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FWIW,

12/23/08
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With the end of production, 12 hundred GM workers are now out of a job. Leer and LSI, two companies that supplied the GM plant, also closed their Janesville plants Tuesday. One expert from Univeristy of Wisconsin estimated nine thousand people could be out of work in Rock County because of the ripple effect.

Union and government officials, however, are not ready to give up hope quite yet.

"We’ve seen some tough times. We’ve seen some longterm layoffs. We’ve seen some recessions. But we’ve never faced a plant idling. Like I said, it’s not a plant closing. It’s a plant idling," clarified Andy Richardson, president of UAW Local 95.

Officials presented offers to GM earlier this year for the company to bring a new line of vehicles to the Janesville plant. Officials find hope in the fact that offer has not been rejected. However, given the current financial situation facing the auto industry, GM is not in a position to make a major business decision like that.

wkow.com/global/story.asp?s=9573971

4/19/09

Janesville - Production at the General Motors plant in Janesville is scheduled to end for good this week.

GM spokesman Christopher Lee says operations at the southern Wisconsin plant will cease Thursday.

About 1,200 employees were let go just before Christmas when GM ended SUV production at the plant.

Some 100 workers were retained to finish an order of small- to medium-duty trucks for Isuzu Motors Ltd.

Lee says most of those workers will be laid off Thursday. He says others will be kept on to help guide the plant’s shutdown.

GM’s long-term future remains in doubt. Chief Executive Fritz Henderson says the automaker may file for bankruptcy if it can’t meet the strict requirements that came with $13.4 billion in government loans.

jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/43254027.html?ipad=y
 
Caldera said:
FWIW,

12/23/08
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With the end of production, 12 hundred GM workers are now out of a job. Leer and LSI, two companies that supplied the GM plant, also closed their Janesville plants Tuesday. One expert from Univeristy of Wisconsin estimated nine thousand people could be out of work in Rock County because of the ripple effect.

Union and government officials, however, are not ready to give up hope quite yet.

"We’ve seen some tough times. We’ve seen some longterm layoffs. We’ve seen some recessions. But we’ve never faced a plant idling. Like I said, it’s not a plant closing. It’s a plant idling," clarified Andy Richardson, president of UAW Local 95.

Officials presented offers to GM earlier this year for the company to bring a new line of vehicles to the Janesville plant. Officials find hope in the fact that offer has not been rejected. However, given the current financial situation facing the auto industry, GM is not in a position to make a major business decision like that.

wkow.com/global/story.asp?s=9573971

4/19/09

Janesville - Production at the General Motors plant in Janesville is scheduled to end for good this week.

GM spokesman Christopher Lee says operations at the southern Wisconsin plant will cease Thursday.

About 1,200 employees were let go just before Christmas when GM ended SUV production at the plant.

Some 100 workers were retained to finish an order of small- to medium-duty trucks for Isuzu Motors Ltd.

Lee says most of those workers will be laid off Thursday. He says others will be kept on to help guide the plant’s shutdown.

GM’s long-term future remains in doubt. Chief Executive Fritz Henderson says the automaker may file for bankruptcy if it can’t meet the strict requirements that came with $13.4 billion in government loans.

jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/43254027.html?ipad=y
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Thanks

It did not close in 2008. It was stationed. There was enough time since Obama became president to the employees leaving the plant for it to be saved, they had not given up home, and it did not happen
 
That is a commitment,
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Whatever you say…guess we have different understandings of the English language.

BTW, repeating something over and over does not make it any more factual.

John
 
oldcelt said:
Whatever you say…guess we have different understandings of the English language.

BTW, repeating something over and over does not make it any more factual.

John
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Tell that to people who are claiming the plant closed under George Bush
 
Tell that to people who are claiming the plant closed under George Bush
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I think 1100 of them would say that it did. With your logic it is likely still open…I’m sure there are a few security guards left.

John
 
oldcelt said:
Whatever you say…guess we have different understandings of the English language.

BTW, repeating something over and over does not make it any more factual.

John
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But it does help promelgate the “Big Lie”; that’s why it’s so important to keep it going. That being said, no amount of factual information is going to convince some people.
 
ishii said:
I would be interested in who your Democrat minorithy “rising stars” are. In the Republican party we have Bobby Jindal - governor of Louisiana, Susan Martinez, governor of New Mexico, Nikki Haley - gov. of South carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida. All were possible VP choices. There are also a number non-minority young leaders in the party as well - Paul Ryan and Chris Christie, e.g. Who are the new generation of bright young leaders in the Democrat party ready to take the lead?

Ishii
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YOu forgot Mia Love.
 
CMatt25 said:
Ishii, tax cuts for the wealthiest, deregulation, cutting social programs and increasing defense are not exactly new Republican ideas.

But if you insist on names, Ishii, there are too many within the Democratic Party to list all of them but I’ll give you some names if that will make you happy. 🤷

There is a current Sec of St who if she chose to run could be elected POTUS in 2016. There is Deval Patrick, an African American, who like your current RNC nominee did, is serving as governor of Mass. The chair of the DNC is a Jewish female Congresswoman. Serving under President Obama in other Cabinet positions besides Sec of St Clinton has been Sec of Labor Hilda Solis, former AZ governor Janet Napolitano has led Homeland Secuirty, former Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius HHS. And there are many Democratic female Senators. I won’t list all of them either. But to just give you some names. Kirsten Gillibrand, Jeanne Shaheen, Amy Klobuchar. Maria Cantwell, your own Patty Murray. Perhaps further down the road, I’ve been impressed with California’s Attn Gen, Kamala Harris in interviews I’ve seen her do on MSNBC. I could see her having a bright future in national Democratic Party politics if she should so choose to pursue a national career. She happens to be both African American and female. 🤷

I’m actually very proud of the work many of these people have done standing up for the less fortunate, for the poor and middle class, for women rights, civil rights, and for the sick who need healthcare for instance.

