[woofie11]

His quote was rather crass: "Today is a sad day, and people will react in different ways. However you react, those emotions are real, and they matter"

There's a difference between "you feel sad you're fired" and "you'll miss your mortgage next month, because no one is hiring, and your kids may be kicked out of their school district as a result."

[TulliusCicero]

You seriously want him to bring up specific difficulties like missing rent payments? Why would you want him to rub salt into the wound like that?

[woofie11]

No. I'd like him to acknowledge that this will put employees in a genuinely difficult position, rather than just "I'm sorry people will feel bad." I brought up specific difficulties to point out how the non-specific platitudes downplayed them. You can be non-specific, while acknowledging the seriousness of a decision like this one.