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!!! 😢😢😢
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
@@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.
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
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.
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
I loved hearing you talk about the Bible. I thank God that I belong to a REAL Bible preaching church. My Pastor preaches nothing but the Bible like it or not. He can't worry if it hurts someone's feelings. Great song and Jesus is coming for sure. We are living in some wicked times and if ppl study the Bible they will see the times we are living in..written in black and white
Where’s a Christian find those real Bible teaching preaching churches these days. Not big ole tabernacles but a real down to earth country God loving church? 😮
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
I hope all of you are safe. Whenwhile... we in the US stop mining, adjutant down coal plants & praises China for their supposed "green energy'. They just built 3 new coal plants with 6 more slated. I just don't get people like AOC. Where in hell do they think energy chines from to fuel their precious EVs? The wall? Oh yeah! She did say that!
His part is that much more heartbreaking since his passing. The first time I saw him was in Fire Down Below where he played a big time corporate villain
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!
Mickey Rourke is one of my favorite actors. Love all his movies. My favorite are Desperate Hours, Harley-Davidson and the Marlboro Man, and The Wrestler. I think he should've got an Oscar for his performance in The Wrestler.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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...
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
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.
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 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.
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?
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!
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
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.
This is such a real video today. God Bless the hard workman man. Everyone of those excecutives that stole money should be held accountable except we have a crooked government who allowed it to happen.
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.
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.
@@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
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 !
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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
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 is a great song and I agree with Donald it should be put back on the radio, This is what is happening to our country, I pray everyday for something for our Country. It is sad that our Country is going to hell in a handbasket as mama used to say. Government does not care about real Americans.
It's hard to believe that this song was done 10 years ago. It goes with what's happening to the country's economy today. Thank you John Rich for sticking by the working men and women of this country when the majority of main stream country artists have not. Yearning for a day when country music will again represent middle-class people and American values again someday. Maybe a 2.0 version of this song about shutting not just the U.S. but the whole world's economy. Again thank you from the bottom of my heart. Signed a middle-class working man.
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.
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.
Sadly Melissa it is going to get a lot harder! Not only did the "blue wave" hit in a big way Madigan go 6 more minions...I hate to say but if you have the ability...RUN!
I cannot say enough how important this song is to me and so many other Americans. The truth of it, while uncomfortable, needs to be shared as many times as it takes to rectify the greed and corruption.
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)
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?
This is one of the most powerful videos and songs I've ever watched/heard. Here's to all the hard working men and women who've ever struggled. God bless you all.
Crazy to think this song is over 10 years old now. I remember seeing it on tv at my friends house and we sat and discussed the likelihood of our fathers losing their jobs at the time.
Hello , it’s me John Rich on my private fan chat account. I want to use this medium to thank you all for all the love shown me through the years. Thanks for being a part of my career. I love you all ❤️ I will also be making a live video chat with a few lucky fans just to keep you uplifted during these trying times. Let’s come together and fight COVID-19. Stay home, Stay safe. Join now on hangout www.iamjohnrichonly@gmail.com #SeasonGreetings 🎄
My family worked the line for Chrysler Dodge for many years. One uncle was on the design team for the Viper. Iacocca is a family hero. It saddens me to see the state that Detroit is in. Hell, it breaks my heart every time I drive by the abandoned plants.
You write songs that hits the bone and breaks the heart about what they are doing to our country and how easily people can be bought ..for any reason! Thank you for your patriot commitment.
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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I listen to this quite a few times a year. Love it and hate it at the same time. Thank you to the big name cast members who participated I. This video.
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.
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 first discovered this song in 2021 and it's just as relevant today. As well as speaking volumes about Detroit and the plight of ex-factory workers in recessionary times, I can see similarities in some of the post-industrial English towns that lost their primary industry and never recovered in the decades following. Above all, for me at least, this song is a cautionary tale to be careful & take nothing for granted because this could happen to anybody.
John Rich hasn’t sold out as a country singer like so many others. He is a patriot
Ignorant is bliss.
John Rich 100% Patriot
till the end of the world..
Dam right 👍
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!!! 😢😢😢
This song needs updated to "They're shutting America Down"
Amen to that
Sad but SO true
Amen
True.
We are looking better today because of God’s grace!
This song need to be put back on the radio, because the message is so clear as in 2008 as it is so clear in 2022 and years to come.
The great recession that a lot of people have forgotten about.
@@detech8149 Yep and it's coming back again.... and let's all cheer ...." Go Brandon"..... lol.
Biden for u I tried to tell Americans to keep Trump but nope so stfu up
History repeats itself
Same group of leaders recycling the same garbage in the economy but in steroids.
