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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Dec 6, 2008, at 9:57 PM, bob ford wrote:

> Sitting down in a closed bankrupt business is not something I would  
> use gumption or spirited to describe.  I don't know all of the  
> facts, but if the company has no money, sitting down won't make the  
> money fairies bring a bag of cash.  I don't know the whole story; if  
> I did I would probably side with the workers.  But sitting down  
> inside a closed , broke, business seems like a 'waste of time', as I  
> said before.

What they did was to draw attention to their plight. They can't to  
plead their case to Congress. They did what they thought they could to  
get attention. That is how the present world works. Get attention, you  
might get help. You might also help others by drawing attention.