My daughter *was* going to buy a new car.. Until today.. An example of trickle down..

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My grown daughter has been researching new cars for a while now, her old one is a 97 and getting a bit long in the tooth.

Today she and my son in law unequivocally decided against a new car for her. The reason? My son in law is an aircraft mechanic at Lockheed and works on the F22, today's announcement means there is an excellent chance his good paying union job will be history quite soon.

I'm not posting this to debate the pros and cons of the F22 or any other weapons systems, this is actually a bit of a moral dilemma for me as someone with pretensions of liberalism.

Just showing an example of how eliminating one good paying American job leads to the elimination of another and another and another.

Do you blame a family the majority of whose income is possibly going away soon for tightening the belt at the expense of other American workers?