Replying to a message of PETER COGGON to BOB ACKLEY:

 PC>   It seems, they're going for the bailout, Bob....    Here in CANADA
 PC> and the USA.    Locally here we have lost a supplier, to now 50% of
 PC> the town out of a job.

Well, Red Oak, IA, used to have a company called Romech.  They made seats
for US autos.  The company owner moved the jobs to Mexico, which doesn't
have the picky OSHA rules and where it doesn't have to provide the workers
with safety equipment - like welding helmets for welders, the poor sods have
no eye protection and they're doing arc welding.  The Romech plant is, of course,
closed and vacant now, and about 400 people no longer have jobs there.

Just up the road from Romech is a Parker Hannifin plant that makes hydraulic
pressure hoses.  On January 6th they're letting 50 people go due to lack of
work for them.  Down the road in Shenandoah, IA, the Eaton plant laid off about
150 people two months ago due to lack of work for them, they make transmission
parts there.

That's just about 600 jobs gone from two towns that have a combined population of
about 16,000.

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