No kidding. Not to mention the jobs created as the service industry expands to fulfill the needs of the plant. Restaurants, hotels for travelling employees, maintenance, ongoing physical plant improvement, janitorial, variety stores, you name it. And don't forget that auto factories tend to have babies; meaning locally based feeder plants for parts and operating supplies.
For some perspective, the Navistar truck factory in my home town (Chatham, Ontario) just announced it was closing. Roughly 1000 people out of work for good was the last figure I saw. The bigger picture, though, is the fact that it is estimated (and the plant's been there for like 70 years so there's apparantly data to back this up) that for every one person Navistar employed three locals were employed to support or sell to the factory. So 1,000 jobs becomes 4,000. The plant closing will be like a body slam to the city (only 35,000 pop.).
For the life of me I just can't figure out how they (NAACP) can continue to get away with this cr*p, other than the intimidation and ridicule I mention above.
The NAACP gets away with this because the mainstream media treats it like it's the pre-eminent organization representing blacks, instead of what it is: an antiquated bigoted group whose sole purpose is to stir up discontent so it can continue to reap the economic rewards of victimhood. Guilty white liberals are too busy kowtowing to the NAACP to see the damage the group is doing. Either that, or they're in cahoots with the NAACP and fully support the group's actions, no matter how wrong-headed they may be.