creekwalker-

<sarcasm>Keep going back to the now-closed plant and apply for state and federal assitance, claiming it is what your family has done for generations. Let's see if it works for you. Refuse to work towards bettering your condition, and instead hold on to whatever shred of your past that is left.</sarcasm>

As creekwalker points out, people have been displaced from their industries for years. It's nothing new. Either you adjust and survive, or fight it and...well...you get the idea.

Oh, and let's cc: gillnetters on this one, too. They tend to use the same excuse...er...reasoning for their continued actions.