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Tag: COBRA

So you're proud of this, huh?

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Tue Feb 17, 2009 at 07:44:50 AM EST
Tags: Cherry, Delphi, COBRA, unemployment (all tags)

"I think she's got a strong record."

--Lieutenant Governor John Cherry, Detroit Free Press, January 14, 2009

Governor Jennifer Granholm has "laid a strong groundwork for the state's future, and he'll be happy to run on the Democratic governor's record," according to a January 14th article in the Ivory Tower succinctly titled - Cherry: I'll run on Granholm's record

By way of reminder.

Now open today's newspapers, across the state, and be dumbfounded. Now, yeah, there are rotten stories in the papers every day these last six-plus years and the numbers can get so ugly we almost become anesthetized to them. Familiarity breeds contempt, and all of that jazz. So its understandable if you read news like that in this morning's Ivory Tower announcing the fresh firings of 775 moms and dads at Delphi in mid-Michigan. 425 line workers and 350 diverse, white collar "jobs of tomorrow."

The white-collar layoffs are in all departments, including engineering, purchasing, manufacturing and sales. Before the cuts, Delphi's steering division had 3,600 employees.

Those are big numbers. Again. Just like yesterday and the day before that and last week and on and on they go, sort of like My Chemical Romance's "Black Parade." But you're exposed to that sort of depressing news long enough and it starts to get stale.

Job losses can feel almost clinical. The battle to find a new job and to provide for your family? Maybe its because I've got parents and nine younger siblings who are trying to make it in this economy, maybe its because I woke up on the sad side of the bed or maybe its because I'm a sap, but stories like the one we find in this morning's Muskegon Chronicle, about the almost overwhelming difficulty of finding employment... they kick my butt like an escalating unemployment counter never could.

Read on...

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