Video:Carrier employees reaction to their layoff, jobs moving to Mexico.

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

"Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back,
to your hometown"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6LABdHtkUA

Da boss sang about it while the rest of us were pretending nothing was happening.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by MrPots

Da boss sang about it while the rest of us were pretending nothing was happening.

Yep, that song came out in 1983.

That shows you how long we have been in decline.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Yep, that song came out in 1983.

That shows you how long we have been in decline.

Damn! Time really flies.

1983 The third year of Reagan first term and 11 years after Nixon went to China.