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Another one bites the dust. This plant is about twenty miles from here.
http://www.wqad.com/news/wqad-ge-morrison-closing-072909,0,909457.story
At one time it employed 2,500 workers. Most of those jobs were shipped to Mexico and Malaysia years ago.
Several of our local plants are hanging on by a thread, including our largest customer. There don't seem to be any solid indicators that the worst is over yet, despite all the assurances coming out of Washington.
I wonder what will be left when...and if...we finally do turn the corner. How is manufacturing doing in your neck of the woods?
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Except those in automotive. I know NH has(had) a big auto seat plant.
On NHPR this morning I heard about how well some of our manufacturers are doing. NH Ball Bearing, business is up and electric costs are down.
http://www.nhpr.org/node/26531
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Sorry to hear that G.E. closed down that plant, creeper. I am so sick of jobs here being shipped overseas somewhere or to Mexico or South America. The M.J. Soffe plant, here where I live, recently closed-up shop and sent all the jobs to Honduras. My state was always big into textile manufacturing but not anymore. There is still a very large Purolator Filter plant here, but it was sold to two German companies several years back. At least it is still here.
That customer of ours I referred to is now owned by the Russians. It seems like we're hell-bent on destroying our manufacturing. If we're not shipping it offshore we're selling it to foreigners.
How in dog's name do people think we can survive without making anything?
I think not producing our own goods weakens us as a country. When I was a kid, everything was made here. Now, it is almost impossible to find anything made here. There has to be some way to make it more attractive for businesses to stay here and make their products here. Perhaps it should be made very difficult for them to take their business to some other country. All I know is that I want to start seeing "Made in America" on the things I buy again.
This is an excellent read:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/08/18/beware-tech-savvy-white-house/
and although I'm sure he had loving grand kids, I just can't seem to think of anything other than.
Good Riddance
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That's one "journalist" I won't miss.
The Matrix is everywhere.
It is all around us. Even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window. Or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work. When you go to Church. When you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth
Obama, Axelrove and Rahm understand this all too well. They understand that if given the choice between the red pill and the blue, most Americans would choose the blue. Choose the easy path, the comfortable path. The life they've always lived.
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Just happened to glimpse something crawling along the bottom of the screen yesterday, something about a Fed dude saying unemployment will stay at 10% through 2011 and not come down to 8% until 2014. Yow! Rummaged around the Net and found this:
Job Market Could Lag Behind for Years, Study Forecasts - Political News - FOXNews.com
Once upon a time, there was a funny, screaming comedian who was in the movie, Back to School. Sam Kineson had a routine about the poor starving people in Africa, screaming that they needed to go where the food is. Ah, found the clip:
So, in the spirit of that routine, people need to go where the jobs are. :)
why do so many live where there is so little? I realize much of the problem is caused by the reverse. Too many people. But with global warming, Africa is only going to get worse. The desert is predicted to move farther south.
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http://www.capsteps.com/sounds/obama-nofly.mp3
http://www.capsteps.com/sounds/twitter.mp3
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Kinison was a wild man! I love that movie Back to School. I've seen it I don't know how many times, and it is still hilarious to watch.
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DC isn't high enough. What would 100 Senators and a few hundred congress critters add to the rate?
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Ron, I can't tell what the percentages are for each state.
not state
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I realize that. I can't make-out what the percentages are next to the color blocks, so I can't tell what the unemployment rate is in the different counties in my state.
Your state is totally Fecked
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That bad, huh? I kinda figured that it probably would be.
In fact, the whole map of unemployment by counties is very depressing.
(I put this link as response to Hampster's comment above, but got a message back that the message I was responding to doesn't exist!!!)