Cities face life without 16 Ford plants

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"We were working double shifts and making 58 cars an hour, Thunderbirds and Cougars," says Wargo, 70, a retired Ford Motor Co. worker who put in 40 years, mostly as a maintenance electrician. "I feel sorry for the younger generation, because they won't see what really happened there."

It's been nearly a year since this Lake Erie port city of 68,000 began wrestling with its reality of a future without Ford. It's a future other American cities face now that the company plans to close 16 plants by 2012, some in places already hit hard by the loss of steel and other factory jobs.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2006-12-10-ford-cities_x.htm

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Because of health care costs, cheaper labor elsewhere, and the stupidty

of Ford & G.M.

But they will keep marketing American cars but they will be built elsewhere.


This really is a hammer to middle class America.

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