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Remington Arms moving 2,000+ jobs from NY to Alabama
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<blockquote data-quote="boondocks" data-source="post: 1104450" data-attributes="member: 20599"><p><strong>First</strong>, other sources note that the new Remington plant is an expansion and will not take away from the plant in Ilion NY--which is literally down the road from me, and I know many people who work there.</p><p><strong>Second</strong>, to those of you afraid that Remington may bring darn Yankees with their crazy liberal ideas down your way: please be advised that this is a very rural/small town farming area. Very hardscrabble, and quite Republican, I might add, FWIW. Lots of hunting, ATVing...most of you (y'all?) would feel quite at home up here. Well, other than the subzero temps. And you'd have to learn snowmobiling.</p><p><strong>Third:</strong> When did it become a conservative value to take up for a huge bunch of crazy rich guys over a fellow working man? Remington is not your grandpa's (or greatgrandma's) gun manufacturer. It's now owned by Cerberus, a New York City-based private equity firm whose founder has a net worth (per Forbes) of 1 billion. How much is he gonna pay the workers at that new plant? And what local and state "incentives" (read: bribes paid with taxpayer money) were given in order to entice His Nibs to locate his plant in Alabama?</p><p></p><p>I for one am tired of the corporate welfare. Thanks to "free trade", we've lost so much American manufacturing that the little bit that's left, we all fight over the scraps, while the robber barons eat caviar. Worse yet, we turn on each other, dividing into "red" and "blue" states. </p><p></p><p>These constant plant relocations/closings/reopenings are just a race to the bottom. Think we're about there... They won't pay a living wage, so the rest of the taxpayers have to also kick in and subsidize many of these great new jobs: on the front end, with tax abatements, etc.; on the middle end, with health care and other help, since the jobs often don't come with it now; and on the back end, when they pack up and leave, and leave behind a rusting plant and toxic waste. But that's "Capitalism", so we applaud it, right?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boondocks, post: 1104450, member: 20599"] [b]First[/b], other sources note that the new Remington plant is an expansion and will not take away from the plant in Ilion NY--which is literally down the road from me, and I know many people who work there. [b]Second[/b], to those of you afraid that Remington may bring darn Yankees with their crazy liberal ideas down your way: please be advised that this is a very rural/small town farming area. Very hardscrabble, and quite Republican, I might add, FWIW. Lots of hunting, ATVing...most of you (y'all?) would feel quite at home up here. Well, other than the subzero temps. And you'd have to learn snowmobiling. [b]Third:[/b] When did it become a conservative value to take up for a huge bunch of crazy rich guys over a fellow working man? Remington is not your grandpa's (or greatgrandma's) gun manufacturer. It's now owned by Cerberus, a New York City-based private equity firm whose founder has a net worth (per Forbes) of 1 billion. How much is he gonna pay the workers at that new plant? And what local and state "incentives" (read: bribes paid with taxpayer money) were given in order to entice His Nibs to locate his plant in Alabama? I for one am tired of the corporate welfare. Thanks to "free trade", we've lost so much American manufacturing that the little bit that's left, we all fight over the scraps, while the robber barons eat caviar. Worse yet, we turn on each other, dividing into "red" and "blue" states. These constant plant relocations/closings/reopenings are just a race to the bottom. Think we're about there... They won't pay a living wage, so the rest of the taxpayers have to also kick in and subsidize many of these great new jobs: on the front end, with tax abatements, etc.; on the middle end, with health care and other help, since the jobs often don't come with it now; and on the back end, when they pack up and leave, and leave behind a rusting plant and toxic waste. But that's "Capitalism", so we applaud it, right? [/QUOTE]
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