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.
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!!! 😢😢😢
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
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
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? 😮
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
@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
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
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!
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!
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)
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
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.
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. 😎
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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!
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?
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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 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.
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
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]
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.
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?
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...
Every time I listen to this song it brings tear to my eyes as it is me that's being let go cause of my age. Companies want it all and give nothing in return
If you're not in the union now or ever have been, STFU because no one cares what you have "read" and are now regurgitating here..Fuck the Union's.."From real experience" not your BS
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 !
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.
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.
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.
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.
When I saw this music video when I was little I didn't understand what he meant, I just enjoyed the song. I really don't have much to say as it is. I'm a citizen of Detroit. My parents are divorced and my mom was out of a job for 8 months around the time this music video came out. I'm 14 now.... I came back to this music video when I was 12 and I began to understand what story this song was telling, and all the facts that were mentioned are true. Proud and made in Detroit... and nothing will change that.
Angela Coudenys well now we have a chance just hope that the business man that real Americans elected will follow through with what he said. I'm 25 served in the marines and work every day. i hope we can turn things around.
Ethan kime really my uncle he died in the war of afagan so he was a marine now I want to be a marine to brother I got 3 mores years I'm 15 Edit: 2 more years
Hanji Zoe Ackerman what tell your a adult and you get lad off this song has a hole new meaning... i am 26 and know the meaning. luckily i was only out of work a week the last time
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.
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.
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.
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.
What about the music video for Enrique Iglesias' song "Hero?" I love the music video because it was like a major motion picture; with Jennifer Love Hewitt as the leading lady.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
RIP Kris - had to watch this after his passing.
Same ❤️
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
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
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!!! 😢😢😢
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
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
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? 😮
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.
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.
Most relevant song to 2024 😢 Love & Prayers for America from Perth Australia 🇦🇺 🇺🇸
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!
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.
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
2023 still been looking for this song as times getting hard for men and women of tough times we all face in our livelihood.
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
Thanks John for spreading the TRUTH!
Can I ask you something Debra!
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
Standing up for your fellow man is what needs to happen!!
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
Dang this was hard to watch even 10 years later
completely agree
Same
Truth hurts. Politicians and bankers have turned the American dream into the American nightmare.
I know
Because it's still true sadly
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!
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!
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.
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
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.
God Bless you John Rich! Thank you for standing up for the truth!!!
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. 😎
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!
THIS HERE IS WHAT YOU CALL A REAL SONG!
Wow! This is a powerful song John. Still true today.
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❤
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.
30 people were just laid off from my job. Much of them had been there decades. This hits home.
2023 and it never felt more real!
10-2023 still holds.
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!!
John Rich has always been a great writer and it says a lot with who's in the video! Sky King! R.I.P.
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.
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
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.
And these "guys" are having their trucks built in Mexico. WTF
I here ya brother, I was 3rd generation and live in Flint but us Michiganders are a tuff breed!
mav9898 Hell yeah we are! We will get through this! If anyone can, it's us
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!
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...
That’s what we are seeing today a repeat of the late 70’s early 80’s
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.
Went to Iraq in 89, came home in 04, worked as a Union Low Volt until 10, I lost everything. They don't care about me or you or your family.
I care...thank you for your service...#maga
really? 2 years before the war started?
William Bowen its called foreign occupation and we've had soldiers in iraq since forever..always will!
Thanks for your service.
@@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.
I was born in the 60's great tunes and still listening. August 2024!!!!
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.
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
Hello 👋 Ruth. How are you doing? Hope you are fine
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
I'm a real big fan of Mickey Rourke. I am completely obsessed with him. Mickey Rourke is daddy.
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.
Fuck! I woudn't have recocgnized him if I didn't read Yours-But the face-Harley Davidson and Marlboro Men👍🖤♠️
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.
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
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.
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...
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
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I think Kris K. wrote
that song too:) Tina
from Ks...💙🎶🇺🇸
Sounds So Good 😊
Tina from Ks...
R I.P. Kris .... A Profound Video ...
Still gold, gentlemen. April 11, 2023.
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
its time to take our country back
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
lesser of 2 evils im afraid
+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]
+Mrsean Stevenson Bernie Sanders not a democratic socialist he a social Democrat which is in line with FDR and JFK which FDR helped our country so
Jason Richardson
socialism always results in the deaths of millions of people
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! 💓
An amazing, charismatic artist is John Rich.
