Abandoned cities?

I just read an article online about abandoned cities and how it's all about foreclosures but it's funny how they failed to mention the reasons behind foreclosures. Just from where i grew up in NC tons of jobs are gone from NAFTA. Good old NAFTA helped out the business man, that closed his NC manufacturers and moved them out of the country. I lost my job 15 years ago when they moved my printing press out of the building and to Hong Kong. The company i worked for then wanted to reduce my wages and give me some shit job just to keep me from bitching. They also moved two more presses out to Hong Kong and laid off 15 more pressman. The company put a note on the time clock informing everyone that if they would like to keep their jobs they could relocate to Hong kong but they would have to do so at their own expense. Long story short i got another job 700 miles away in the printing industry and it only took 3 months for that company to merge and put everyone at our company out of work. So big business is benefiting from all this but the little guy is not. I have watched probably more than 100 companies in NC that were the largest employers close or move away in the last 12-15 years. I don't know how it is that the papers report we have the strongest manufacturing base in America when everyone is out of work and all of our companies have moved overseas. Cites are not abandoned because of foreclosures they are abandoned because there is no work and then people cannot pay their bills THEN there's foreclosure.