Blog by Dave Johnson
[Heads-up from Ed Kent]
Whirlpool, recipient of federal stimulus “smart grid” dollars, is closing an Evansville, Indiana freezer-topped refrigerator and icemaker production plant and moving the 1,100 jobs to Mexico.
Whirlpool knows that taxpayers will shoulder the unemployment and other costs. Closing a plant like this also means all the supplier, transportation and other third-party jobs go away. For example, 100+ Disabled Workers Could Lose Jobs.
Read rest of Johnson’s blog here.
Tags: federal stimulus, Whirlpool
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Whirlpool Bites Hands Of American Taxpayers Who Feed It
Blog by Dave Johnson
[Heads-up from Ed Kent]
Whirlpool, recipient of federal stimulus “smart grid” dollars, is closing an Evansville, Indiana freezer-topped refrigerator and icemaker production plant and moving the 1,100 jobs to Mexico.
Whirlpool knows that taxpayers will shoulder the unemployment and other costs. Closing a plant like this also means all the supplier, transportation and other third-party jobs go away. For example, 100+ Disabled Workers Could Lose Jobs.
Read rest of Johnson’s blog here.
Tags: federal stimulus, Whirlpool
This entry was posted on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 at 1:57 pm and is filed under Blogroll, I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, News/Commentary/Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.