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Originally Posted by Mr. Clean
LenA, you are not the first person to find yourself amongst the unemployed/underemployed. Others have found themselves "down-sized", "right-sized", "out sourced", "layed off" etc. and ad nauseum and never have I seen the amount "bail me and my company out" posts. Why do those in the auto industry seem to feel that they are entitled to their jobs moreso than others?
On another note, it sounds like Bush has moved to increase unemployment benefits by an additional 7 weeks and top of the existing 13 week extension.
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And for your information, since 2000, the number of direct auto company and tier one and tier two supplier jobs lost already numbers in the
hundreds of thousands, with the growth in jobs by the transplants significantly less - under 50,000 since 2000., for a net loss of jobs. That doesn't include the service industry losses from people who have lost jobs and businesses as these companies have closed nearby plants. Name another industry that had downsized that many people.