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Demsrule86

(71,177 posts) Fri Mar 20, 2020, 09:39 PM Mar 2020

My son works for one of the big three in autos...he was sent home today...laid off and [View all]

no return date. This means huge job losses in parts plants and other industry...I am in Ohio...hubs will be laid off until GM comes back... they will work one week full pay and the second reduced pay and then laid off no return date...scary situation. Not everyone can work from home...getting ugly out there. I don't see how we have an economy when this is over...Will we have another great depression?

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My son works for one of the big three in autos...he was sent home today...laid off and [View all] Demsrule86 Mar 2020 OP

Yes. Only much, much bigger. James48 Mar 2020 #1

We're locked into WW3 at this point HarlanPepper Mar 2020 #13

The Trump economy keithbvadu2 Mar 2020 #2

This just got real damn quick. Wellstone ruled Mar 2020 #3

We won't have a job within a week or two at the most...unemployment...but for how long...and the Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #4

Looks like Ford just pulled a 15.4 billion line of credit Wellstone ruled Mar 2020 #6

Every day, it just gets worse. Initech Mar 2020 #5

The economic horridness is just starting uponit7771 Mar 2020 #7

Yup. And the economy has that horrid domino effect. lunatica Mar 2020 #9

Unless we stop shutting stuff down we could be looking at the GREATEST depression Calculating Mar 2020 #8

I expect shooting wars soon HarlanPepper Mar 2020 #10

Let's hope the next Administration has the new shovel ready jobs lunatica Mar 2020 #12

Just think, President Obama handled two pandemics and a near depression and Blue_true Mar 2020 #11