[MichaelP]

The Tech center has been where the brunt of white collar job losses have occured. We have a close friend who lost her job there when they declared bankruptcy; she had 34 years. Everyone here seems to hate GM, at least the bailout. I agree that 90% of GM’s problems stemmed from UAW largesse. but the non-union white collar workers are the ones that really got screwed. I wouldn't want to impugn your shadenfreude though...

Mike

[cripplecreek]

I’ve always had mixed feelings on the bailout. The real issue with this one was the control seized by Obama. My neighbor saw the writing on the wall and got out of Chrysler about 5 years ago.

[equaviator]

“the non-union white collar workers are the ones that really got screwed.”

Yes, and among those are/were seasoned highly skilled design and engineering professionals. We were told (Pelosi) to embrace our misfortune and that here we have the opportunity to develop or reinvent ourselves as artists, musicians, poets and writers of the next great American novel, which added major insult to injury. But in hers and their minds they were showing us where to find this new light in the midst of the darkness they helped to create.

I for one, involuntarily rejected that notion because when you like the work you do in your chosen profession and some elderly broad representing her district in San Francisco, CA is suggesting that you should give it up for being a loser...well, it just rubs you the wrong way like a stranger on a crowded street. You want to say, “Get it off of me!”