RedWingFan wrote:Well I'm born and raised in Flint, Michigan (former home of General Motors) Plants have been closing left and right here since the late 70's. How did GWB cause that? Does that qualify me to know the Corporate world that you've deemed yourself the all knowing expert of?

No it doesn't, because there apparently were enough other jobs to absorb many of those workers in that area for several years because if not I'd think you'd know it. Most of those workers probably had to flip burgers, deliver pizzas, and wash cars. But what the hell, the unemployment figures looked good, right?
Flint and Detroit are metropolitan areas. Many, if not most, of the areas of the country that are being effected now are rural communities with only towns or small cities where the majority of the jobs are.
When these plant closings happen in small cities and towns surrounded by rural areas such as are the norm in the Midwest and south there are no other industries or small business jobs to absorb the displaced.
When a company that employs 1,000 of a community of 10,000 closes so do many of the small businesses in that area. People can't buy cars and appliances, shop at the local shops, eat in local restaurants, or even pay a car wash if they don't have jobs, so those business's close too. No new ones replace them because there is no revenue base for that community.
I could understand that someone who's never lived outside a metropolitan area, or in a small community that's within commuting distance of one, wouldn't be able to understand the plight of the thousands of people whose livelihoods were based on industries that are far away from any metropolitan area if there was no information to the contrary available, but
DAMN people this is the information age. Are you so couched in your faulty philosophy that you're afraid to venture far enough out of your comfort zones to look for reality?