[lbo-talk] recession severity

[John Thornton]

andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> The GM Main plant in Ypsilanti, the Ford River Rouge
> plant, the Chrysler plant in Warren, all gone. Of
> coursed all those plants in Flint that Michael Moore
> documented in Roger & Me. 

River Rouge isn't gone, it's still Ford's largest factory. 6000 people 
work there.
There are 5 plants with the Dearborn Truck facility being the largest.
They sold the steel plant to a Russian firm but it too is still there 
staffed by UAW local 600.
Certainly it isn't as much used at it once was but it is still there.
One can tour the facility with staff from the Henry Ford Museum.
It's the site of the largest "living roof".

Yes, Detroit is a disaster and going through great parts of are are like 
visiting a ghost town.

John Thornton