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In reply to the discussion: One GM Plant Closing in the US Means Very Little to the Company [View all]Demsrule86
(68,469 posts)36. Youngstown is 15 minutes from Warren...and Pittsburgh is over an hour over some of the worst
roads ever built. I moved from Cortland late this summer. My daughter graduated from YSU and the younger one is going now. I know the area. And I know nurses out of work...we now have one hospital in Youngstown you know...the other closed. Please spare me about the job possibilities in that area. I lived there for a dozen years ...there are few options...and for every auto job, six other jobs go away...three parts plants I can think of in Warren off the top of my head. I will say this. We need manufacturing period without it the prosperity enjoyed by the US which gave rise to the middle class will end inevitably. Those who make things will have the money and the influence. This is the way it always goes.
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Five are closing, and that means a hell of a lot to the people who are working there.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Nov 2018
#1
Don't forget impacts to the parts distributors, logistics, local restaurants, gas stations, etc.
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2018
#20
I think the protestations in the thread are more about the impact to the workers
BumRushDaShow
Nov 2018
#18
I think after Detroit went bust, auto companies started shifting their paradigm of production
ProudLib72
Nov 2018
#23
Who is arguing, from the perspective of the company, this is the end of the world?
LanternWaste
Nov 2018
#34
I love how Trump claims to be anti-global - but keeps saying "they're coming back"
hexola
Nov 2018
#7
The damn fool talks about globalization as evil, but he has businesses all over the globe. The guy
RKP5637
Nov 2018
#11
Try telling the 14,000 or so people losing their jobs how "very little" it means.
WillowTree
Nov 2018
#8
Thanks for sharing corporate logic with us. What's one plant closing in the US anyway? It's of...
brush
Nov 2018
#17
Warren Ohio will be devestated...there are not many jobs and now there will be fewer...so can we
Demsrule86
Nov 2018
#24
Probably not in Warren itself, no; people will need to move closer in to Youngstown or Pittsburgh
Recursion
Nov 2018
#28
Off subject a bit, but the rise in Health Care jobs is often hospice, home-care type jobs
libdem4life
Nov 2018
#31
Youngstown is 15 minutes from Warren...and Pittsburgh is over an hour over some of the worst
Demsrule86
Nov 2018
#36
Not every person can be a nurse or whatever...did you miss the part where I told you one of our
Demsrule86
Nov 2018
#40
Isn't this the deal that The Cretin was "demanding" that they stay in the US?
libdem4life
Nov 2018
#29
What amazes me is that his brand is global, yet he seems to understand nothing about
ProudLib72
Nov 2018
#32