The Romney Economy Part 2: Sensata shuts down plant in panic!
by David Pinar on Oct. 19, 2012, under Pol. & Govt.
Photo courtesy of the brave Sensata workers at
Bainport.
The Sensata plant at Freeport Illinois shut down early today, closing
the plant for the entire weekend, barricading the entrances and telling
2nd shift workers not to report. They’re doing this out of panic. What
are they afraid of?
That’s right – they’re afraid of The Ed Show! That would be MSNBC’s
Ed Shultz, who does an hour long show from 5PM-6Pm Arizona time on
MSNBC. And tonight
he’s broadcasting his show live from Bainport, the tent city Sensata workers have set up across the road from the Sensata factory.
Panic!!!
Ed Shultz is coming to Freeport! Send the workers home and barricade
the entrances! He might try to come over and ask us some questions,
questions we don’t want to answer. Questions like since you sell
your sensors to GM & Chrysler and subsidiaries of Siemens, who sells
them to Japanese car makers with assembly factories in the US, why are
you moving your operation to China, thousands of miles away, even though
you claim it’s to be “closer” to your customers? It couldn’t be because
even though the Freeport factory set profit records last year
with American workers,
you think you can make even more profits paying Chinese workers 99
cents an hour? To hell with American workers, to hell with the economic
devastation your plant closure will have on the community of Freeport –
cheap Chinese workers = even more profit. Our investors will be able to
build an elevator for their cars!
The Sensata Freeport factory is now scheduled to close November 5 –
the day before the election. On election day Sensata workers will go
cast their ballots, and then go file for unemployment compensation, many
for the first time in their life –
unless we, the American people can get them to stop it! Go to
Bainport.com and sign their petition. Write your Congress and Senate representatives.
And watch the Ed Show tonight, at 5PM Arizona time, for the real story of what’s happening at Sensata Freeport/Bainport.
The Romney Economy – all our manufacturing jobs outsourced to China,
while we all work at Walmart or McDonalds. Sensata is owned by Bain
Capital –
Mitt Romney could stop this plant closing tomorrow if he really wanted to “stand up to China” like he claims.
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#OBAMA 2012
#EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN
#EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL PEOPLE
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How
can the American people vote for unpatriotic Romney who is a liar and
conspirator to create the downfall of America by closing factories,
firing workers, and shipping the factories and jobs to China?
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We
the American people need to stop this at any cost. Anarchy is
coming..this is the start of our future...this generation has not had to
make sacrafices. Our parents stood in picket lines to make our lives
better. The time is coming ...politicians won't listen...we need to
act..whatever it takes.
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Is this the same Sensata Industries that's associated with President Obama's pension from Illinois?
"President Barack Obama and his supporters continue to slash at Gov. Mitt
Romney for keeping some of his private-sector wealth overseas, even
though the president’s Illinois pension is also invested in Chinese
companies and a fund in the Cayman Islands."
...
"The president’s overseas wealth is part of the pension he earned from
his six years in Democratic-run Illinois legislature. The pension, which
is worth between $50,000 and $100,000, is managed by the Illinois State Board of Investment."
...
"The [pension] board’s 2011 report said it owned a $1 million bank
loan held by Sensata Technologies. Obama’s share of that loan is under a
dollar. Sensata is closing its U.S. facility to move 170 jobs into
China,
prompting outrage from Democrats, who have used Sensata as a club
against Romney. The GOP presidential nominee’s money-managers have also invested a slice of his wealth in the company."
How bad can Sensata Technologies be, if Democratic Party-dominated
Illinois invests in it? Or, is Chinese money OK if DEMOCRATS benefit
from it?
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10.... (Click on this link at your own risk; the source is the "Daily Caller" website).
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Gimme
a break. Someone eligible for a pension has absolutely zero say in what
that pension plan invests in. Mitt Romney has 100% say over what he
invests in. No, his wealth is in a blind trust you say? Mitt Romney
himself said blind trusts are an "age old ruse". You tell a blind trust
what it can & cannot do, you give it the rules". . And Romney's
"blind trust" is run by his long time friend & attorney. His "blind
trust" invested $1 million in a fund run by one of his son's last year.
Mitt Romney founded Bain Capital and owns millions of dollars of Sensata
stick. Mitt Romney could stop this plant closure and outsourcing all
it's jobs to China in one phone call if he really meant what he says
about "standing up to China".
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You're
not deflecting attention away from this one. Most Americans' pension
plans invest in companies that hurt our economy by transferring jobs,
technology, expertise overseas to an authoritarian Communist regime.
But, there is a big difference between being a small, passive
shareholder in a massive pension plan, and being the former CEO of Bain
Capital, and Bain's current #1 shareholder, a shareholder who will
probably make millions off of the pain of the 170 soon-to-be unemployed
Sensata workers.
President Obama recognizes that the fact that his pension invests in
such companies as Sensata is a problem for American workers; Mr. Romney,
however, does not recognize that his former tenure at Bain, and his
current status as its #1 shareholder is a problem for American workers.
Therein lies the difference.
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Considering Ed Schultz accidentally shot and killed his own dog, I wouldn't want to be in his vicinity either.
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And I wouldn't want to go on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney.
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Amazing,
Ali, how it is that you could turn the plight of 170 of my Freeport
neighbors into a tirade against a liberal talk show host. And post with
a fake moniker, too.
Conservatism is dead - having morphed into American fascism at it's worst. Get your head on straight - your job is next.
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Your job is next. That should be our mantra. Yep, keep on focusing on the messenger, and ignore the plight of those workers.
We are Sensata. And its American workers (and the poor Chinese slave laborers, too, for that matter) are us.
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Past time for a Bain Tax - Daily Kos diary calling for tariffs in Chinese auto parts to save Sensata Freeport -
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
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wE WILL BE A COUNTRY OF HAVES----HAVE MORES--- AND HAVE NOTHINGS!!!
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Disgusting. IS THIS THE AMERICA WE WANT???? WHEN DOES THE GREED STOP????
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