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I find I can argue either side here. If GM closes a single auto plant, that does have a significant impact on that locale because so many people are out of wor
by bmj 16y ago
I find I can argue either side here. If GM closes a single auto plant, that does have a significant impact on that locale because so many people are out of work in a single stroke (see PGH when the steel industry died). 1000 small businesses shuttering their windows across the country still leaves quite a few people unemployed, but the ripple effects may not be as debilitating to each community.
- stretchwithme 16y agoWhen we make decisions and they don't work out, we must bear the consequences. We choose where to live and what work to do. Its a shame but its not a justification for making other people, who nothing to do with making those decisions, suffer the consequences.
- bmj 16y agoI agree--I was simply exploring another side to the argument.
- philwelch 16y agoCommunities are a means to an end. If a manufacturing plant town in Michigan loses a GM plant, let the people move out to other communities where they need to hire people. Don't tax successful communities to prop it up. We've had ghost towns in this country before.