IM HERE PRAYING THAT THE PATRIOTS OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY WILL STAND UP AND UNITE IN 2024 AND TAKE AMERICA BACK I FEAR IF WE DONT WE ARE GOING TO LOSE THIS ONCE GREAT COUNTRY FOR EVER WAKE UP AMERICA PLEASE
This video just came to me today !! 😢 It's a Wonderful example of what happens under democrat-led leadership. It was an intentional kill of Industry that supported this state!!! 😢 Now their plan is to kill off every state in the U.S. just like MI. 😢 I wonder if thats what It's going to take to wake the dumb-ass Am. up to the evil going on in this country ??? WAKE THE F**K UP AMERICA!!! 😢😢😢
@@nathand8300 No, there's not enough blame to go around even if we stretch it thin. This is the result of electing liberals. Liberals compromise on every good policy and always sympathize and support enemies of the U.S.
Hello 👋 Trish. How are you doing? Hope you are fine. I'm Mark Clifford and am from Denver Colorado, where are you from? You seem like a real country girl
This song/video brings tears to my eyes. The men and women who built this country are treated like this in real life. We should raise up and praise those who came before us, who gave us the freedom we get to enjoy. Thank you John Rich for telling this story!
Very true! I am also a farmer and a trucker, and you are 100% Right! They are destroying everything the working class has built and giving it to a bunch of Damn Freeloaders!
Grew up in St John's Michigan moved to Texas in 81 Auto industry was on a steady decline from the late 70's " oil crisis" my dad worked 30+ at Motor Wheel , I was working there in 78 and got laid off they were getting people with 25 +
Im in Michigan too, my dad works for a car plant, my grandpas both made cars or car parts, my great grandpas too. There will be new union negotiations woth stelantis soon. I hope our auto industrey doesnt get worse again, or ends up needing too go through woth the strike.
First plan on the new world order Georgia Guidestones is for 93% of all people to be disappeared. (That includes blacks, whites, Mexicans, earlier inhabitors, Christians, Asians and more...and even most Democrats.) Isaiah 65:12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. John 1:5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
There were days that I would blare this song from my car, wondering if my hometown would ever recover. I started as a contract worker for Ford in 2002 and was laid off in 2010. My dad worked for GM for 17 years before his group was cut. My father in law worked for a tier 1 supplier for 25 years and wasn't spared. Around 2009-2011, it was a dark time here in Detroit, and no one paid attention because we were all a bunch of "overpaid slob factory workers". No one could understand that we were family men, working to earn our keep, watching the jobs go overseas and in some cases, training our H1B replacements. To this day, I love this song. Dad is back to work at GM. Father in law retired after working for Gleaners Food Bank. And I'm a Paramedic. You can't shut Detroit down. We might not come back as clean or glamorous as before, but we'll come back. Thank you for this song. It still means a lot to me, and to the millions of affected Detroiters still fighting to come back.
@@jenniferevans4785 jajaja as if Trump cares about us Hoi Polloi blue collar boys. He's a New York billionaire. I refused to vote for him in 16 and he 100% earned my vote in 20. Him being better than 99% of politicians doesn't make his shits smell like roses. The average wages these UAW workers received for B/C quality work without fear of firing was crazy! In 1980, these workers got $16-22 (the average UAW worker received a little more than double the salary of an average factory worker and did less work) an hour plus benefits! Look me in the face and tell me I deserve to be paid $70 an hour as a B quality night shift factory worker. That is 3 to 6 times (WITH INFLATION) the salary of a night shift CNA (my former job I am not allowed to perform) I make the same base pay as a guy with a couple decades experience in 1980 in 2022
I love this song and I think that my hometown Detroit has come back big time and the lions are about to put the city on their backs and win a superbowl n the next couple years
And those of us across the river in Canada that have worked to help supply for those of you working in Detroit automotive we understand and have been affected too. I still come back to this song and remind people of this especially when the same stuff is going on again with bailouts and bonuses 2020-present
Sorry to hear that. Hopefully he has support with a pension. He is still young for SS. Hopefully you all are doing OK. That's a long time with a company. Good for him putting all those years in. It sucks what the outcomes are, but he will be OK 🙂
@@christimecarmona6810 he found a job, not making too much less than he was before. So he's pretty grateful for that. His old company didn't offer a pension. The old company took a little while longer to shut down than anticipated, so he was still employed until the middle of September.
