"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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plantsman wrote:

Bull! to Newsmax. I don't care how they cook the books on this one,
jobs
are not being created in Tennessee and more are going way south or
far
east
every day. In just my area of NE TN, in the past ten years, we've
lost
something to the tune of better than 6,000 manufacturing jobs and
over
1,000
more engineering and support jobs for the area's industry. That's
almost a
quarter of all industrial jobs here. Even Burger King has taken down
their
"Help Wanted" signs. I'm a Republican but if the Bush team succeeds
in
measuring burger flippin' as a manufacturing job, them I'm going to
reconsider my vote come November. Real estate here is a mini-mansion
buyers
market, as so many white collar folks have had to pull up and
relocate
when
their $100K+ jobs evaporated due to cutbacks. It's still not over,
more
layoffs are expected as the area's largest employer, Eastman
Chemical,
sells
off one of their divisions and potentially 2,000+ people will be
impacted.
We've got Bechtel mechanical and chemical engineers delivering pizzas
and
working for the newspaper in an effort to keep from having to move
away
and
loose their butts on their homes. It is the pits! My former
employer
(industrial equipment/supply) (I retired in July due to illness) went
from
having over thirty people working to only about eleven, due to the
fallout
from Eastman basically stopping in their tracks. They're not
optimistic
about surviving as a company. Several competitors and related
companies
have already bellied-up. Everyone from car dealers, furniture
stores,
and
everyone except Wal-Mart has been impacted.

David S.
Kingsport, TN



Cheap labor...the dream of Republicans everywhere. If you want a sea
change, do what you can to ensure Bush does not steal a second term.
The
Bush-ites don't give a crap about working men and women.

What is Kerry or Edwards going to do to get 2,000,000-3,000,000 new
jobs?



After four years of Bush, just stopping the negative outflow of our
life's blood would be a miracle.

Then you better declare a miracle has already happened...since we've had 5
straight months of job *GROWTH*.