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Originally Posted by ebacon
I was just reminiscing about the good old days, such as the early 1980s when Detroit was still at least halfway glued together right. Then I thought about Nashville and how much it changed after GM built the Spring Hill plant. They were on pins and needles a few years ago when GM was deciding whether to close the plant.
Big business is like a drug. When you are in it it feels good, but the withdrawal is a bitch when the drug dealer moves to another town.
It's best to just not get wrapped up in it in the first place IMO. I have deep respect for agriculturual communities and hope they hold onto them as long as they can.
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It is a double edged sword. When I think of the early '80s, I still hear the line, ".....United States Steel has announced that it will cease all operations in the Youngstown district over the next three years. By 1984, this will bring the total loss of steel jobs in the valley since Black Friday* to 27,000."
After hearing that, I went straight to the recruiters office and joined the Navy.
The eighties were hard times for some parts of this country. Very hard.
(*Black Friday was in 1977, when Youngstown Sheet & Tube declared bankruptcy and laid off 4,600.)
Dave