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• Friday, December 12, 2008 07:30 PM

  Greeting from the frontline of the Motor City

  It's fairly difficult to underestimate the amount of fear and panic taking place here. Our economy has been very depressed for well over two decades now, but the dissolution of the American Auto Industry would fairly decimate us because a large bulk of the 3 million jobs that would be lost are located here.

  This evening on the local news a woman was interviewed who just lost her job at a Chrysler plant -- she has five kids, one of whom is disabled. I find it impossible to imagine the fear this woman is experiencing as she tries think of ways to provide for her family, and during the holidays, as if things weren't tough enough. It's not like she can just go out and find another job: there quite simply are no jobs. Businesses are simply not investing in this state, and what little investment we have will leave if and when the Big Three collapse.

  Seriously, it makes me so angry when I read some of the spiteful, ignorant and uncaring statements being thrown around by people who have NO IDEA what is at stake for everyday, hard working people who are just trying to take care of their families. And this is what makes me sick about the Southern squad of Good 'Ol Boys. Someone called them "Confederates" and I thought this was so appropriate. These are men that are out for nothing more than their own state interests -- not the interest of the nation -- and even more so, they are out to stroke the interests of their own political careers and their anti-union political ideologies, which the American people clearly revolted against with the result of this past election.

  Pick up a history book and think about it: Do we really want to return to pre-union working conditions? Granted, unions are not without their faults, but without their efforts we would all be working 14 hour days, without breaks, and in unsafe working conditions. There would be no vacations, and no benefits. So many people take these things for granted that it's easy for them to act smart and run their mouths, but I'd like to see how they would survive a day here.

  These corrupted Confederate turncoats aim to do nothing more than advance their own political success on the broken back of American workers.

  —EvieLeigh Read EvieLeigh's other letters
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