But as Old Celt said minorities in leadership positions is nothing new for Democrats. And Democrats were already the first to nominate a female for VP of the 2 major parties decades ago. The first to elect an African-American President of the United States. 🤷
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CMatt I sure as heck wouldn’t be BRAGGING about Debbie Wasserman Schulz one of the most vile, hateful harridans in the halls of politics. Did you see Anderson Cooper (hardly a right wing supporter) show her point blank that she LIED in several statements. She simply looked at him and blinked her eyes as if "it doesn’t matter if I lied if enough people believed it.?

I wouldn’t brag about Janet Napolitano. :eek: Incompetent, facing charges of sex discrminination in her department, truly an embarrassment to the female sex.

The female Congress you’ve listed are a bunch of low flying ducks, headed by the two blithering idiots from Washington. I believe Patty Murray was a staunch defender of the Taliban saying they were 'building schools and hospitals."

You know as I look at the list of characters, one thing stands clear, the Democrat party elevates women and minorities by virtue of their sex or skin color not their competence. The identity politics mantra is all they have.

Oh and why didn’t you mention the lovely Maxine Waters among your lauded minority Democrats? Or how about that horrible woman in the the pink cowboy hat who after the Trayon Martin shooting screeched “He was hunted down like a DAAAAWWWG.”

Face it, you’ve got a group of “affirmative action” beneficiaries whose “leadership” has resulted in the worst “recovery” in a hundred years, a disasterous healthcare law, Dodd Frank which has paralyzed the banking industry, dramatically increased the numbers on food stamps, disability and other social services.

And the only answer is “increase taxes on the rich~”

Oh and did you enjoy the line in Ryan’s speech: More excuses than jobs"

Lisa
 
Pork_Roll said:
I don’t get why the republicans try so hard to find “minorities” to promote. Why not just choose the best candidates and not dwell on the accidents of a person but the substance. Condoleezza isn’t even pro-life.
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Pork Roll, the point is we DONT have to look hard for minorities. Earlier in the thread someone claimed the Republican party is “old white males.” Instead many have listed a fabulous bench of up and comers, many minorities, many females. And the point is that because there is such a headwind for female and minority candidates to be Republican, I think it self selects for the best and brightest.

I’d put Mia Love, Kelly Ayotte, Artur Davis, Suzanna Martinez, Nikki Haley, or Allen West up in comparison with anything the Democrat party has to offer…let’s see there is???
What I see in the Democrat party is the assumption that certain ethnic groups or age groups or demographics will blindly vote for Democrats because they have a D by their name.

I think that tide is turning and we were simply responding to the tired old claims of Republicans (party that fought slavery and for civil rights) are the racists.

Lisa
 
oldcelt said:
Such bitterness…what will you do if Obama is re-elected?

John
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Probably move to Costa Rica, maybe Brazil. Either way, I am probably going to move to a country that is less adventuristic militarily, has a growing economy, and a reasonable tax base. The United States just isn’t it anymore, and will be much less so under 4 more years of Barack “I love me some big government” Obama.
 
_Abyssinia said:
How could a skeleton crew fulfil an Isuzu contract which was done in 2009

But)** I believe that if our government is there to support you**, and give you the assistance you need to re-tool and make this transition, that this (General Motors) plant will be here for another hundred years

cfr.org/us-election-2008/obamas-speech-janesville-wisconsin/p15492

If that is not a promise what is it?
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This one phrase is the entire summation of everything that Barack Obama is about.
 
I just saw part of Paul Ryan’s speech on YouTube. Wow, where did this guy come from? He’s the most “presidential” of the bunch on either side. I can easily see him as president in the future. Heck, I could easily see his face on Mount Rushmore!
 
LisaA said:
CMatt I sure as heck wouldn’t be BRAGGING about Debbie Wasserman Schulz one of the most vile, hateful harridans in the halls of politics. Did you see Anderson Cooper (hardly a right wing supporter) show her point blank that she LIED in several statements. She simply looked at him and blinked her eyes as if "it doesn’t matter if I lied if enough people believed it.?

I wouldn’t brag about Janet Napolitano. :eek: Incompetent, facing charges of sex discrminination in her department, truly an embarrassment to the female sex.

The female Congress you’ve listed are a bunch of low flying ducks, headed by the two blithering idiots from Washington. I believe Patty Murray was a staunch defender of the Taliban saying they were 'building schools and hospitals."

You know as I look at the list of characters, one thing stands clear, the Democrat party elevates women and minorities by virtue of their sex or skin color not their competence. The identity politics mantra is all they have.

**Oh and why didn’t you mention the lovely Maxine Waters among your lauded minority Democrats? ** Or how about that horrible woman in the the pink cowboy hat who after the Trayon Martin shooting screeched “He was hunted down like a DAAAAWWWG.”

Face it, you’ve got a group of “affirmative action” beneficiaries whose “leadership” has resulted in the worst “recovery” in a hundred years, a disasterous healthcare law, Dodd Frank which has paralyzed the banking industry, dramatically increased the numbers on food stamps, disability and other social services.

And the only answer is “increase taxes on the rich~”

Oh and did you enjoy the line in Ryan’s speech: More excuses than jobs"

Lisa
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youtube.com/watch?v=niJAkR_6tKQ 😃
 
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