The fake "Recovery" fueled by loose credit and the lowest interest rates in recorded history has finally run out of steam. People are financing cars over 7-8 years now, even with rock bottom interest rates.
What does that tell you?
Well, most Ford employees are completely financially illiterate so it tells them nothing of course. But, to anyone who understands the first thing about economics, it tells them that even the most extreme loose lending policies can no longer produce growth in sales, in fact sales are falling badly now.
So, what you thought was a "Booming Economy!" was actually the greatest debt bubble in history, but unlike 2008, the product was cars this time, not houses, because people are too broke from 2008 to even buy a house, so the banks switched up the game and blew the bubble in cars.
Hope you enjoyed the ride(Pun intended), but it was never expected to last, as the masters of finance trickery pulled another one over on the dumbed down, Reality TV watching American public.
And now the game is over, which is why you lost your job, or are about to.
Thanks for playing! Enjoy your economic crash, which will make 2008 look like a walk in the park. :-)