Thanks for telling these boys stories!!! I'm a third generation miner, they all worked in coal before me, but the mines shut down in 2016 and 600 guys lost good jobs! Dad and I were lucky enough to snag a job at an underground limestone mine. God bless all ya'll hard working American men
This song has been relevant for 12 years, it’s just that Americans (at least some of us) are finally waking up to reality. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.
The song is already relevant greedy politicians corrupt politicians big money running the world well little people are out of money so now what are they going to do I hope I live alone to see it. I see revolution what does anybody else see?
Wow ! This is what’s happening, still. I lost my job after years of dedicated work. So hard when your older. Tx John for writing lyrics that speak the Truth!!
sailfish Yep, I’d like to speak to fellas like John Rich in these lame times- there’s a few that understand what the powers that be are really after...EFF them
Ya, how people who loved this song now support Trump! What a traitorous turn around that is...Trump is selling make believe and we don't buy that here. I don't care if you are Dem/Rep/what race/what religion, Trump is livin' it up with the little money farmers and hard workers have and....people keep waving their Trump flags. It is disgusting....oh and let's not forget that he was accused of raping two preteens - great character. Why aren't people 'fightin' mad' about that??????
@@kesa7669 because it's fake news your spreading, Trump has sanctioned china and is bringing jobs back into the US. On the other side 8 years of obama and biden is the reason detroit is shut down
More cheaper mortgages and car loans that we get a decent deal and make our % return at least 1% above inflation and the official % rates set by the central bank.
Bailouts should be given to employees in the firm of PPP. BAILOUTS SHOULD BE A LOAN OR GOVT BUY STOCK WITH THE REWUIREMENT THAT THERE WILL BE NO STOCK BUY BACK. IF THE CORPORATIONS BUY STOCK BUY BACK, THE GOVT WILL IMPOSE A 25% FINE. HOW ABOUT THAT
@@redarmysoja we’ve got the same here in the uk .politicians and scumbag money men sold the uk down the river to the highest bidder I’m for gettin em all swinging in the streets ❤❤❤.
Especially when they vote. People nowadays are living in a different reality. Trump 2024... bring back manufacturers to the USA and will last longer anyway.. built better.. I'm old enough to remember if u spent a LITTLE more it would last 20 years not 2. And could replace a part occasionally it would last longer. That's what trump was about. And sooooo much more
This is a damn good song that I didn't know about until a few months ago. It's a shame that the message still holds true, if not even more now! This is a real song for real working-class folks!
First plan on the new world order Georgia Guidestones is for 93% of all people to be disappeared. (That includes blacks, whites, Mexicans, earlier inhabitors, Christians, Asians and more...and even most Democrats.) Isaiah 65:12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. John 1:5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
i felt that way when i got let go at pratt and whitney aircraft payroll department winter 1992. i worked with very good people. the were so good that they surprised me with a pot luck luncheon and gifted me a shirt with my name on it and the words prince of payroll. and i knew very little about hourly salary paymaster and retirement services i had to learn from the nuts and bolts and a few view of aircraft jet engines and i had the pleasure to help others on team payroll wherever i could. i learned a lot. i used my information technology skills and problems solving abilities i did my best with the best and dealt with the not heads and a couple of dim wits but that is life. i got lucky. i knew i was on the chopping block a day before it happened my co-worker called me first to go to a class for him because he had to take his daughter back to college from a winter break and we were having a major snow event. i said no problem we are a part of team payroll who came from it to help support moving from a home grown payroll system methodology to and bought payroll package. we were brought it from different it teams to work with the payroll it teams the payroll specialists in hourly salary and every one to make pwa payroll to run. mike said he had to check with the bosses and would call me back. after he got approval. he called me back in the evening and said he did not get approval because they wanted everyone in the office. that was my clue that i would be one of the pwa- people walking away from pratt and whitney aircraft up up and away into the wild blue yonder. i had lots of time to think about it. i knew the lead of hourly payroll was a decorated vietnam war veteran was going to the highest pay grade to be let go. he knew his job and tolerated no bs especially anyone who did not know their job and that included management. i did not see the happening when the director of finance told mr. godbout that he was let go. i suspect some words that could make a us navy sailor blush blood red were said and security escorted him to his desk to pack up personal belongings a vacate the building. i was the next highest ranked labor grade to go. i think my dad"s dutch commando experience came into play. i took it like a man and accepted that my number was up. i bit my tongue and shook the directors hand and that i understood it was a numbers game and that's the way it goes. i wished him well and was escorted to a conference room to discuss mandatory transition procedures and service. i accepted there was help to navigate my first let go from a job. i was dismissed but when i saw others from the team and the bitterness in their eyes or was it headlights in a deer's eyes, i stayed to ease the shock and pain of joblessness worthless and self doubt and why me . i guess i pulled up my big boy panties that were below my prince of payroll shirt and had to carry the emotion that was gifted and given by team members. i cried on the inside there are going to be uncomfortable changes that's life get one and deal with. it is over 30 years now. and as generic cousin hank williams jr sings a country boy can survive. i did and hopefully i am a better man. only god knows and i will have to deal with it on judgement day when god transitions me from american with life earth citizenship to whatever god has in store for life after earth.
