The Last Truck...

This is the title of an HBO Documentary "The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant" about a GMC truck plant in Ohio that closed on December 23, 2008. The documentary narrator points out that this date is two days before Christmas. One of the first people they interview about their feelings on the plant closing is a man driving away in his truck, "Merry fuckin' Christmas, see ya."

It goes on to chronicle the demise of a factory that built trucks, SUVs, and mini-vans that were just no longer saling for profit. The city of Moraine, Ohio, where the plant was located employed thousands of people and the existence of the plant created 5-7 additional jobs in the community for every one job at the factory. This town (from what I could tell in the documentary) was built around the factory. Without it, its livelihood would perish.

I remember back at the beginning of the bailout, my universal disgust for the concepts and ideologies of capitalism, I wished for the downfall of the "Big 3" car corporations and many other corporations who had been caught in the economic turmoil of 2008. Afterall capitalism preaches that if your business fails, well then that is God's providence and your success just was not meant to be. I realized soon after that though, that at least the "Big 3" were too big to fail. Watching the documentary, just reminded me of that. I was left wondering throughout the documentary, "What will happen to these people?" "Where will they find new jobs?" "Where could they take their manufacturing job skills when factories were closing all over the U.S. and new manufacturing jobs go overseas?"

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Recently the Great Council of Washington D.C. and the Great Father came to a realization that America has to reestablish a manufacturing core in order to rebuild our economy. I am in awe of such wisdom.

Maybe they will act on it...