After all, ALL of the "rust belt" states, including previously red states such as Indiana and Ohio, and others hard hit by the economic downturn such as North Carolina and Virginia, went Democratic, and the GOP can just about forget it if they are going to shit all over a major industry which directly and indirectly involves literally millions and millions of jobs.
It can't be allowed to happen--EVER.
Remember this, and tattoo it on your forehead:
When workers, execs, engineers, dealers, salesmen and suppliers are all factored in, the Big Three employ 3 million people who contribute $21 billion a year to Social Security and Medicare, and $25 billion in federal income taxes. Add in all the businesses that depend on the auto industry, and we are talking about one-tenth of the U.S. labor force.
As columnist Tom Piatak of Chronicles and Takimag.com writes, 850,000 retirees, and their families, depend for pensions and health care on the Big Three. If they go under, the burden falls on us.
And to let the auto industry die is to write America out of much of the economic future of the planet.
Add to that millions and millions of other workers employed by other industries and businesses dependent on cities where auto manufacturing is a primary employer. Not to mention state and local governments and school districts dependent on the tax base of these workers. It's the domino effect, and it would kill our country.
It would plunge the country into another Great Depression.
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