Music video definitely gets me every time. My grandpa who is 78 years old worked out in the oil fields for 40 years at the same place just gettin by. Loved his job. One day a year or so back they just fired him one day because he could be replaced by someone younger and cheaper. Spent a good 6 months on the verge of losing the farm. It's not much that we have here but the man has been here all his life and was born in the bedroom he sleeps in. But i have to thank god because it worked out. He ended up getting a job with an old friend of his at another lease his friend owns. Still fills me with a mix of pain and anger for how the world is nowadays. Makes me fear what I'll see in my lifetime and what kind of world my daughter will be living in.
This song should have been as big as Alan Jackson's "Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning". Absolutely crisp, bitter and John delivers his star punch.
My dad worked for gm for 50 years and he was still working during the bankruptcy and when he got layed off for almost a year I introduced him to this song and he absolutely loved it. He said this song was so true!
I had 1000 shares of GM which they declared at worthless with their scam bankruptcy... I will NEVER by another GM vehicle... They should have been liquidated to pay all of their creditors and investors... The unions brought it on themselves though with their ridiculous wages for employees who should have just been making minimum wage...
Kris is an amazingly talented musician, writing hits for himself, and others to play. ACM awards, Golden Globe, and so many others. Just a great individual, frankly.
You gotta feel for Detroit, though, cause they still ain't recovered from, what, a one-two punch? The sad part is that there's too many panzy-asses in this country crying because _Big Brother_ ain't doing enough to help.
.....and regardless of the insanely low prices of homes to buy, the property taxes are too high to EVER get the community back up, let alone up AND runnin` ----- $$$$$$$$ that no one has
They keep Trying to.. But They can't .. not even China Understands .. U. S. A. Unless you are U.S.A. No other country . Exp China & Mexico.. They Don't get it... U S A. Is U S A.
John Rich also wrote 'Amarillo Sky', which is a similar message from a farmer's perspective. Great songs, both of them. Thank you, John for still being 'the only John Wayne left in this town'. America First.
It's 2023 just listened and shared what's happening is criminal right now where I live we have weather warfare cast upon us everyday along with everything but I play my guitar paint and keep it real
Mickey Rourke is really great in this video. I think he did this video right after he did the movie "The Wrestler" which I think he should've gotten the Oscar for.
It makes me cry too. But tears of anger. I'm sick of the corruption and greed that's taken over our Country and running us into the ground. I pray everyday that God turns it around soon, and do my best to keep the Faith that He will. It's always darkest before the dawn, but when is our dawn coming, Lord? It's gotten pretty damn dark for crying out loud!
It's not all corruption. Part of it is just free market economics. I haven't given an auto worker money in 31 years and I don't intend to start because their products suck. I don't want a new Dodge truck. My old one works just fine. I also don't want new coat hangers, or new pots, or a new lamp. I don't want soda pop, or velcro, a new TV. There, that much less money for the companies and employees of such who make those things. I do however want and can afford carhartts and diesel fuel. There, I'm supporting some textile and oil workers...for now. You have to make whatever you're working for serve you right now and not count on it being there tomorrow.
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Gabriela Jimenez was videoed outside a nice hotel saying she was enslaved. She said billionaire Carlos Slim knew about it. She saw people eating people. She looked sad, disgusted and in shock as she moved her hands to her mouth while explaining what they were eating. She said “they smelled like humans.” Police took her away & I've read she was never seen again. Gabriela was a little frantic, as would be anybody, and why is she missing now? Is she in a hospital? Why no interviews? Psalm 106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, I've seen at least 7 other people telling of people doing the above “food” activities. At least 4 are connected to the billionaire crowd, and I think all are connected. God's own people were doing Satanism often in the Old Testament. He slaughtered many and booted the rest out of the promised land. He said he would bring them back one day and they would worship him. They recently got their land back but many credible reports say they and their billionaires are still worshiping Satan.
