any of the 'big 3' go belly up & 2.5 million lose their job. (management will still get their bonus for f'n it all up)

a carpenter friend just left my house (the new sky light will be so nice).. he said the tourist slow down in Vegas resulted in a major mall project being stopped .. 2500 union carpenters out of work overnight.
he's $28. union carpenter & scrambling to make car payments & rent .. showed up a my front door lookin' / beggin'.. he was ready / available to do a project we had talked about last year.

I'm bad ..
for my last HOME renovation I used a union dry wall worker when they were on strike (= scab) .. that guy could do amazing things with metal framing (commercial style)+ he knew dry wall tricks that were truly amazing .. arched door way w/ rounded cornors in seemingly minutes
I saw that guy a home depot recently .. he's doing meanial labor side jobs .. no union work
a HIGHLY skilled union worker with no work available.