Posted on 12/27/2018 12:39:32 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Isn’t Flint now a no go zone for non-jihadis
Is Porky Moore going to apply?
Moore is worth $500M.
Headline reenforces the devastatingly false premise that jobs are a commodity.
My father worked for 35 years at the Industrial Ave plant 31 that became part of Buick city. The plant he worked at was the site of the sit down strike that birthed the UAW. The cause of the sit down strike was poor working conditions and low wages. Looks like full circle to me.
How so?
I was just looking at google maps at the sight of this new factory, where my fathers factory was is a flat nothing. But, his old local, 599 is still there.
Boy, is Michael Moore gonna be pissed. Some of his whining fodder will be diminished.
A little off topic, but the old Packard plant in Detroit was featured om “Mysteries Of The Abandoned” a while ago. It was so interesting! I suppose it’s too delapidated to be converted to a functioning plant again, but the plant was built with some futuristic ideas for that era.
Prolly not he has a million dollar mansion on Torch Lake.
I saw that, that is a very cool place. Just north east of this new Lear plant, which is small by most automotive plant standards, anyway, just near it is the site of the old Cheverolet final assembly plant where in the 60’s Impalas were made, I believe that is where Chevy made the Corvettes, only the first year.
I was born in Flint in 55, the city was a thriving place until about the time i graduated high school in 73, i went active duty in 75, never looked back. Flint has been in a state of decay ever since.
Perhaps you're thinking of Dearbornistan, home of the largest Muslim population in the United States?
Have you ever read the book “Rivethead”? I’m curious if it squares with your memories.
I have not read that, who is the author?
I did some searching and reading, sounds like an accurite account. Ben, the author worked at the truck plant on the south side of flint, i left flint in mid 1970’s, his accounting is 1980’s through 1991. I believe he has a great book, i will look for it.
I get it that there is lots of new Lear opportunities in Flint and I grateful to God for them. I hope they make a lot of great products!
I thought that I had read that they had also moved in to Flint.
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