Submitted by Guest461 (not verified) on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 12:50pm.
I hate to see businesses lost and really hate to see local folks lose their jobs, but look at this. A new car costs as much as a nice piece of land nowadays. 30, 40, 60 thousand dollars is fairly common to pay for a new car. Chryslers resale value has always been horrible where as, a year old a dodge truck will barely fetch half of it's original selling price. In a town like we live in where the average income is less than 30k/year, how does one buy a 50 thousand dollar car? Go deeeep into debt!!! What's also odd is that we have $15/hr wage earners trying to buy cars made by people making $75/hr. Sorry, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why this mountain caved in...it was hollow!!! It'going to be a very long time before things get back to where they were, if they ever do. Hopefully at some point, the power of the people will really make a difference in how things are done rather that the government forcing it upon us. Until that happens, get used to seeing these sorts of headlines as a daily digest.
What should you really expect?