Indianapolis foundry to close Sept. 30, eliminating 881 jobs

The Centre Daily Times ^ | Fri, Aug. 12, 2005 | KEN KUSMER - Associated Press

[ex-snook]

"Second, over the past two decades or so, the U.S. has created more than 40 million jobs--twice as many as Europe and Japan combined."

Two decades? Now the WSJ should stop basking in the pre-Bush years. The metric is how many jobs were created since 2000 when Clinton-Bush made China a permanent favorite trading partner?

[Moral Hazard]

"DaimlerChrysler AG will close its Indianapolis foundry and eliminate 881 jobs by Sept. 30, reducing the automaker's once formidable Indiana manufacturing presence to just the city of Kokomo."

If only Indianapolis had the Beach Boys supporting them the factory would have stayed open!

[Havoc]

Ah, the last ditch salvage attempt at the rep is it. Save face by saying "I was being sarcastic". The Monty python
"what do you mean, Miss? I'm sorry I have a cold.." approach.
Buy a clue.

[DeeOhGee]

What is the net of jobs created and lost vs population growth? What is the growth (or loss) of real income in this same period?

[Havoc]

You mean if only Daimler employees were not competing with the unfair dumping of wage rates overseas? Free trade instead of fair trade - like what Our forefathers complained about till they had to throw off a King and write us a constitution to remedy.. those communist/socialist/facist pinkos. Oh, wait, perhaps I'm not labeling them right. Best correct it.. "Those Protectionists!"

[Moral Hazard]

"You mean if only Daimler employees were not competing with the unfair dumping of wage rates overseas?"

No, I meant the Beach Boys never did a song about Indianapolis.

[Havoc]

Ah, the supplanting sarcasm in hopes someone will accept it for substance approach..

[DeeOhGee]

But let's face it...the Beach Boys thought they were doing a song about a tropical paradise. And it's a dumb song, anyway.

[joesnuffy]

Dont let the pogue warriors and remington raiders get cha down..

We got a boat load of chi com lovers heavily invested in slave labor and illegal alien labor on board all who dare call themselves 'Americans'

There is NO good side to Marxism but there is an evil side
of capitalism/materialism

[DeeOhGee]

I enjoyed the post. Thanks and non illigitamus carborundum.

[Amalie]

Hate to see it go - this was where the first 426 Hemi blocks were cast in late 1963, and it was always fun to see it in operation when I passed by while traveling to Indy over Labor Day weekend.

[epow]

More bad news from Indianapolis. They stopped making Studebakers there in 1966.

IIRC Studebakers were built in South Bend. There may have been a component plant of some kind in Indianapolis, but AFAIK all the cars were assembled in South Bend.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Bush is a failure.

Because you are failing?

[raybbr]

...but its fun to twist his tail :)

You sure seem to spread a lot of job-loss glee on these threads. I almost think you are happy that Americans are losing jobs.

[M Kehoe]

Someone posting the names of companies that added 881 jobs would surely shut you up.

Willie, Don't expect any such postings. You walk the talk. Others just change the topic to you.

According to the Dept. of Labor, 207,000 new jobs were added in July. Click here

;^)

5.56mm

[dakine]

"There are lots of us out here (with serious educations) who live in the real world and read your posts with interest."

Agreeing with ya' about liking Willie's posts....drop the "serious education", it comes across snooty....

[Chode]

The affected workers, most of whom now live in Indianapolis, have been offered jobs at a variety of other DaimlerChrysler plants, he said.

Workers who choose to transfer to another DaimlerChrysler plant instead of retiring receive 95 percent of their base pay after taxes until a new job is found for them, Garner said.

doesn't look like any jobs lost to me... just people changing jobs.

[ex-snook]

"According to the Dept. of Labor, 207,000 new jobs were added in July"

Yep, that's what they say. Sure would be nice if they had put some company names and locations with those numbers, just like Willie does. [well excluding jobs packing factories for export]

[hinckley buzzard]

working two part time jobs with no benefits making less than half my salary and have no time

Anyone with enough time to not only watch "Battlestar Galactica" episodes but write reviews of them for some geek website, obviously has more time on his hands than I do. Pardon me if I don't think Goerge Bush has hurt you any.

[DeeOhGee]

According to the same source, the unemployment rate stayed at 5.0% (a terrific rate in anyone's book). So if 207,000 jobs were added, a proportional amount of jobs were lost. A wash.