10 o'clock news tells of layoffs

[firefox]

Furniture is an important industry in the piedmont and foothills of NC. Thomasville Industries out of Thomasville announced that they will cut 800 jobs through November. Broyhill Furniture out of Lenoir announced they would cut 460 jobs through November.

Jim Broyhill was the son of the founder and a former Congressman and Senator. I have heard it said he was the richest man in Congress, not that it has anything to do with anything.

Lenoir and Caldwell County were already a depressed area. I imagine most people would be shocked at the reasonableness of the real estate if they checked it out on the Internet.

[merbex]

1. And GM planning to cut 25,000 jobs

So where is the anger?

Because, it doesn't have t be this way America!

And by voting for B* you've accelerated the process

[katinmn]

9. GM blames healthcare costs for part of the problem

The CEO said they have to add $1500 per vehicle to cover the cost of insuring one worker.

Yoo hoo! Is it time for universal health care yet?

The worker bees that make the fat cats rich are soon to be unemployed. Just in time for the new no-bankruptcy law to take effect.

God bless America.

Why aren't people angry yet?

[Deja Q]

2. How many jobs will open up in China?

[firefox]

4. 30 percent of furniture comes from China

Last year, the number I heard said thirty percent of our furniture now comes from China.

[Democrats_win]

3. Doesn't make sense given the housing boom.

Broyhill has a quality reputation too.

[Walt Starr]

5. People buy houses

and use milk crates for furniture because they are too deeply indebted.

[merbex]

10. My husband's relatives own a moving company

I have been told by their salesperson who does the estimates for a move that in one of our area's highest upscale neighborhoods there is practically no furniture in 2 out of 3 houses:

kitchen table,
one sofa
2 chairs
mattresses and box springs on a frame sometimes on the floor (no bed)

All this in 4-5 bedroom McMansion with up to the minute luxury car or SUV

Frauds;only showoff what you can see from the outside

[firefox]

6. Furniture and trucking are indicative of a recession

Furniture layoffs are common historically because the first thing people can do without is new furniture. Furniture and textiles generally are regarded as low-wage industries and what gravy people came by because of their jobs in the furniture factory came because of overtime. You have to realize that in a place with surplus labor, overtime is something to only dream of. Things really suck around here.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. The people in India need work too!

And they'll work cheap! A lot of furniture being imported now, just like everything else is being imported!

The downhill slide will do nothing but gain speed from this point on! The GOP has wrecked the entire country! Trickle, Trickle, Trickle, but the fools who voted for four more years of Bushco, because of the "Morality" issue, are going to get as hungry as we democrats are, and "Morality" don't feed your kids! I guess the fools thought that it would be the moral thing to do, to ship their job overseas and then sit back and watch their kids starve! The GOPer faithful can shove "Morality" down those kids throats 24/7, but the kids bellies will still be about as empty as Bush's campaign promises!

[Ilsa]

8. NPR did an interview with the owner of Bassett last year.

He said he can't compete with all of the cheap crap with a pretty stain that comes from Indonesia, China, etc. All he wants is fair trade -- a shot at a fair deal. But he will probably have to lay people off just to stay in business. He also said that furniture exec that he knew wouldn't support Bush (this was in 2004).