this is how it's done...

first: leverage buy out. destroys a union shop (if it were one to begin with)

second: return with new owners with lower wages

three: those who stay in town (not being able to afford to leave) have to take the same job again at a lower wage but work more hours to make up the difference.

four: workers get burned out having to work additional hours to make ends meet so they turn to "help" to get them through the shifts

five: meth, crank or crack is that help.

six: the slow disintegration of what was a solid working class town.

seven: repukes blame the problem on unions "being too strong or unwilling to compromise"

eight: the middle class overall continues to vanish and is replace by low wages workers who have no power and are meant to feel thankful they have a job, all the while being mentally whipped into servitude.