This is my dads depression that my grandfather went through, word for word father 3 kids making a life for his family, man never skipped a beat to raise us, years later I wish I could be the men the father is and grandfather were, I couldn’t even imagine losing something like this, 28 years down the drain start over for a factory worker, to hold a flame to the men of the era is a lost in this generation
I'm a white man with a very beautiful wife and three beautiful children. I'm doing everything to keep us alive. If white privilege is living at poverty level than I'm blessed!!! I just lost my job yesterday and right now no one is hiring!! Yep I have white privilege while others have undeserved welfare or are rich and in politics still getting paid, tell me who has the freaking privilege?!?!
I understand faith don't feed babies but you need to keep it so you don't lose yourself. For what it's worth ill pray for you. The whole white privelege thing is bull crap. If anything there's minority privelege. I lost my promotion I worked at for 7 years to the new guy because of a deversity quota or some crap. It's not fair someone should get a job because of their skin. I wish I could do something to help you
I Worked for a Timber Company for 40 years & Weyerhauser came in and Bought Us Out , Brought 20 of us in a Room & sent us All Home . Youngest Man there had Over 30 Years . Big Company's Have No Heart .
you got to be kidding me please say u are. 30 years lowest man on the totem poll. i find that hard to believe where is the loyalty?was this company union or non union?
Man, what a powerful song... Detroit was once at a population of almost 2 million people. Now it's down to less than 700,000 residents. I've lived here most of my life and I still have a hard time believing that the automotive industry used to pretty much make everything in Detroit and now most things are made in other countries and other states... Detroit has truly lost its middle class. Nowadays, you're either a have, or have not. Great song and great video. I love how they included the Red Wings banner in the bar!
@@stevenunya2182 😎 and more game & fishing than that. I was born & raised in The Blue Ridge till Dad got out of the military. He wasn’t going N2 the belly of a Mtn so we moved to “Taylortucky” when it Was a commerce - somewhat vacant lands & a small forest directly in front of us (now a Poorly Built Cul’de Sac - Ugh !! Anywho No I’ve got LAND after I moved Back to Help Dad & Mom. We get occasional lone wolves. Coyotes? I am Native so they are Hawk & Eagle bait … I had a chicken coup Massacre that was savage & the Survivors were So Traumatized the gals Quite Laying … the 3 Beautiful Crowing Roosters DIED .. trying to Save the Gals & Babies. 2 lil boys Survived & a “friend/ yeah Right” Gave me a Grown Rooster who immediately Became a Brutal Aggressive Bully. 12 Gauge and NO My Greenzone HOME is NOT “ Childproof”. (Wink). Fishing Whitefish, Walleye & Salmon?? I’m in. Back to Topic N2 lol, DETROIT Started SHREDDING with the Longterm **SUPER EMBARRASSING CUSSING OLD MOUTHY MAYOR Decades Ago!! Yeah I’m That *Young lol. GANGSTER *THUG KWAME?? OH Come On !! Murders. That’d “Party at Manoogian *DID Happen!” !!! Wifey went off. Then Thugs traveled down south & straight out Murdered the stripper mom who had a young Son. ………..so i heard. 😎
This song really resonates with me because I grew up in the Detroit area, my father was a tool & die maker who's shop frequently did jobs for the various auto makers in the area (Ford, GM, Chrysler). The union voted against pay cuts to keep the shop going and rather than shore up the income of the employees out of their own pockets the shop owner decided to close the shop and file bankruptcy then re-open the shop as non-union. My father had worked there for over 30 years and as a result of the owner's actions he not only lost his job but he lost his pension too. One of the reasons I try to make sure I don't let greed run my life.
Hello 👋 Dear. How are you doing? Hope you are fine. I'm Mark Clifford and am from Denver Colorado, where are you from? You seem like a real country girl
I’ve been working in Texas Roadhouse for almost 10 long years of my life I always think about moving on forever ,so mr. John rich thank you for playing this song hard working men and women for serving a lot of years
Kris Kristofferson is the older man but some don't know the longer haired guy's name who stood up for him and that would be Mr.Mickey Rourke. Another great actor
thanks for letting us all know that. i been there same as Mickey Rourke the actor as you call him.but i have lived it for real and put my ass on the line for a fellow co worker as well i almost got my own ass fired. this video really hit's home with me.
