Yeah I used to live in Rochester and shelby township. Massive auto industry still. My ex wife's dad owns a machine shop and still, 80% of his business is the automotive industry..
You want to hear a horror story, try getting paid by GM or any of the other big manufacturers. He says you're lucky if you get paid within a year of delivering the product..
People are laying blame in the wrong place many times. All china (or any Chinese company) did was accept a job. If these giant billion dollar corporations would stop selling out their own people to make a few extra dollars, it wouldn't be a problem.
When for every 1 laborer, you have 3 or 4 useless fuckwits behind a desk. No wonder they are bleeding money.. how many people working there who have NEVER touched a car part, make 10 x or more the money of a laborer who busts his ass every day..
The corporate world is fucked. Lots of the shit that goes on shouldn't even be legal. From an outsider's perspective, it's not surprising when these guys go bankrupt. Or to jail, or get a bailout.
China didn't steal our jobs man, we gave them to China in trade for lazy fat Rich corporate shills that sell everything out for another penny in their pocket. Who horde their riches and pay their employees a wage that equates to poverty.
The world is fucked man, we are just along for the ride. And people ask me why I dont vote...