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AnotherMcIntosh

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4. If companies such as Master Lock are shown as successes, it might help to know the employment number
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 11:51 AM
Jul 2012

And it might help to know how do we keep the local newspapers from running stories such as this:

At a White House economics conference ..., Obama gave center stage to the (Master Lock) manufacturer as "a source of optimism and enormous potential for the future of America" after it shifted 100 jobs from China back to its flagship factory in Milwaukee. ... But when Obama visits Milwaukee on Wednesday to once again tout the company's successes - assuming he peers out his limousine windows as his motorcade ap proaches the factory - he would see a vastly different global-age phenomenon.

Master Lock amounts to an oasis of employment and competitiveness in the heart of one of the nation's poorest inner cities.

While the plant hums with automation and metal presses, what lies outside is an industrial graveyard. Master Lock is the sole survivor in a west side industrial corridor that's been ravaged by global competition, unrelenting deindustrialization and the deepest recession since the Depression. Nearly all other factories around it are dark and stretch for miles in a canyon of concrete and barbed wire.

"It's the epicenter of Milwaukee's economic decline over the past generation," said Marc Levine, director of the Center for Economic Development at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
http://www.jsonline.com/business/master-lock-succeeds-as-surrounding-area-fails-u446e26-139266023.html


And it might help to know how to keep local newspapers from publishing information showing the de-industrialization, like the map for the area near the Master Lock factory in Milwaukee showing that the 9,000 jobs at the A.O. Smith company, and others, are now gone: http://media.jsonline.com/documents/INFANTZIP13G1-3.pdf

If there is an absence of numbers to convince uncommitted voters that America is re-industrializing, wouldn't it be better to simply say that Obama is not Rmoney?
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