http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-ford_apr13,0,5800094.story?coll=dp-widget-news
The Governor quickly responded with this press release:
+óGé¼+ôThis is very, very disappointing news. I pledge my administration+óGé¼Gäós best efforts to help these proud, hard-working employees and their families.+óGé¼+ôThe Norfolk plant has a long and proud history. Company founder Henry Ford helped open the facility in 1925, and in recent years it has been Ford+óGé¼Gäós highest-rated producer of the best-selling F-150 pickup truck.
+óGé¼+ôI traveled to Ford Motor Company headquarters in Detroit in mid-February, immediately after the company announced 14 domestic plant-closings. I met with top executives of Ford to discuss efforts the Commonwealth was prepared to undertake to ensure the future of the company+óGé¼Gäós Norfolk Assembly plant.
+óGé¼+ôWe will continue to make the case that Ford should reconsider this decision, or at least delay the scheduled date for ending operations at the Norfolk Assembly plant.
+óGé¼+ôIf that effort is not successful, my administration will work with the company, local and regional leaders, organized labor, and others to try to minimize the eventual impact of this announcement on the Hampton Roads community.
+óGé¼+ôThe Norfolk Assembly plant has a skilled, motivated, proven workforce +óGé¼GÇ£ and my administration will do everything it can to help Norfolk and the Hampton Roads region market this resource to other economic development prospects.+óGé¼-¥
Isn't it about time that they began to reevaluate this foolish paradigm?
The Chinese are set to offer a ten thousand dollar sedan into the US this year.
Ford and GM can continue this outsourcing/worker replacement race to the bottom turning the middle class American society into a Third World market or they can attempt an orderly reevaluation with our political leaders of both parties.
My bet is that they'll continue their brain-dead march off the cliff.
We should point out the obvious: industrial outsourcing and white collar/knowledge job outsourcing share the same illogical suppositions and the combination of blue collar and white collar middle class job outsourcing is turning the U.S. into a Third World nation.
How many people shop at Wal-Mart and buy cheap foreign cars because they have lost their middle class jobs, can't find middle class jobs and have stagnant wages while CEOs and investors reap a windfall?