Hey how are you doing today…?
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 a awesome song I can't get enough of I cry every time I hear it. Thanks John
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.
democrats/liberals will do that to any block and every state given the chance
@@papawoffour2562 , yet it's the Republicans that sent the jobs overseas.
I believe Papaw must be drinking some kind of kool aid . Government period is the problem. Both parties. Let’s fire all 536 and start from scratch.
@@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?
I started trades at Buick in 77
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...
Every time I listen to this song it brings tear to my eyes as it is me that's being let go cause of my age. Companies want it all and give nothing in return
I always cry to this song.
If you're not in the union now or ever have been, STFU because no one cares what you have "read" and are now regurgitating here..Fuck the Union's.."From real experience" not your BS
Same in my town about 1k manufacturing jobs left 5 years ago for asia probably this is real in emotion for some reason.
Now the whole world is shut down. I hope the USA gets well soon. God bless us all.
Boss: if you need anything just call and I'll help. big jhon: well I need a job you said to call if I need anything so give me my job back
I am listening and still listening it's 12 15 23 👍🏻Because it's the f...King TRUTH !
God bless you hard AMERICAN workers
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 !
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.
Song is relevant in 2023 as well.
Thank you John, for making that song and for thinking of all of us here in DEEETROIT!
This song never aged! In a time like this, we need a remake of this song!!!!
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 ?
The King is coming back again!!! Praise the Lord!! Worthy worthy is the Lamb that was slain!! The King is coming back again!!
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.
It's crazy how long ago this song came out, yet it feels like it just came out last year... 😪
It's a damn shame....we used to build things in this country.
They say they care, but it keeps getting worse.
Good video guys....made me cry.
Is very sad to watch this video
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
That's why we have so much poverty in our natision NO JOBS.
Douglas Lambert Fuckin true!! Just like how mega carriers are trying to push the small companies and owner operators out.
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 listened March 17, 2023 and it it still so true.
When I saw this music video when I was little I didn't understand what he meant, I just enjoyed the song. I really don't have much to say as it is. I'm a citizen of Detroit. My parents are divorced and my mom was out of a job for 8 months around the time this music video came out. I'm 14 now.... I came back to this music video when I was 12 and I began to understand what story this song was telling, and all the facts that were mentioned are true.
Proud and made in Detroit... and nothing will change that.
You have a lot of insight for a young person. We are the best, no matter what!
Angela Coudenys well now we have a chance just hope that the business man that real Americans elected will follow through with what he said. I'm 25 served in the marines and work every day. i hope we can turn things around.
Ethan kime really my uncle he died in the war of afagan so he was a marine now I want to be a marine to brother I got 3 mores years I'm 15
Edit: 2 more years
At the age of 12 the meanings behind this song should have been lost to you. The fact it wasn't makes me very sad.
Hanji Zoe Ackerman what tell your a adult and you get lad off this song has a hole new meaning... i am 26 and know the meaning. luckily i was only out of work a week the last time
The best song I have heard on what's really going on in the fall of the middle class in America!
Yep
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.
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.
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
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??
Speaks volumes about the world we live in 👍
Thanks for listening to our Heavenly Father❤❤❤
Look at this now in 2023. Glad to see John singing with Tom McDonald.
Best thing Mickey has been in since Harley davidson and the Marlboro man
What about the wrestler lol
@@Brian-uu4lu there was only 2 reasons to watch that movie and Mickey wasn't one of them.
@@stonebay2111 hell yeah
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I thought that was him, but I couldn’t tell for sure... Very Sad the way this Country has turned on its own..🤬😡👎🏻👎🏻
What about the music video for Enrique Iglesias' song "Hero?" I love the music video because it was like a major motion picture; with Jennifer Love Hewitt as the leading lady.
I'm listening to this in 2023 and this song speaks volumes!
That song has lots of meanings behind it
Hits hard, from Detroit. Exactly how it is.
They need to play this on the radio.
Im from norman,okla......oklahoma city had a GM plant....got shut down with onoy a week notice, and this was back in the 90s
From uk it ain’t any better , forces to ground worker machine operator we in our knees this song hits home
I'm in NJ, there was a GM plant in West Trenton and they shut it down in the mid 90's, Ford plants in Edison and Mahwah are gone I could go on.
Yeah hey I just woke up I didn't know if you showed up or not because you was coming by but I'm not sure what's going on but anyways let me know so
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.
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.
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.
Listening in 2023.