In your shoes I would find it equally as difficult if not impossible to be so.
A few months ago I watched a documentary about the closing of a GM facility it was truly a sad sight to see.
Sometimes a job isn't just a job but ones life and to see something like that happen and worse, to be part of it could bring tears to ones eyes.

Here in northern New Jersey and nearby New York we have lost several assembly plants. Fisher Body in Tarrytown N.Y. Ford in Mahwah N.J. The Ford plant in Edison New Jersey, GM PLant in Linden as well as a Ford parts distribution facility virtually next door to me in Teterboro N.J.
I knew several that worked at these facilities and they had no where to go. There are no close by manufacturing facilities here for them to go to. Many sold their homes and moved on or took any odd job to just put food on the table waiting in hopes for something to come along.

In addition close by here we have also lost a huge Honeywell plant just across the road from the Ford parts distribution facility.
This is what happens with outsourcing and going to cheap foreign labor. How anyone can tell me things are getting better I find hard to believe

Close by (85 miles from me) Is the Sands Casino in Bethlehem Pa. It sits on the grounds of the old Bethlehem Steel Mills. It truly is a sad sight to see what was once one of Americas largest industries to be reduced to a slot parlor.

Yes Bob, this is what America is coming to. We may yet see the day when WE will be the ones manufacturing the little umbrellas to put in our drinks and producing knock off junk.

Walk down the main street of almost any town and see the closed shops, read about more closings and job losses and then tell me things are getting better....they aren't.

Bob, Have a good evening