Can you imagine half of your town losing their jobs?.....

[Postman]

http://www.economyincrisis.org/articles/show/2080


I wouldn't want to be the Mayor of Wilmington, Ohio.

[ColbertWatcher]

1. I live in LA, so no. n/t

[uppityperson]

2. Yes. I live in a town funded by tourism and a pulp paper mill.

The tourism part has dropped way off, the mill is hanging in there. If it goes under, we will be in a bigger world of hurt.

[gristy]

3. While these job losses are severe, many who work at DHL in Wilmington do not live in Wilmington

The article gives us incomplete info on how many in Wilmington will lose their jobs.

[TahitiNut]

9. Cincinatti and Dayton job markets ... less than an hour's commute.

:shrug:

[Lerkfish]

13. I'm being laid off in Dayton come January

[Strelnikov_]

23. Related to DHL or the 2nd Republican Great Depression in general? n/t

[Lerkfish]

27. not DHL, but a variety of republican-induced great depression things.

:)

thanks for reminding me I can blame the republicans.

[Strelnikov_]

21. ..

20 percent of the region’s businesses depended on the hub and would most likely close.

[bunnies]

4. Yeah. I can.

I just lost half my income (one of my PT jobs) on Friday. And do you know how many jobs are in my local paper?! 19.

Yeah... Its bleak here.

[TomInTib]

7. I am so sorry.

Was it unexpected? Was your job loss caused by our crappy business atmosphere?

Good luck, bunnies.

Tom

[bunnies]

14. Yeah. No warning....

Thurs PM I was informed there was no work for me on Fri.

It was a graphic design job at a sign company two days a week. Monday and Friday. But they paid me $15.00/ hr under the table. My 3 day a week job pays me $10.00 with taxes.

No one around here wants to give a FT job...

How the hell am I sposed to live off 800.00 a month?! Thankfully I dont have to do it myself. Theres no way I'd be able to.

300.00/mo heat bills are coming soon. :banghead:

:hug: Thanks Tom.

Seriously. Thanks for caring. :loveya:

[yardwork]

25. I'm very sorry.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I know a guy who has been a pilot at DHL (formerly Airborne)

for a long time. He is (was) making good money, but I suppose he'll lose his job, too, because he is flying domestic routes. :(

[TomInTib]

6. Heck, half of my Town doesn't work.

But that's another story.

Damn, that is a tough road for Wilmington.

[SoCalDem]

8. This is always the plight of the "company town"

Towns need to be careful when they select their elected officials, since those are the people who court and satisfy demands of companies who do "biddness"..

When any one industry gets a "monster share" of the jobs offered and available in a community, the seeds are sown for future disaster. Corporations are avaricious by nature, and after they have gobbled every last concession from a community, they start looking elsewhere for the next sucker town who would "appreciate " them more.

When businesses were locally owned and operated, they had a real connection to the community, but the "big-shots" are only interested in the bottom line, and those employees and the employees of peripheral businesses that complement them, are no more important to them, than the hammer in the maintenance man's toolbox.. totally replaceable

[TahitiNut]

10. DHL got all kinds of tax 'incentives' to be there.

Live by the sword; die by the sword.
:shrug:

[SoCalDem]

11. Empty Big-boxes dot the landscape... all leftovers from

"deals" cut by shifty politicians..when the tax-holiday expires, they pack their shit up and move to the next sucker..

We have an empty Home Base store with an ENORMOUS parking lot..118K sq ft.. It's been empty for TEN years..Our ccity cops patrol it to keep it from being set afire, it's an eyesore, and the shopping center it once anchored, died too..so there are about 15 empty "stores" that flank it....and guess what? We are putting tilt-ups up all over town for "new" clients..:eyes:

[nichomachus]

17. Circuit City just built a huge new store up the street from me

The building is just standing there empty. I don't even know if it's completely finished. All the construction equipment is gone. All the signs are gone. It's deserted.

[SoCalDem]

20. We have one that OPENED a few weeks ago, and now has

"Going Out of Business Sale" signs hanging on the Grand Opening pennants:rofl:

[JVS]

22. yup.

[CTyankee]

12. I live in New Haven, which has Yale. Everlasting I guess.

Hubby works at city hall, in charge of everything homeless. If he goes, so does the city's homeless agenda. That's no deal to the city now but who knows what will happen? There have been many layoffs...

The value of our house continues to be at a level about $90k above what we owe. But that is mainly because of the "anchor" of our neighborhood's Orthodox synagogue since congregants must walk to shull (Joe Lieberman lived about 4 blocks from my house, but in a more affluent neighborhood).

For now New Haven is hurting but not completely down and out. We don't manufacture anything anymore (Colt Repeating Arms and Winchester closed down over the past few years). We have theatre, arts, restaurants, little boutiques (that come and go), no mall but an Ikea.

Thank god for Yale is all I can say...

[nichomachus]

19. Harvard just announced it's cutting back

Harvard has more money than most countries. It's endowment is huge and it makes more money on its money than anyone -- who says insider trading doesn't work. Harvard made 26% on its endowment last year and is on track to make almost 10% this year -- while the rest of the economy is in double digits the other way.

But, they're still going to lay off.

[CTyankee]

26. I don't know about the Yale scene. I do know that city layoffs are a problem

here in New Haven. It hasn't had a huge impact YET but I expect it to later. No way it can't.

Stay tuned...

[RB TexLa]

15. Is a site with the trash that one has on it allowed to be linked here?

[OhioChick]

16. Ohio is getting pummeled here with job loss.

K&R

[TheFarseer]

18. DeWitt, Nebraska

a town of 500, best known for manufacturing vice grips. 300 of the town's residents are employed making vice grips but that operation is moving to China. uh-oh

[yardwork]

24. 70% of Wilmington voted for Bush-Cheney in 2004.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Wilmington-Ohio.html

[dorkulon]

28. I live in Buffalo, so yeah.

It's already happened here. In fact, I'd say we're almost depression-proof, because it's been the depression here for decades.

[TexasObserver]

29. Saw it last week in the news. Breaks my heart.

These small towns bend over backwards to bring in major industries, and when a plant shuts down, it's devastating.