With a national economy, companies will move new plants to a location where
it is more economically sound. They open a Toyota plant here, but they close
one there. They close an MCI call center, but they open one there.
The local effects suck, but in the national terms the overall job count is
going up. Layoff will happen in the best of economies, however, now the
bottom line is the most important, when I can save 15 cents a person per day
by putting them in Omaha, and I have 10k employees, that roughly 400k a
year. So plants move. Plus when places open up new locations, they work the
government to get local and state taxes lowered for them, these usually only
last for around 10-20 years, so when the lower tax rate runs out, so does
the company.
I fear that your new Toyota plant is where our plant from Georgetown
Kentucky will be moving to when the tax breaks run out in the next few
years. So your new plant is our new layoffs.
Your MCI layoff was some other cities gain. This is the cycle of national
economy, where we can sell across the country, and the only thing we need is
a phone line and people able to read the script. This will not change. The
shock and heartache of the losses being in your hometown will never go away,
and they suck, however, as long as state and local governments give limited
breaks to companies opening big plants, this is the cycle.
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From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:00 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Kerry's record in Senate
The is from their finance division - is I think is a part of their
bankruptcy
reorganization. It was just on my mind. last week there was a company that
laid
off several hundred workers, and another the week before. In fact since the
first of the year, just here there has been layoffs of around 6000, and they
are
building a new Toyota plant which will pick up around 1300 - but the overall
is
well into the negative numbers in this area.
It doesn't worry me, I am retired and am not looking, but it is creating
economical problems here.
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