'It's devastating'. End of GM in Ohio town as Trump fails to bring back midwest jobs

[signalmankenneth]

Hell, Trump can't even bring coal jobs back?!!

For years, the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, employed 8,000 workers in the Mahoning valley.

In a rust belt region that has become synonymous with industrial decline, following the closure of its once mighty steel mills in the 1970s, the presence of the Chevrolet factory in Lordstown, and its well-paid manufacturing jobs, was particularly important.

Related: 'A kick in the stomach': massive GM layoffs leave workers distraught – and angry
Then, late last year, GM abruptly shut the plant. The company had already scaled back workers at the Lordstown plant, and this closure saw 1,500 workers, the last of the once huge workforce, out of their jobs.

“I think it’s devastating,” said Mark Sweetwood, the managing editor of the Vindicator newspaper, which serves the Mahoning valley.

“I think it was the last holdout of our industrial age.”

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[LV426]

Boo fucking hoo.

I'm tired of reading stories about people so fucking stupid, they got conned by a reality TV show host.

Enough with these stories. These people are cretins and no one should give a shit about them.

[Guno צְבִי]

I am sure they will vote for trump



We also lost Allegiance Airlines in 2018. So we lost our airport … and the hospital shut down in 2018 as well,” Sweetwood said.

For longtime residents, the end of the GM era is all too familiar. When the US steel industry collapsed in the late 1970s, the area was decimated. As mills closed in nearby Youngstown and elsewhere, people left the area. The population of Youngstown has halved since 1970, while Warren has lost almost a third of its residents.

“The impact is going to hurt everybody in the community, little by little,” said Al Tate, an 86-year-old who sells fruit and vegetables at the Warren farmer’s market.

Three of Tate’s brothers lost their jobs when the mills closed in the late 1970s. Two of them left to find work, and never returned.

“Others did the best they can, trying to make it,” Tate said. He said people who have lost their jobs at GM now face difficult choices.

“They’re hurt now and they’re going to hurt worse later after their [unemployment] benefits stop,” Tate said.

“If you ain’t got nothing coming in, you’ve got nothing to spend. If you’ve never had to live week-to-week, from month-to-month, it’s hard to understand.”

[Superfreak]

[SIZE=3][B]Hell, Trump can't even bring coal jobs back?!!

For years, the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, employed 8,000 workers in the Mahoning valley.

In a rust belt region that has become synonymous with industrial decline, following the closure of its once mighty steel mills in the 1970s, the presence of the Chevrolet factory in Lordstown, and its well-paid manufacturing jobs, was particularly important.

Related: 'A kick in the stomach': massive GM layoffs leave workers distraught – and angry
Then, late last year, GM abruptly shut the plant. The company had already scaled back workers at the Lordstown plant, and this closure saw 1,500 workers, the last of the once huge workforce, out of their jobs.

“I think it’s devastating,” said Mark Sweetwood, the managing editor of the Vindicator newspaper, which serves the Mahoning valley.

[COLOR=#26282A][FONT=&]“I think it was the last holdout of our industrial age.”

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"Lordstown employed 1,600 when GM announced in November it would idle its assembly plants at Detroit-Hamtramck, Lordstown and Oshawa in Ontario by 2020."

So first LIE by the left exposed... 1600 worked there as of last November.

Also... GM is in negotiations with Workhorse to buy the plant. Workhorse said if they get the sale done, they plan to produce electric vans in the facility to start with.

So not only would workers be added to the plant, but the plant would be producing more environmentally friendly vehicles.

yet the left wing morons continue to LIE about what is happening.

Funny thing... the UAW is fighting to force GM to continue producing their crappy vehicles at the plant. The UAW doesn't care about the workers or the city, they just want to maintain forced membership.

[Superfreak]

Why does the left hate a company that produces all electric vehicles?

[Rune]

Why does the left hate a company that produces all electric vehicles?

Trump killed this plant you fucking mo.

[anatta]

GM is in negotiations with Workhorse to buy the plant. Workhorse said if they get the sale done, they plan to produce electric vans in the facility to start with.

So not only would workers be added to the plant, but the plant would be producing more environmentally friendly vehicles.

[Superfreak]

Trump killed this plant you fucking mo.

LINK

[Superfreak]

Trump killed this plant you fucking mo.

What killed the plant was the weak sales for the model of vehicle produced at the plant. The Chevy Cruze.

Are you suggesting Trump force people to stop buying the Cruze?

Are you too stupid to see that if the sale goes through (has to get UAW approval) that the plant will then be producing electric vehicles by Workhorse?

Are you too stupid to realize that Workhorse would likely add more jobs to the community than were 'lost' due to the crappy GM car that was not selling and thus the plant was idled?

"http://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/chevrolet/cruze/chevrolet-cruze-sales-numbers/"

That is what killed the plant

[PoliTalker]

Hey, we tried to tell them Trump was bad juju.

And the amazing thing is, even after Trump failed on so many promises, they still find a way to back him.

It's hard to imagine unemployed laid-off people being turned out of work by the thousands in a small town, able to get good well-paying replacement jobs and being so happy about it they would continue to vote for Trump, but I'm sure they'll find a way to deny and justify. Nothing seems to faze their support. Lies, facts, consequences.

What we are going to have to do is pledge to turn out by the millions to vote for better choices.

It we don't, look what we could GET!

[Superfreak]

Hey, we tried to tell them Trump was bad juju.

And the amazing thing is, even after Trump failed on so many promises, they still find a way to back him.

It's hard to imagine unemployed laid-off people being turned out of work by the thousands in a small town, able to get good well-paying replacement jobs and being so happy about it they would continue to vote for Trump, but I'm sure they'll find a way to deny and justify. Nothing seems to faze their support. Lies, facts, consequences.

What we are going to have to do is pledge to turn out by the millions to vote for better choices.

It we don't, look what we could GET!

Yet another left wing moron that doesn't bother to actually educate himself on what is going on.

[Rune]

What killed the plant was the weak sales for the model of vehicle produced at the plant. The Chevy Cruze.

Are you suggesting Trump force people to stop buying the Cruze?

Are you too stupid to see that if the sale goes through (has to get UAW approval) that the plant will then be producing electric vehicles by Workhorse?

Are you too stupid to realize that Workhorse would likely add more jobs to the community than were 'lost' due to the crappy GM car that was not selling and thus the plant was idled?

"http://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/chevrolet/cruze/chevrolet-cruze-sales-numbers/"

That is what killed the plant

What hurt sales of the Cruz was the 25% tarrifs imposed by Trump.

That is what killed the plant.

[Truth Detector]

Hell, Trump can't even bring coal jobs back?!!

I thought you hypocritical lying leftists hated coal and cars? Can't make up your minds what you hate anymore?

Yeah, Trump is the reason GM has been closing this plant for decades you dunce.

[Centerleftfl]

Can't be! Trump said so. Just like all those CARRIER jobs he saved--until all the cameras went home. Just like the UNION leader said would happen.

[Truth Detector]

I'm tired of reading stories about people so fucking stupid, they got conned by a reality TV show host.

This from a fucking idiot who thinks that tax increases lead to increased economic activity and support leftist dumb fucks who would destroy the economy. STFU you brain dead loon.

You should kill yourself. You're a nobody. You'll always be a nobody. You're a moron. You will always be a moron. No one will miss you. No one would care. The worlds collective IQ would increase and it would save the valuable oxygen you waste with every breath.