edwin denk That’s what you are supposed to do! I got robbed of a promotion I worked my fuckin ass off for in a hot tub factory because I didn’t speak English and Spanish, they gave my job, which I had already been doing for months without any extra pay, to a bilingual guy who was begging them not to put him in that position because he didn’t know how to do but 1 of the 7 required jobs to have it. The day I was supposed to get my raise and promotion they had some little Mexican kid say that I was “racist” because I asked him something about El Chapo (he was from the same area where the Sinaloa cartel really fucked shit up) anyway, the second I found out what they did I turned in my notice and three other men with families to support walked off the job over it to support me the day I left. Ultimately the best we could figure it cost them about $70,000 just in lost production to make that mistake. That was three years ago and to this day the guy they gave my raise to still only knows how to do his one little job. So don’t ever be afraid to do what’s right, it’ll always work out when you do. I found a job managing an entire dump truck company the day after I quit and ended up bringing two of the other three to work for me there for about $5 more an hour and paid on a salary instead of $10.50 an hour.
Yeah, people know it's Mickey Rourke. The way people know is because besides Kenny Rogers, Mickey Rourke got the worst facelift of any man in Hollywood.
@@carolynthomason7360 I have to say the exact same even more so after my great grandparent went through a lot including Siberia now its left to my twat of a generation aside from the obesity phone fixation addiction levels etc we are useless to stand up for our freedom and security.
Mr. John Rich, thank you for this song,I Wish I Could Shake Your Hand, as this very thing happened to me in 1979. I worked at Chrysler for 4 years and i went to work one day and i got my pink slip,2 years went by and i was never called back to work, My Bank account went down to $300 Bucks Lost my house and everything i had. I got in my car with the $300 and drove 2000 miles away to find work. This song means a lot to me,thank you Sir for having a Huge heart and giving a Shit about other people, EX Auto Worker
Stephanie Holey God bless your father for his strength. Thank you John Rich for this song that made me cry. I was raised in River Rouge. My grandpa and uncles worked at Great Lakes Steel. My brother went from right out of high school to the Ford Rouge Plant. My husband, who just got home from Vietnam, and brother-in-law worked at Chrysler when we all first got married. My husband was laid off more than he worked. He got laid off the day that I found out I was pregnant with our first son. I told him to find a job where he couldn’t be laid off all the time or replaced by a computer. He eventually became a police officer and retired from that job. We are a strong people and do what we have to do to survive. We don’t get money handed to us. I am proud to see the rebuilding of Detroit that is going on now. A proud city is coming back!! ❤️
My father had 33yrs in Wheeling-Pitt Steel was there just over a year, he signed up went to Vietnam for little over 2yrs. In that time recieved a purple heart, made rank E-8 1st class Sargent, and was honorably discharged April of 69. His job was held while he was gone worked for the steel mill another 31yrs was forced to retire, with a $400 a month cut from his monthly pension. On top of that, Wheeling-Pitt was also able to steal his and every other man's $25,000 life insurance policy that were still alive. This was the kind've man my father was, after everything that had happened to him. By getting screwed over by a place, he put his blood sweat and tears into..one day he said to me.. son don't feel bad for me we'll be ok, feel bad for all of my brothers and sisters who lost absolutely everything, when Detroit shut down. (He passed away November 12 2019)
Haven't heard this song in years....hits me like a ton of bricks cause I'm now in that situation....still have a job just loosening everything else. My home relationship etc.
Music video just makes the song hit harder when you've lived through the collapse of the auto industry in Detroit, seeing friends and loved ones go through the exact same shit...
It's taxes that ran those companies and jobs out of Michigan, not Wall street. It's been going on for along time. My dad worked for PPG coatings and resins division (car paint). I was born in Detroit but I grew up in Ohio because PPG moved their factory. It was less expensive to build a new plant in Ohio then expand the one in Detroit due to taxes and permits. This was in 1964. It's been a long time coming.
@@MilitantMountaineer No we haven't and no we didn't have soldiers in Iraq two years before the war. And for the record those precious unions are what killed the jobs. Cancers within the company that can't be fired no matter how lazy they are.
Heard this driving thru Grand Rapids back in '09--my Dad had fallen and broken his hip & I drove back from San Diego to help out. Saw the factories closed there with empty parking lots. The song hit me.
2023 Came here from End of the World over on Tom McDonald's channel that he did with John Rich, Thought this was a new song Rich just released until I looked at the date and saw it was from the 2008 crisis. History repeats itself, song is as true today as it was back then.
55,000 people used to build Buicks in Flint, Michigan. Now those folks are gone and the building they used to work in is a 15 block pile of rubble. And now new Buicks are built anywhere but here.