2023. John Rich is a true Patriot. He does so much for ppl. Stands for the flag and what it means. Love and fellow
Patriot from East Tennessee 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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
Hello
East Tennessee west North Carolina, piedmont North Carolina we see the same sunrise
I'm sick that Kristofferson is in this video...
@@toddbrooks2464why is that ?
Anyone listening to this in 2021? It’s such a sad song but the truth it speaks is pretty accurate with what’s going on today with the current world
Leftest run Cities are being Ruined...It's not the Bankers, Its the Dems.
Yes it sure does
@@Devil3R Its mostly the bankers and majority of politicians!!!!
@@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.
I'm listening to it while working in Metro Detroit still trying to make a living off the auto insurance
Who still like this song in2024
Now is shutting America Down!
I do first time listening to John Rich
I do
Because of are f president
Even more relevant now than then. Been listening to it for 14 years
End of 2021 and this song needs to go viral again. God Bless America!🇺🇲
Shared in 2022
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.
John just went #1 "Progress" Anti woke anthem
All 8 have to look torward to is Thess 4:16rapture66th B-day tomorrow:-(
He's not the original singer of this song
Powerful man. I can’t believe Kris Kristofferson is gone. Him and John Prine were two of my favorites Prine inspired me to become a songwriter.
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.
The unions and politicians are responsible for the demise of Detroit. It started in the sixties and their just now getting around to finishing it off.
Amen to that ! Now get Trump back for 2024
@@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
As a lifelong Michigander this video brought me to tears (and anger). God bless you for this video John Rich!!!
I'm from Taylor Michigan my whole family worked in the steel mills for a long time
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.
@@JeffCookeMI Same. Many times.
Most relevant song to 2024 😢 Love & Prayers for America from Perth Australia 🇦🇺 🇺🇸
Anyone listening in 2024 ....
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
Yes sir. Hits close to home more than ever right now
No, loser.
It's sad that this song is relevant in 2024
I’m here and feeling it
I loved hearing you talk about the Bible. I thank God that I belong to a REAL Bible preaching church. My Pastor preaches nothing but the Bible like it or not. He can't worry if it hurts someone's feelings. Great song and Jesus is coming for sure. We are living in some wicked times and if ppl study the Bible they will see the times we are living in..written in black and white
Where’s a Christian find those real Bible teaching preaching churches these days. Not big ole tabernacles but a real down to earth country God loving church? 😮
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
I hope all of you are safe. Whenwhile... we in the US stop mining, adjutant down coal plants & praises China for their supposed "green energy'. They just built 3 new coal plants with 6 more slated. I just don't get people like AOC. Where in hell do they think energy chines from to fuel their precious EVs? The wall? Oh yeah! She did say that!
RIP Kris - had to watch this after his passing.
Same ❤️
His part is that much more heartbreaking since his passing. The first time I saw him was in Fire Down Below where he played a big time corporate villain
I worked for general motors for 30 years and this really hits home!! God bless my brothers and sisters on the line.
God bless you and all the people who worked with you I salute you
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!
30 people were just laid off from my job. Much of them had been there decades. This hits home.
I'm a farmer and all I have to say is the men in denom built this country and the men in suits destroyed it
Truth 100%
Thanks John Rich beautiful song makes me cry
Dam right sir !!!!!!!!!!!!
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!
Damn right
2023 and John Rich went to school with a few of my good friends in Dickson Tn
Class of 1992. Go Dickson Cougars
John Rich is awesome
I don’t know how I missed this video. Awesome performance by John Rich, Kris Christopheeson, and one of my favorites Mickey Rourke❤️
Mickey Rourke is one of my favorite actors. Love all his movies. My favorite are Desperate Hours, Harley-Davidson and the Marlboro Man, and The Wrestler. I think he should've got an Oscar for his performance in The Wrestler.
These kinda songs are reason i love country music they talk about real life and hit you right in the heart ❤️
Amen.
I couldn't agree more. It's the whole reason I fell in love with country music.
@@michaelalaniz7627 country is all aboute THE real world and feeling .
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.
American he knows how america feels God bless John Rich
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.
Lived it. Thank you so much for this, @JohnRich.
My father is 62, been with his company for over 40 years, and he's getting laid off. This song hits home.
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.
@@Xcieg oh good! Times are so rough this day and age. Well you take care and glad your dad got another job! 💓
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.
2023 still been looking for this song as times getting hard for men and women of tough times we all face in our livelihood.
Wow! This is a powerful song John. Still true today.
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!!
Thanks John for spreading the TRUTH!
Can I ask you something Debra!
God Bless you John Rich! Thank you for standing up for the truth!!!
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.
Can I ask you something!
Very moving story of truth in music. Well done John, Kris and everyone who contributed!
