[Tom Line]

I like this post. Being a Ford employee, I guess you could say I'm living it.

In the past 1 year, we have fired or forced to leave approximately 500 people in my plant. The plant started out with 1300 or so folks. To put that in perspective, look at the person sitting in front of you, the person to you left, the person to your right and behind. Get rid of 1 in every 3 of them. Your friends, neighbors.... can you imagine how horrible it is to know that the folks being walked out the door have families at home that are now wondering where their next meal is coming from?

So when you go to your build locations, if they happen to be at one of your sponsors - thank them. They're going through incredibly hard times. To continue to support a program like this while they're getting rid of huge portions of their workforce shows unbelievable commitment to our communities.