Wreck of the UAW
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I am spending the Thanksgiving weekend with my friends and family. We are currently lapsing into our turkey comas. It has been a long week for me. I have been ensconced in front of a TV equipped with cable. Big doings in this neck of the woods. As I sit tonight 11:20 on mid November Monday night Andy Provenzano is telling us that an artic chill will be here by Thanksgiving. We are right now within twenty-five miles from where they used to build oldsmobiles. GM has announced the layoffs of thirty thousand employees. I sit in a bedroom community of Lansing Michigan. Our Governor is promising funds to help train for jobs of the future that won't be shipped overseas. Bless her for understanding our greatest fears. I would like to be able to point my finger at her but I am not a man in the know. Many of the people that I grew up with are going to be affected. Michael Moore would be pissed if this were Flint Michigan. In a musty old hall in Detroit no one is praying, the bell won't chime but once for the UAW Local 520. The sadness and strife will also affect people in Oklahoma and Tennessee among other places. I don't know much of anything about their communities but I can envision the stress this will put on a portion of the American community that is already quivering from the specter of a possible bird flu epidemic. The holidays will be sparse for the heartlands. But then again we are at war. With that all said I consider the opinion that I have a lot to be thankful for. I could express a litany of people I need to mention and make this a trite letter to my family and friends. Instead please remember you, know who you are, and so do we. Which brings me back to my favorite topic of dissertation. I was alarmed at the talks I have heard of quarantines and surveillance in anticipation of a bird flu epidemic.(oh yeah- check out the stock symbol RHHBY.PK. THEY ARE MAKING A BUCK ON THE SCARE. If you come to my neighborhood please remember that I am respectfully declining the opportunity to participate in your "little fire drill". I mean you no harm but please respect my rights as a United States citizen and leave my brethren and me alone. TWR