Don't forget Mickey Rourke
@@michelboudreau8822 I don't think Rourke was acting when he did this part , he was remembering stuff
What a song...movie was great too...this was a very sad truth to realize for people that never expected it❤
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...
I was born in the 60's great tunes and still listening. August 2024!!!!
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
Reply to Kris K fan
I think Kris K. wrote
that song too:) Tina
from Ks...💙🎶🇺🇸
Sounds So Good 😊
Tina from Ks...
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.
How did your father lose his pension?
Isn't that handled by the union?
Sounds to me like it's the union's fault... Unions are a socialist construct anyway, so I have no sympathy for any of them...
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!
It's happening again Detroit shutting down ! This time for the safety of their worker's but Government needs to pay the workers not the company
Your not wrong. I live on the eastside and to think this neighborhood used to be so nice. Most of it is in ruins now.
Detroit is less than 500,000 now. There is enough vacant land there to begin farming now !
@@highwatercircutrider , Yes and there are pheasant, coyotes, deer, fox and even beavers running around in some of those urban prairie areas too.
@@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. 😎
John Rich has always been a great writer and it says a lot with who's in the video! Sky King! R.I.P.
THIS HERE IS WHAT YOU CALL A REAL SONG!
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.
Don't compare him to Alan Jackson
A J is watered down & weak
@@georgeadams5390 Not necessarily because Alan Jackson is older than John Rich. Plus; Alan has more experience in the music industry than John.
ldolphin34
Absolutely
Great comment!❣️!
Too many people don't listen to sad stories when their life is good.
This is a awesome song I can't get enough of I cry every time I hear it. Thanks John
That’s what we are seeing today a repeat of the late 70’s early 80’s
Standing up for your fellow man is what needs to happen!!
Get ready for this song to be relevant again
We're in for a hell of a ride, hope you stocked up on ammo
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.
it always has been relevant
Sad but true
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?
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 time I heard it was today. It seems they've been shutting Nashville down too.
2010: Shutting Detroit down
2020: Shutting the world down
no fucking shit.
Libertarian 7211 I was just thinking the same thing
@@Calvin-01 Same here. I don't know why it just now "clicked", but it did and it was like the "life flashes before your eyes" moment.
Sad world
Blame Nancy for that
This song needs a Part 2 now.
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
Lee Brice has a good one. 6 feet apart
@@ashleysmart3 Luke Combs
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
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.
This song never aged! In a time like this, we need a remake of this song!!!!
John this needs to spin again brother! This is the 2023 National Anthem. MASTERPIECE!!!! ❤🎵🎶
Hello Caroline 👋 how are you doing today, hope you’re good?
This is such a real video today. God Bless the hard workman man. Everyone of those excecutives that stole money should be held accountable except we have a crooked government who allowed it to happen.
Hello Lauren 👋 how are you doing today??
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.
Great song with powerfully accurate lyrics & an awesome video acted in by a couple of true legends
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.
Pretty powerful message. Just wish people wise up to what’s going on in this Country.
Politicians should all be swinging from lamp posts for what they did to Detroit alone.
@@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
@@redarmysoja . I'll agree... not politically right, but feels right. For betrayal to our country
You got that right
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 !
The whole song is sad, but when they peel it out of the pub and get to the guys home, that's when it hits you.
Grandpa was a vet and a heavy diesel mechanic he fought for what was right to his dying day rip Hoss
YEA,FOR THE 1st. TIME IN MY LIFE I'M THANKFUL MY PRECIOUS GRANDPARENTS ARE NOT HERE TO SEE WHAT A SAD,SAD,SAD MESS OF SHIT WE'RE IN. SO SAD!!!!!
@@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.
Thank you John, for making that song and for thinking of all of us here in DEEETROIT!
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...
My close friend lost a work friend to suicide because of corporate policy.
From the D...its such a shame
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.
Make better cars.
@@CIorox_BIeach I wish your mom made a better kid...but I guess when you have two dads, Proctor & Gamble, who really knows whos to blame.
You cant kill the Detroit spirit
Idk why this ended up in my feed but LETS GO DETROIT!!!
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
Can I ask you something Matty!
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?!?!
Wade Penley- The Master has a plan for you & yours...there will be another chapter, walk on Faith.
@@jackrambler3262 thank you.
It's hard to keep the faith when you have babies!
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'm about to be in the same place and I am damn tired of offshoring. As a country how can we continue like this?
Unless you have lived it you have no idea how much this is true!!
Started living through this Thursday.
Truth !
You're absolutely right, and here we go again....
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.
My mom worked at the Ford plant in Wixom Michigan in the 70's. So sad to see it all in shambles. Ford plant is gone now.
