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[Carmen Harlan, our veteran Detroit news anchor, said that on NBC national news tonight.]
Not just for "Detroit" in the metaphorical sense of "the auto industry," but for the actual geographical Detroit Metro area, and for the state of Michigan. We still are VERY focused on the auto industry, and a huge percentage of our jobs still are auto jobs.
We are shutting down our auto plants now. We want a loan, so that we can open them up again later, when people can buy cars again.
So many people still have nasty cartoonish delusions. If you read through the Salon posts for the past week, you can learn the truth, but it's too much to post here and now.
We unemployed auto industry software people are about to move to your parts of the country, with our great resumes and experience, and our need for employment. And we will take your jobs at half your pay, and do four times as much work. That's what we are good at. And you will wish you had made it possible for us to stay in Detroit. Good luck to you.
You will not even be able to get jobs cutting our grass, because we will not be able to afford lawns.