@@jamessamuel1611 Republican GW sent away jobs, Dimocrat BC sent them away, Obummer said they'd never come back- DT is bringing them back. The socialist agenda of so many of our once great metro areas is rotting away the infrastructure faster than can be rebuild. Can you tell me one Conservative ran City or even State that's having riots and "protests" today?
Growing up in Detroit, and in a family that have worked on the line 60 years before I was born, this song gets to me. It's sad to hear plants closing down, and thousands lose jobs, while the assholes who probably never set foot in those plants keep getting richer.
mav9898 Curious based on the comment and user name if you were my cousin Maverick. He worked for Pontiac and Oldsmobile if I remember right and our Grandmothers were sisters (Eleanor and June.) Great Grandpa Gus worked for Oldsmobile for 40 some years and my Dad bought his last last car he owned (69 Cutlass.) If it is you reply back or ask your aunt Cathy for Dads email.
What does wall street care? The less we work,the more jobs the can ship to china and india...charge them sons of bitches pennies on the dollar to work while us Americans have to rely on welfare,ssi,ssd,selling drugs or working min wage. And heaven forbid someone is forced to work 3 min wage jobs and when they demand the money to go up a bit so they can live off it,wall street grabs their pants stomp their feet and scream REPLACE EM WITH MACHINES!
As somebody born in Detroit I'm upset that I have not heard this song till now. Thank you for this song, The good news is hearing this now I can say we are coming back around.
So sad jobs really happened that way😢 I grew up with beautiful grandparents when my mom died from diabetes at 23, I was 4. I remember grandpa going through strikes etc. He worked his job most of his life. We always made it through grandpa made sure. God bless you grandpa
Hello 👋 Tammy. How are you doing? Hope you are fine. I'm Mark Clifford and am from Denver Colorado, where are you from? You seem like a real country girl
I grew an " auto workers daughter, l am the widow of an assembler at Frieghtliner. These men were not formerly educated; however, they broke their backs for their families everyday. The auto industry combined with their commitment to their families provided homes and health. Keep Detroit alive.
I grew up in Detroit, I raised my daughter there. It is a shame how it went from a beautiful city and slowly the plants started started shutting down. People lost pride and lost money. Those That had money moved to the suburbs. The last time I was There I saw hope, but that was ten years ago, and from what I've heard recently there is no hope left. That is so so sad. My Thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends I have l left there and of course all the other souls in Detroit.
This has to be one of my favorite songs and music video... makes the life of blue collar workers open. I worked in a factory out of high school, went to Afghanistan wanting something more came home and can’t wait to go back to a hard days work.
Well John , it's been 9 years since you wrote this so very important song ..... well , I have to say, it still hits home and it still makes me shed a tear or 15 . Not sure if anyone ever formally thanked you for standed up to these suite dummy's and making that change to this country that we all saw after this recording ! MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS AND PRAY FOR MANY GREAT THINGS TO COME !
Saddest but best song. My dad worked a job for well over 30 years. Lost his retirement and had to pretty much work til the day he died. So real it breaks your hear.
I'm on disability now, but the sawmill I worked for about 30 years closed last year, they have been closing long before that, it's a shame,. Never thought Detroit would take a dump, coal did, a lot of small farmers did, I think steel did, it's an absolute shame, that the foundation on which this country rests has deteriorated
I agree. we should take it back from the god damn banks and corporations. But a New York Billionaire ain't the way to do it. Nor is a Clinton. We deserve a real choice
+ahepperl I will vote for Donald J. Trump [A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR ENTREPRENEUR WHO BY THE WAY EMPLOYS MILLIONS OF LEGAL US BORN CITIZENS]] 19,000,000,000,000.00 times over before I even consider voting for Hillary [HITLER] - [A COMMUNIST], or Bernie Sanders [A SOCIALIST]
It is the government keeps letting jobs get sent to china and they all seem to be just happy living in their own little world and the ones that are hurting are just regular folks like you and me and it just posses me off we need to let Washington know that all we need is our god, our guns, a little money in the bank they can keep the change
Part not all but part of the problem is way to many hands in the operations pot. We have State Gov't saying you have to do this and then we have Fed Gov't saying you have to do this, They come up with, regulations for these companies that are so outrageous it isn't even funny. Then yes of course you also have those companies that just dont' give a damn about anything or anybody except lining their own pockets.
Just attended a bottle signing with John Rich and his “Redneck Rye” whiskey in my home county of Pinellas county Florida! IT WAS F#CKIN AWESOME! JOHN RICH IS THE MAN!!
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