It's a damn shame what our country has been put through over money, power, and greed.
Yes Sir! You are absolutely right! It makes me fighting mad!
Bailouts should come with the caviot of a major pay cut for executives and no lay offs or hour reduction for workers
I agree...
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
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.
I love this song bring back beautiful memories. How are you Penni ?
This is a great song and I agree with Donald it should be put back on the radio, This is what is happening to our country, I pray everyday for something for our Country. It is sad that our Country is going to hell in a handbasket as mama used to say. Government does not care about real Americans.
It's hard to believe that this song was done 10 years ago. It goes with what's happening to the country's economy today. Thank you John Rich for sticking by the working men and women of this country when the majority of main stream country artists have not. Yearning for a day when country music will again represent middle-class people and American values again someday. Maybe a 2.0 version of this song about shutting not just the U.S. but the whole world's economy. Again thank you from the bottom of my heart. Signed a middle-class working man.
Amen
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.
An amazing, charismatic artist is John Rich.
Hey how are you doing today…?
God bless you John Rich. Coming from a Detroit auto worker this song hits home literally.
Great song and video! We love you Kris and Mickey! Legends!
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.
Yes
10-2023 still holds.
Thank you John for making this song. I don't live in Detroit but even in Illinois we are having a hard time.
Yeah, I'd love to leave Illinois.
Sadly Melissa it is going to get a lot harder! Not only did the "blue wave" hit in a big way Madigan go 6 more minions...I hate to say but if you have the ability...RUN!
Haven't been a big country music listener and I just found this. Tom sent me.
I often forget I'm a person, that's how everybody else treats me.
John rich is a treasure he is so awesome bring real country music back like this man!!
Listening to this now after John Rich’s Revelation song on July 17, 2024 @ 10:30pm.
Mark this day on your calendar!
Me too
Me too
I cannot say enough how important this song is to me and so many other Americans. The truth of it, while uncomfortable, needs to be shared as many times as it takes to rectify the greed and corruption.
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!! ❤️
Sorry this happen to u. I know some people that this very same thing happened to
I’ve a damn shame that we destroyed the economic well-being of an entire generation and especially in towns like Detroit
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)
Thank you for your hard work.
I'm listening to this in 2023 and this song speaks volumes!
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?
You from the upper midwest?
Jr Barthol it’s all dollars and cents we’re just numbers on the roster
People turn a blind eye for the bottom line. Otherwise how could they sleep at night? I’m sorry that happened to you.
Such A Shame.Tina from Ks...
Thanks for listening to our Heavenly Father❤❤❤
This is one of the most powerful videos and songs I've ever watched/heard. Here's to all the hard working men and women who've ever struggled. God bless you all.
Crazy to think this song is over 10 years old now. I remember seeing it on tv at my friends house and we sat and discussed the likelihood of our fathers losing their jobs at the time.
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It's crazy how long ago this song came out, yet it feels like it just came out last year... 😪
2023 and it never felt more real!
@@teadams72 Felt it when it happened. Never fully recovered.
Praying 2025 will be Better 🙏🏻
MAGAHA
Maybe we can start Detroit back up ! Let’s GO AMERICA.
My family worked the line for Chrysler Dodge for many years. One uncle was on the design team for the Viper. Iacocca is a family hero. It saddens me to see the state that Detroit is in. Hell, it breaks my heart every time I drive by the abandoned plants.
You write songs that hits the bone and breaks the heart about what they are doing to our country and how easily people can be bought ..for any reason! Thank you for your patriot commitment.
This video always makes me tear up bc it's real life I can't begin to imagine how many factory workers have taken that same pink slip walk :(
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!
Far too many of us
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.
@joy Campbell..nice meeting you over here.i know you must have heard a lot about me right..here is my What'sap number you can text me up on What'sap so we can talk more.Hope you don't mind +1 (213) 861‑4436
Been there twice and is why I DO NOT any longer give an employer a “2 weeks notice” if I quit fuck um they don’t ever give you one
I listen to this quite a few times a year. Love it and hate it at the same time. Thank you to the big name cast members who participated I. This video.
Shuttin down a whole lot more than Detroit these days.
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.
This isn't a sad song, it's the truth.
Even to this day.
We won't buy our way out, we're still getting screwed by the government.
Hey how are you doing today…?
Still gold, gentlemen. April 11, 2023.
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 first discovered this song in 2021 and it's just as relevant today. As well as speaking volumes about Detroit and the plight of ex-factory workers in recessionary times, I can see similarities in some of the post-industrial English towns that lost their primary industry and never recovered in the decades following. Above all, for me at least, this song is a cautionary tale to be careful & take nothing for granted because this could happen to anybody.