Whirlpool uses $19M for job creation -uses it to close US factory

[upi402]

Whirlpool: Taking Tax Dollars, Taking Jobs

"It can barely get greedier than this: We're in tough economic times, so Whirlpool receives $19 million in taxpayer funds to create jobs. Then it turns around and announces it will shutter its Evansville, Indiana refrigerator plant and displace the 1,100 workers there."

http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2010/02/letters-to-the-editor-are-flooding-the-local-papers-highlighting-the-devastating-impact-the-closure-will-have-on-the-entire.html

[cutlassmama]

1. Pieces of shit. The government should demand that money back.

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. Just as with TARP, *WHY* don't we have restrictions on these payouts?

As in - you can ONLY use the money to CREATE jobs and you are NOT allowed to offshore for 5 years - or something.

[my2sense]

3. Exactly!

[Romulox]

5. Except that the banksters got TRILLIONS while this story is about a measly $19 mil.

I think our outrage is being managed.

[zbdent]

9. because "regulations are jobkillers!"

can't have any regulation!

wait a little while ...

"Gee, look at all the fraud and waste!"

:eyes:

[upi402]

4. Obama tapped outsourcers; GE's Immelt and Catepillar's Owens for ERA

"General Electric’s Jeffrey Immelt and Caterpillar’s Jim Owens – as the only manufacturing representatives on his Economic Recovery Advisory Board (the so-called Volcker panel..."

[amborin]

6. this is so outrageously unacceptable! similar to CSC outsourcing U.S. gov't jobs!

[upi402]

7. one angry kick

:kick: trying to take back our party

[nebenaube]

8. Whirlpool.... enjoy the trip down the drain - former customer n/t