Layoff Announcement More Bad News for Indiana Economy (Franklin, IN)

[mrsteve]

Breaking from WISHTV.COM

"Wednesday's layoff announcement at the ArvinMeritor plant in Franklin will aggravate Indiana's loss of manufacturing jobs.

The Michigan-based auto parts maker said Wednesday it is closing the Franklin plant over the next year and laying off more than 850 workers. Indiana has lost 106,000 manufacturing jobs since the state's manufacturing employment peaked in February 2000, according to the US Bureau of Labor statistics."

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Here's the verr-r-ry interesting bit:

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"In a WISHTV.COM epoll Wednesday, 33 percent of those surveyed said they believe Indiana's economy will get better. Forty-eight percent said they thought it would get worse, and 12 percent expect it to stay the same."

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[hadrons]

1. A red state ....

I know not all of them voted for Chimpy, but the ones that did need to get a good wack on the side of the head

[LiberalFighter]

10. Wouldn't do any good.

They need to be sterilized so they can't procreate any more idiots.

They have voted for Dan Burton, Mike Pence, Mark Souder that are off their rockers. In the past it has also included David McIntosh, Dan Quayle, Dan Coats.

Those are the ones that have been Representatives and/or Senators.

[IndianaGreen]

14. Indiana votes Democratic for Governor and the legislature.

We have a Democratic governor, Democratic Mayor, and the Democrats control half the Indiana General Assembly and the city council in Indianapolis.

For some strange reason, the same people that vote Democratic, always vote Republican for President. The late Governor O'Bannon crushed his GOP opponent in 2000, yet Bush carried Indiana by 150,000 votes over Gore!

[salin]

2. You know what we need in Indiana?

To elect that wizard of a budget man Mitch Daniels to bring that Bush Economy magic to heal Indiana. :eyes:

[BiggJawn]

3. We'll probably get it...

If for no other reason that when we go into the booths next fall it will be "hmmm....Mitch Daniels...worked for Bush, I recall...Who's this guy (or gal) on the Dem side? Never heard of them..."

I am amazed at Vi Simpson and Joe Andrews (finally heard his name enough to remember it) "Stealth Campaign"!
I hear Daniels name at LEAST 10X more than the Democratic Party hopefuls!

We got trouble. people will be fed up with Bush and ReTHUG policies, but they won't know who else to vote for...

[salin]

4. While it may be in very poor taste

given the memorial was just last week, but I hope that Kernan changes his mind. He is very well respected by the central indiana business community - and those folks tend to tip candidates chances (hence the crash and burn GOP run against OBannon's second race).

[IndianaGreen]

15. Naval Surface Warfare Center at Crane to be on 2005 BRAC list

The NSWC at Crane is among several installations recommended for closure and/or realignment by the military departments to Secretary Rumsfeld for the BRAC 2005 list. The list is not finalized, a little tinkering is to be expected.

A realignment means that the installation is either gaining or losing activities.

Among the installations impacted by BRAC '05 are:

Carlisle Barracks, Fort McPherson, Fort Polk (to realign), Beale AFB, Nellis AFB (to realign), Seymour Johnson AFB (to realign), Shaw AFB, Ingleside NS, NAS Meridian, Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, Pascagoula NS, Portsmouth Naval shipyard, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, and many others.

[mrsteve]

5. Here's another stinker - from the Louisville Courier Journal

Wow, what's going on down there in Indiana? How bad is the unemployment rate? This is from yesterday:

Total of manufacturing jobs in Indiana nears a 20-year low

"INDIANAPOLIS — The decline of manufacturing in Indiana threatens to push the state's manufacturing job total to its lowest level in two decades.

Another 14,000 lost jobs would put manufacturing employment at 586,600, a level not seen since July 1983, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures and calculations by The Indianapolis Star."

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"If manufacturing employment erodes by an additional 19,300 jobs, the 566,300 remaining jobs would be the fewest since 1961."

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Thank Ja Dad retired from Delco in Anderson 5 years ago so they can't lay him off. All I have to worry about now is GM monkeying with his pension. :grr:

[BigBadVodoDaddy]

6. Indiana has gotten a big wake up slap in the face.

To bad this is they way they had to learn it! I love Indiana, but it is our own fault. I have Anti-Bush signs on the back window of my car, and I write editorials. Many Republican voters have come to me and asked that I keep-up the Bush bashing, at first I was shocked, now I encourage them to speak up also.

[Gin]

7. I heard on TV that the Government does not track the number of jobs

that leave this country. We don't have any idea how many have gone overseas. That is a statistic I would love to see.

[leesa]

13. Good for you

So sad that so many fell for the RW manufactured myth that Republicans were fiscally responsible. Had they done even a little looking they would have easily seen that Republican administration always equals a poor economy and a Dem administration produces jobs and growth.

[RainDog]

8. Red Meat For Bush's Occupation of Iraq

those corn fed boys and girls whose parents can't afford to educate them give Bush and Rummy lots of fodder for guerilla fighters.

I used to hear people around here occasionally support Bush, but now, if they do support him, it seems they're keeping their mouths shut about it.

But more and more people I hear cannot stand the man. I heard this from a man whose son is in Iraq right now in the last week. Not the kind of guy you'd stereotype as a "liberal." And he's one of many like him who've said the same thing.

Someone else said, today, that everything is falling apart around us, but people just pretend it isn't happening.

He wasn't talking about jobs in Indiana. He was talking about Bush's failure as a president on EVERY level.

Another person told me she comes to the place where I work because she knows I oppose Bush..in other words, she's choosing to spend her money according to her political conscience.

[ozone_man]

9. Bush is going down in flames in election '04.

The job loss/economy will do him in much worse than senior. Any Dem will beat him, well I don't know about Lieberman, since there really isn't any difference (Bush lite). A great opportunity to get the right candidate in, not one offerred up by the DLC. Go Dean.

[LiberalFighter]

11. This might be one coat-tail that will have hangers

Meaning that Mitch Daniels will go down the tube too with Whistle-Ass.

I wonder if it would be possible that Daniels might pull down the numbers for Whistle-Ass. W-A will probably still win Indiana but might be closer than normal.

[goforit]

12. God bless all ya guys in Indy!!!

Vote the Left way next time.

[RainDog]

16. My solution to the job issue

...and I've mentioned this to people, but I don't have the capacity to make it happen. maybe some entrepeneur does and will.

Indiana should become the alternative energy capitol of America.

With all the corn, you know... I read in some magazine recently about one family which has a "corn-fed" heating system for their house. The...sheesh... I just forgot the word!..those old-fashioned used to be coal fed now wood-fed heaters/fireplaces..anyway, these people have one that is fueled by corn. It has a self-loading feature, like one of those cat food providers, which feeds the corn to the heater as needed. I realize that fireplaces also present a problem. I don't know how clean the thing can burn.

Also, with a manufacturing base, making things like solar shingles affordable, along with other non-oil technologies.

Habitat for humanity is building a straw bale house here. Using alternative forms of insulation would be another way to make more chemical-free and affordable housing.

Indiana, since it has lost so many jobs, could, on the other hand, market itself as a eco-tourism place in the southern part of the state, with it's caves and hills...sort of like Belize. Hell, if we're going to be a third world economy under Bush, might as well be one with something decent to offer...

Whoever runs against Daniels, btw, had better make sure they connect the man to Bush's economic policies.

The greens, too, would do us all a favor to create a coalition with dems at this time of crisis in that state and the nation.