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Democrat Senator causes loss of jobs in Pennsylvania
myself | 2/16/07 | MojoWire

Posted on 02/16/2007 6:56:43 AM PST by Edit35

(Hershey, Pa. 02/16/07)Recently elected Democrat US Sen. Bob Casey Jr. has already caused the loss of 1500 quality high-paying jobs at chocolate giant Hershey Co., analysts confirmed today. Hershey made the announcement along with a statement saying they would instead launch plans to build a new factory in Mexico. (per AP writer Peter Jackson)


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: caseyjr; democrats; goodjobs; jobs; pennsylvania; santorum; union; unions
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1 posted on 02/16/2007 6:56:46 AM PST by Edit35
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To: MojoWire

(cont)Casey is not expected to take responsibility for the loss, despite the fact that he, along with the Democrat machine, blamed previous Penna. Sen. Rick Santorum for every single job loss in the Keystone State over the past 12 years.
Hypocracy is not in the Democratic vocabulary, critics noted, except when Democrats are sliming Republicans with false accusations.


2 posted on 02/16/2007 6:59:02 AM PST by Edit35
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To: MojoWire

Of course this self written article is all tongue in cheek.

But it goes a long way to show how phony and slanted the media was this past election cycle in furthering Democratic propoaganda about the "reason" for any Pennsylvania job loss whatsoever.


3 posted on 02/16/2007 7:02:20 AM PST by Edit35
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To: MojoWire
Recently elected Democrat US Sen. Bob Casey Jr. has already caused the loss of 1500 quality high-paying jobs at chocolate giant Hershey Co., analysts confirmed today.

How so? Read this in the WSJ this AM ... no mention of job loss attributed to Se. Bob Casey. Ross Perot use to speak about the giant sucking sound as jobs were lost to Mexico as a result of NA free trade agreement ... now you're beginning to see evidence.

4 posted on 02/16/2007 7:03:28 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: MojoWire

Just as long as they don't raise the prices on my Reese's peanut butter cups.


5 posted on 02/16/2007 7:09:07 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: MojoWire
It was only 5 years ago that Hershey tried to sell it's holdings to Nestle. The state stepped and stopped the transaction from taking place. The state must have forgotten to make sure Hershey could not operate as a private business and make decisions to maximize earnings.
6 posted on 02/16/2007 7:10:52 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: MojoWire

And Sherrod Brown and Ted Strickland have cost Ohio Chrysler jobs. Aren't they off to a great start?


7 posted on 02/16/2007 7:15:35 AM PST by mak5
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To: MojoWire
You make this all up and then say how it shows "how phony and slanted the media was this past election cycle in furthering Democratic propoaganda about the "reason" for any Pennsylvania job loss whatsoever."?

I don't follow that reasoning. If you made this up, how does that show anything about the media? If you want to show that, how about an actual article and compare it with facts proving otherwise. That's easy enough to do, with plenty of examples out there.
8 posted on 02/16/2007 7:15:58 AM PST by prous
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To: MojoWire

PA the land of shrinking jobs.


9 posted on 02/16/2007 7:17:18 AM PST by bmwcyle (If no one buys illegal drugs, we win the war on drugs)
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To: Dixie Yooper

It was Republican Attorney General Mike Fisher (who lost to Rendell for governor in '02) who stepped in to stop the Hershey Trust from selling the shares it owned (I think 77% of the company) to Nestle. The company didn't want to sell, it was the Trust, which runs the Hershey School, that wanted to diversify its holdings.


10 posted on 02/16/2007 7:18:35 AM PST by mak5
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To: BluH2o
This has zero to do with NAFTA.

Hershey wanted to keep everything in PA by raising new investment capital via a partnership with Nestle, but the state government forbid them to do so.

11 posted on 02/16/2007 7:20:05 AM PST by wideawake
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To: mak5
The company didn't want to sell, it was the Trust, which runs the Hershey School, that wanted to diversify its holdings.

Then it must be the Trust that wants to make more money by moving to Mexico to hire legal Mexican citizens to make it's chocolate.

12 posted on 02/16/2007 7:35:09 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: BluH2o
Ross Perot use to speak about the giant sucking sound as jobs were lost to Mexico as a result of NA free trade agreement ... now you're beginning to see evidence.

Actually, it's just the opposite. It is US restrictions on the import of sugar that has been driving American candy makers to both Canada and Mexico. Those import restrictions are designed to protect a mere handful of very wealth sugar cane farmers in Florida and Louisiana while killing many thousands of jobs in other states. But it's a very powerful lobby that has made American candy makers uncompetitive on the world market.

13 posted on 02/16/2007 7:43:24 AM PST by Ditto
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Pennsylvania sucks. 80 and 81 are still closed, three days after a storm. PA gets what it deserves and they deserve a liberal garbage government.
14 posted on 02/16/2007 7:45:16 AM PST by angcat ("IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM")
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To: Ditto
Those import restrictions are designed to protect a mere handful of very wealth sugar cane farmers in Florida and Louisiana ...

