In Flint, a town with double-digit employment, displaced auto worker Jonathan Turbush(ph) led off a discussion on the economy.

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How far removed is that from the world of the out-of-work auto worker?

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Now, I don't think this is the best option just because we just talked to an auto worker over here -- that's hard work.

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If the laid off auto worker in Detroit, or the high school student in Little Rock, or the former textile marketer in Greensboro, N.

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That's why he marched with the white auto worker in Detroit.

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That Cerberus was able to garner support from the three unions represented on the DaimlerChrylser board -- the Canadian Auto Worker's Union, Germany's IG Metall, and the UAW -- is a marked achievement.

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We're also considered middle class and it seems like they keep constantly wanting to take it away from the auto worker and prosecuting us, instead of the corporate that brought us to this.

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Or the auto worker in Toledo who was laid off his job and couldn't figure out how he was going to support his family, and had to have that conversation with his kids explaining how dad is out of work right now and so we're going to have to tighten our belts, and we're not sure we're going to make the mortgage payments.

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Should that loss have to be reported to the FEC on a dollar-per-auto-worker-vote basis?

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It is hard to overstate how revolutionary that rope and Andon board were for the auto industry: Allowing a mere blue-collar worker to stop the line would have been heresy in Detroit a few decades ago, as managers were more concerned about keeping up volume than quality.

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