Layoffs and furloughs. . . . . .

[chumbucket]

Same thing everywhere you look. My company is moving a huge portion of it's production to Brazil. This is includes my dept. The first cell of equipment is going to be starting dismantling in two weeks. I'm not sure what's going to happen in the next year or so.
What the greedy multi-national corporations don't get is the more jobs they outsource to increase profit margins, the more the economy is driven down. What's going to happen when the USA will not be able to afford to provide security protection in the developing nations that they are setting up business in? My company also recently started building a factory in Mexico right where all the drug wars are taking place as we speak. Americans being killed, taken for ransom. I can only imagine it'll be a matter of time before the drug lords realize the amount of money each truck container holds before they start hijacking them, then the corporations cry for help from the US govt. Sorry. We're flat busted.

[Blu_Lunch]

It really sucks up here in Connecticut, unemployment hit 9.1% last month. With Pratt and Whitney wants to bail out of this state along with Hamilton Sundstrand {Standard} Yesterday Marlin Firearms announced they are moving down south. The once thriving machine industries here is nearly gone , once even a few years ago you could walk in to any shop and get hired. I have over 25 years of manual and CNC aircraft machining experience. I got layed off 4/08 while I was on comp, I was cleared for work in 12/08 I'm still collecting UC there is no work what so ever here. I can find minimum wage job 40 hours of that I'll be taking another cut on money coming in, I have 20 weeks of UC left I praying for a job..........

[charlie_the_tuna]

i dont think its gonna get better gents. i dont know whats gonna happen but i think we are witnessing the beginning of the end. i hate to say it but build a 12 foot wall around your property and make sure your weapons are loaded because here comes total chaos.
i sure do hope i'm wrong but i think we have taken old mother earth for all she's worth and she just cant handle the current population. there will be anarchy and total lawlessness in the streets. eventually the world as we know it will come to an end. the old girl will heal herself and life will begin again.
sure wish i could be around to see it. should be something else.

[willy]

We will not, cannot let that happen to our country. We will rise above this and flourish. But we may have to grow a spine and do the hard things first for our kids. We will have to participate and vote, this November, we need to put in fiscally responsible people, Constitutional defenders and bring down the over burdening federal government to the level it was supposed to be at.
We need to stand together as neighbors and citizens, not build walls. Prepare ourselves and our families. Hold our politicians feet to the fire and participate, picket, carry a sign, join local tea party or 9/12 or other supporters of fiscal responsibility.
Unlike many other countries we hold the ultimate power

Vote

[parishht]

Chucky is right, a friend of mine was telling me about the government building local "forts" for riot control.
He did tell me the program, but I really didn't pay attention, next time I talk to him, I will get some more information.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by parishht

Chucky is right, a friend of mine was telling me about the government building local "forts" for riot control.
He did tell me the program, but I really didn't pay attention, next time I talk to him, I will get some more information.

IIRC it is page 1312 of this POS obamacare health bill allows the o to now have his own military security force for his own personal use that answers to him independant of the military that we now have.

[cfelton]

I know how all yall feel. I was laid off December 31st, after 32 years of service to Union Camp/ International Paper Corp. Worked on Union Camp Swamp Logging job for 20 years and 12 years at the paper mill. Union Camp merged with International Paper in 1999. They built a new paper mill in Brazil, and that was the end of us! I've recently been going through the hiring process at Nucor Steel Mill in Hertford, N.C. Its been ongoing for 6 months and Im almost finished and ready ta start work! Good Luck to ALL of YOU!! Its tough!