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01-16-2012, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by janmcn
This is way over most voter's heads, but most voters know somebody who lost their job because the company was bought out or jobs were shipped overseas. Governor Romney is the .001% and President Obama is fighting for the 99%.
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Bull. How many jobs has Obama prevented from "being shipped overseas"???
Like this deal headed by his pal, G.E. CEO Jeffrey Immelt and Obama's "Jobs Czar"???
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010; 9:48 PM
WINCHESTER, VA. - The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s.
The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs.
"Now what're we going to do?" said Toby Savolainen, 49, who like many others worked for decades at the factory, making bulbs now deemed wasteful......
...What made the plant here vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014. The law will force millions of American households to switch to more efficient bulbs.
The resulting savings in energy and greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to be immense. But the move also had unintended consequences.
Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China.
Consisting of glass tubes twisted into a spiral, they require more hand labor, which is cheaper there. So though they were first developed by American engineers in the 1970s, none of the major brands make CFLs in the United States....
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2011013003428
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