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I Happen to live in Greenville and know a bit about what I am saying versus the BS on this thread.

Nobody is challenging you facts, just any suggestion of what should be done about it.

I don't know why the company was sold to Electrolux, but I'm sure that the decision to sell wasn't easy. I'm also sure that receiving an offer from a foreign country to buy the factory was a far better choice than shutting it down. But that would not have been possible without the U.S. having a stance toward open trade borders.

As to the residents unwillingness to work for $4/hour, when the choice is between moving you company to Mexico or shutting down completely, it doesn't matter which you choose, the U.S. employees are screwed. There just isn't money in manufacturing commodities here in the U.S. There isn't money manufacturing wagon wheels either, but nobody complains about that because the covered wagon industry is history.

I don't mean to sound uncaring or unfeeling. The answer isn't to hold jobs hostage in the U.S., the answer is to retrain the workers. Smart workers saw the truth coming and found something else they could do a long time ago. Check out the movie "October Sky" when you get a chance.

It's tough when things change and change creates hardship. But the alternative is stagnation and death. Hardship isn't the ultimate evil anyway.

Shalom.

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"As to the residents unwillingness to work for $4/hour,"

How much is minimum wage again?

"But that would not have been possible without the U.S. having a stance toward open trade borders."

What does open trade borders have to do with a foriegn company buying a plant in the US? Nothing, that happened even before the trade borders were opened.

"the answer is to retrain the workers"

Retrain the to do what? There are only a limited number of service related jobs that can be created. If you look at the number of doctors that are not American, you will notice that that number has increased. A job is a job, they should be kept here. When do we say enough to them being sent overseas? When the number of employed and available jobs is over whelmingly less that the number of people unemployed? How about trying to avoid that from happening?