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[ostarella]

Well, my home town is slowly closing its doors - or at least it feels that way. The Ford dealership is closing - the owner's retiring - and the Chrysler dealership will no longer be Chrysler; whether they'll stay in business after they run through their inventory I don't know.

And in other news - more American businesses are shipping their jobs overseas.

Is there something wrong with this picture?

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[beckyblack]

I saw some local news report the other day about a place I used to live before the house I live at now. It used to have a load of small shops, clustered together, all thriving. They've nearly all closed. It was so sad.

I worry about the international firms with big sites here, since they've got no real loyalty to this country. If it suits them to close a plant here and take it to India, or somewhere cheaper, they'll do it without a second thought. There's a big Nissan plant that's an important part of our local economy in this region and yet that could go tomorrow if it suited Nissan.