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Originally Posted by BigDan
It wasn't like all the people that left were originally from there. It wasn't like people packed up their family and headed to Detroit for the weather and schools. They only reason why people moved there was to find work in the American automotive industry, which now packed has its shit up and hopped the borders to Canado and Mexico to cut costs, so the workers left and followed the money elsewhere like the gulf cost oil industry. Its a very sad. I wish there would of been a way to sweeten the deal with automakers so they could of continued to build cars in the USA instead of side steeping regulations and taxes by moving where the long arm of uncle same couldn't reach them.
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BigDan has got most of it. Any possibility labor unions/health care/benefits/pensions had anything to do with the disappearing manufacturing jobs?