Awesome vid. Their downtown train system reminds me of Buffalos. 3 miles long with 13 stops with future plans to expand that never happened. But even they knew not to put it through main street.
Cant wait for the full version.
If someone has a vimeo account could you please ask the author if he had to wait for the streets to be that empty or is it common to see downtown street that bare?
wow only one county has 1.9% and below and that’s in north dakota
Yeah, except I don’t really want to produce a product (milk) for $15.00/cwt and sell it for $11.00/cwt. I mean the govt does throw in like $.50/cwt to help.:bloated:
Edit: Good thing all of those jobs lost in Detroit were only manufacturing jobs, we have been told over and over that we don’t need those. Here is a little mind blower I have mentioned before: 51,000 plants have closed in the USA since 2000. Yeah, that’s right 51,000!
source?
I don’t know I read it somewhere, Alliance for American Manufacturing maybe.
i beleive it…
on my home computer i have some research from a couple years ago showing the number of mass lay-off events in the US over a period of time… it was astounding and the information was readily available on the net… i probably have a link or two somewhere.
there are thousands of mass lay-off events (50 or more people at a time) per year in the US for years in a row… and when you consider most businesses actually employ less than 50 anyways it’s even more startling.
found something: http://www.bls.gov/mls/
http://www.losangeleschronicle.com/articles/view/133078
“The Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) today praised the Obama Administration’s new “Framework for Revitalizing American Manufacturing.” The document comes at a crisis moment for the nation’s industrial sector, which has lost more than 5 million jobs and 51,000 factories over the past decade.”
Thanks. That is a pretty outstanding number. ~16.24 factory closings per US county. I doubt it accounts for start-ups though. I would imagine the number for restaurants is a lot higher.
It is a total shame we are losing our industrial base and therefore our economical base.
Revolution here we come!
Not until the supermarkets are empty and/or a loaf of bread is $100.
It kills me when DC is bragging that fewer people are getting laid-off. I have laid-off everyone I can, if I lay-off anymore I might as well shut the doors. So the real reason is not necessarily that things are getting better it is just that companies are hanging on by a thread and can not function with fewer people.
That being said we have had some decent oreders lately but we are still miles away from hiring.