Detroit Gets Slamed Again

Alec Baldwin spouted off in the Huffington Post about how we should “pull the plug” on Detroit and the Big 3.

Alec should try to be funny and stop trying to be the mouthpiece for the far left and bash Middle America. He knows very little about what we are going through in this region.

First off, most of the workers of what’s left of the Big 3 now are routinely doing multiple jobs that still need to be done to get parts and cars produced for this country. I know this; I’m not just speculating like Alec does. Our extended department had at one time 11 people… today we have 3… and the work didn’t change. As a matter of fact, we even took on other work that wasn’t being done as those workers took buy outs or retired.

Do you know the difference between a recession and a depression? A recession is when you’re neighbor is out of work… a depression is when you’re out of work. Right now I have several family and friends that feel the depression. But I’m lucky… I still have my job and I’m not bitter for staying, but I am disappointed when I hear guys like him bad mouth Detroit and the auto industry, even though they have no clue what it’s really like.

What’s it really like? A few weeks ago, the I-696 freeway was closed down in both directions because some guy was trying to end his life. He had recently lost his job as auto worker and didn’t know how he was going to feed his family or pay the bills. After more then 10 hours he was talked out of jumping. This is the kind of real America that Alec known nothing of.

He thinks that he knows what’s best for America. What a hypocrite… in one breath he spouts off saying that he only drives a Toyota Prius because it is a hybrid and saves fuel, while in the next breath he flies back and forth across the country in a private plane each week to film his TV show. Wow, how many miles does he need to drive in that Prius to make up for jet just one of those private plane junkets from NY to LA.

Thanks but no thanks Alec; I choose not to listen to what you say. By the way, what are you still doing in these United States…? I thought you said four years ago that you would move to Canada if Bush got re-elected? I guess you just simply didn’t listen to yourself either.