Well there's also the sugar beet farmers in the U.S. who produce far more than the sugar
cane people. Sugar imports coming from low cost production countries can impact prices
from U.S. sources to some extent, but not significantly.

15 posted on 02/16/2007 7:56:40 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: angcat

AMEN!!!! Maybe these 'stay at home, show you a lesson' republicans we have in this state will get off their A$$es this next time and vote REPUBLICAN!!!!


16 posted on 02/16/2007 7:58:55 AM PST by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: mak5
The company didn't want to sell, it was the Trust, which runs the Hershey School, that wanted to diversify its holdings.

The Hershey Trust--which is worth over $6 billion--owns not just the school, but 30% of the candy company and 100% of the amusement park and related ventures like the Hershey Bears hockey team and Hotel Hershey. The Milton Hershey school is a very impressive place--having a few billion bucks to play with will do that.
17 posted on 02/16/2007 7:58:59 AM PST by drjimmy
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To: BluH2o
Sugar imports coming from low cost production countries can impact prices from U.S. sources to some extent, but not significantly. They would drop by at least 50%. I call that significant.

This ironically, also plays into energy politics. Read this. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/061127ta_talk_surowiecki

What’s stopping the U.S. from doing the same? In a word, politics. The favors granted to the sugar industry keep the price of domestic sugar so high that it’s not cost-effective to use it for ethanol. And the tariffs and quotas for imported sugar mean that no one can afford to import foreign sugar and turn it into ethanol, the way that oil refiners import crude from the Middle East to make gasoline. Americans now import eighty per cent less sugar than they did thirty years ago. So the prospects for a domestic-sugar ethanol industry are dim at best. We could, of course, simply import sugar ethanol. But here, too, politics has intervened: Congress has imposed a tariff of fifty-four cents per gallon on sugar-based ethanol in order to protect corn producers from competition. A recent study by Amani Elobeid and Simla Tokgoz, scientists at Iowa State University, projected that if the tariffs were removed prices would fall by fourteen per cent and Americans would use almost three hundred million gallons more of ethanol.

But that isn’t likely to happen anytime soon: the Bush Administration proposed eliminating the ethanol tariff this past spring, but Congress quickly quashed the idea—Barack Obama was among several Midwestern senators who campaigned in support of the tariff—and the sugar quotas appear to be as sacrosanct as ever. Tariffs and quotas are extremely hard to get rid of, once established, because they create a vicious circle of back-scratching—government largesse means that sugar producers get wealthy, giving them lots of cash to toss at members of Congress, who then have an incentive to insure that the largesse continues to flow. More important, protectionist rules flourish because the benefits are concentrated among a small number of easy-to-identify winners, while the costs are spread out across the entire population. It may be annoying to pay a few more cents for sugar or ethanol, but most of us are unlikely to lobby Congress about it.

Maybe we should, though. Our current policy is absurd even by Washington standards: Congress is paying billions in subsidies to get us to use more ethanol, while keeping in place tariffs and quotas that guarantee that we’ll use less. And while most of the time tariffs just mean higher prices and reduced competition, in the case of ethanol the negative effects are considerably greater, leaving us saddled with an inferior and less energy-efficient technology and as dependent as ever on oil-producing countries. Because of the ethanol tariffs, we’re imposing taxes on fuel from countries that are friendly to the U.S., but no tax at all on fuel from countries that are among our most vehement opponents. Congressmen justify the barriers to foreign ethanol with talk of “energy security.” But how is the U.S. more secure when it has to import oil from Venezuela rather than ethanol from Brazil? These tariffs are bad economic policy, bad energy policy, and bad foreign policy. Talk about your Domino effect.


18 posted on 02/16/2007 8:17:25 AM PST by Ditto
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To: HarleyLady27
Hiya,

I wish a news reporter would interview me I would say just what you did. My coworker (who I hate to discuss politics with) but I just happen to mention how Rendell sucks and he said he voted for Fast Eddie. I asked him "I thought you were a Republican". He said that he did not think a former football player would make a good Governor. I told him "but a thug from Pittsburgh does" ....BANGING MY HEAD ON DESK. HE ALSO WATCHES GOOD MORNING AMERICA! BANGING BANGING.....


Can't wait for Rush for some sanity!
19 posted on 02/16/2007 8:28:53 AM PST by angcat ("IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM")
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That's a little extreme! I was born in PA and after living in several other states, I live here now. Yep. We have problems. Everyone does. And yeah, Fast Eddie is a disaster.

But the mess on I-80 is an every winter event. And a foggy weather one as well. Typically, it's caused by someone driving too fast for conditions. I agree, PENNDOT might be able to do more, but you can't fix stupid in every driver.


20 posted on 02/16/2007 8:31:23 AM PST by trimom
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