Poof !!! 6,450 Jobs Gone in a Day. 4,000 in NC. Bush No Help.

[HFishbine]

"In what North Carolina officials are calling the largest mass job loss in state history, Pillowtex Corp. closed its 16 plants in the United States and Canada on Wednesday andterminated 6,450 workers, more than 4,000 of them in North Carolina."

The textile industry has been screaming for help. Bush has turned a deaf ear.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, any dem serious about a "southern strategy" must make manufacturing job losses issue number one. More than geographic origin, good looks, guns, or war experience, southern voters are going to turn to a candidate who offers a plan to put people back to work.

http://www.news-record.com/news/local/rock/pillowtex31.htm

(EDIT: Sorry, forgot the link)

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Is there a link to this?

Thanks.

[DarkPhenyx]

3. THe only thing I've seen on it...

...has been local coverage. Lots of stuff on NPR.

You might find something here, http://www.news-observer.com/ , but I ahven't been able to get into their site this morning.

[OneTwentyoNine]

4. Here's one--they went bankrupt...

http://www.pillowtex.com/en/index.shtml

I don't know if we can bail out every company going bankrupt in the US but I sure as hell know this wouldn't have happened to Boeing or some other huge military contractor.

David

[whoYaCallinAlib]

8. Ain't that the truth.

Bush wouldn't let an energy company or military contractor go under. No way.

[DarkPhenyx]

2. At a bare minimum Edwards...

...needs to get his ass in here adn start kicking up dust. There have been a lot of promises made to these people. He needs to make sure they get taken care of. They are still his people.

[Wickster]

5. And where is Sen. Dole?

Typical Repug - promises, promises. We could have had a great Senator from NC - someone who might have gotten something done - Erskine Bowles. But nooooooh, Liddy has to assure the textile workers that she had a "plan" to get more jobs into NC. Some plan!

It took her almost two years to get an email address! (But her campaign site emailed the world every week).

And Edwards? He is not paying attention to anything but his campaign. We continue to get ripped off here in NC - first Jesse, now Liddy. ;(

New Zealand looks better every day.

[rock]

6. It's easy to see why

Republicans don't think the president has anything to do with the economy and why democrats think the opposite.

[wontmoveon]

7. NOT!!!!!!

To most white southerners RACE is the big issue and they will continue to cut off their noses
to spite their faces. Otherwise they never would have elected Ronnie and GW. The campaign code
words are very subtle but clearly understood. Besides, the majority of the people working in
textile factories are minorities and illegal immigrants ...they would be glad to get rid of both.
I am from the south and believe me I know what I am talking about. Dems have always missed
the point concerning southern politics. Only when the Dixicrats (Dems who eventually became Republicans)
were in positions of influence in the Dem party did the Dems have a chance in the south.
Clinton was more of a backlash against the preppy Bush-1 who was only given a chance on Reagan's
coattails. It was and is Clinton's embrace of blacks and other minorities that made he so hated
and despised over his terms. He made it to the second term because he did so much healing for
the country and the world during his first term that the apathetic left got off their duffs and voted for
him, along with some uperwardly mobile groupies and entrpeneurs. But by the time the dust had
settled, the cabal that had been after him all along had their people and money in place to ravish
his final days in office and it has been brutal politics ever since. The south has still not matured...NAFTA
was just another layer of icing on the cake. Most people don't really understand that NAFTA could
have worked had not the corporate giants decided that excessive profit was much more important
than true patriotism. Until people learn who really owns and controls these industries (a lot are not
even US citizens or they hold dual citizenships around the world) America will for ever be at the mercy
of charletons of all stripes.

[ZenLefty]

9. Hi HFishbine

When posting in LBN, please use the actual article headline as the title of your post. Thanks.

"Thousands left jobless as 16 plants close doors"

ZenLefty
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