More Like Whistling by the Graveyard?

One of the most significant changes over the last 50 years has been the steady progression away from the concept of family-owned businesses toward the corporate model that has management sitting somewhere besides the communities the corporation is supposed to serve. It has skewed everything.
My husband’s family owned a business for 4 generations that was finally bought out in the early 80s and it died after being bought. My husband still runs into employees of that business who remember the company and the family, and their old jobs, with affection – something that a big corporate headquarters can never generate in a community.
Ronald Reagan ruined what was left of that America by allowing corporations to dismantle it and dismantle as well the anti-trust laws that were in place, and things have been going downhill ever since, IMO. You can’t turn back the clock, but the current global model that is in place isn’t working, whereas the locally owned businesses in this country served us excellently as long as they existed. That really shows up the most in newspapers and banks, IMO. Those businesses play particular roles in communities that require a closeness between them and their communities and required good corporate citizenship that no longer is even on peoples’ radar. Now it’s all handed down from managers in corporate headquarters god knows where, and they make policy that they force communities to adopt even though the policies don’t fit the community do nothing to serve the community.

I work in Michigan for a supplier for Ford. They are 70% of our business, and we haven’t been this busy in three years. We make components for their new six speed transmission, and obviously they are selling well as i have worked NO LESS than 60 hours a week for 3 or 4 months, while most everybody else is working 4 days a week.
Family or not, Ford seems to be doing something right.