| A never ending story continues. Looks like everything | | | | China. Packard Belll lays off 1,000- later goes out of |
| has to be repeated over and over again until we get | | | | business. AST Research cuts hundreds of jobs. |
| it right. The elder Bush announced the New World | | | | LSI Logic cuts 1,200 jobs. Texas Instruments cuts |
| Order. President Clinton followed and led the way | | | | 3,500 jobs. Gateway cuts 300 workers. Siemens |
| getting NAFTA and GATT Free Trade agreements | | | | worldwide cuts 60,000 jobs. Cadence cuts 180 |
| passed sealing the fate of the American Workers. | | | | engineers. In 1998, more than 250,000 lost their jobs |
| Millions lost their jobs while the Clintons chanted | | | | in high tech alone. |
| Happy Days are here again. President Clinton bombed | | | | Whirpool, Woolworth and International Paper |
| Iraq on an ongoing basis and started wars in the | | | | announce thousands of workers will be cut. Scott |
| Balkans to stop ethnic cleansing by doing the very | | | | Paper cuts 11,200 jobs. MCI WorldCom cuts 2,500 |
| same thing. He also bombed an aspirin factory in | | | | jobs. Nabisco cuts 3,100 jobs and closes plants. |
| Africa just to show his macho image to the world in | | | | Pioneer Standard cuts hundreds. Goodrich closes four |
| his "Wag the Dog" wars. | | | | plants. Advance Lighting cuts 2220 jobs and closes |
| The younger President Bush followed and more of | | | | plant. Kellogg cuts 525 salaried workers and 240 |
| the Free Trade agreements were passed while all | | | | temporary workers. Liz Claiborne cuts 400 jobs and |
| eyes were on the wars he started. The USA | | | | shuts down stores. HUFFY cuts 1,000 jobs and closes |
| bombed Iraq for years but we never saw an Iraq | | | | USA factories. Stanley works cuts 5,000 jobs. BF |
| plane bomb the USA. However, this did not stop | | | | Goodrich closes down corporate headquarters in |
| President Bush from acting as if they did. He started | | | | Akron Ohio. General Tire has similar situation. BP |
| his False Crusade with Black Knights- see article here | | | | America closes down headquarters in Cleveland Ohio. |
| at Ezine Articles. History tells us will over and over | | | | Reliance Electric fades away after Rockwell buyout. |
| again, the U.S. will not win. Just like all the other | | | | Even McDonalds cut 525 workers in its Chicago |
| nations in history who invaded the Middle East, the | | | | Corporate Offices or about 23 percent of its staff. |
| U.S. will come home and leave things worst than they | | | | Weirton Steel idles blast furances. Mr. Gasket |
| were before they came. | | | | eliminates all production jobs and outsources jobs |
| At the same time more and more Americans drift | | | | outside the USA. |
| into the Silent Depression. Millions have lost their jobs | | | | (Some humor ) Scrabble is set to C-L-O-S-E factory. |
| due to Free Trade with 39 percent of all over age | | | | JUST CLOSEOUTS closes out all stores. |
| 45 filing for bankruptcy from 1992 to 2002. ( Latest | | | | In 1998, Personal Bankruptcies jumped 19 percent to |
| figures are still not available but most likely the | | | | 1.3 million going bankrupt. Business failures surged 16 |
| number will grow larger with the Baby Booners on | | | | percent totalling 83,384 business failing. |
| their way to old age.) Let us go back a bit in time | | | | THIS WAS 1998. There were plenty more jobs lost |
| and see how this all came about since we are being | | | | but these are the only figures we kept in 1998. |
| asked to let Hillary take over. Let us go back to a | | | | During the beginning of the Clinton years around |
| pivotal year - 1998 and get some examples of what | | | | 1992, IBM and AT@T/NCR cut about 250,000 |
| is in store for us now. | | | | workersbetween just these three companies. |
| Here are some numbers of job losses and a list of | | | | There is more and you can not blame the Clintons |
| employers that closed down back in 1998 when the | | | | for all of the following but he and Hillary did nothing |
| Clintons were proclaiming a statistical prosperity while | | | | to correct the situation during their time in office. |
| millions were getting fired. The stock market thrived | | | | More than 700,000 workers lost their jobs and |
| for a long time just as it is now based on workers | | | | related jobs in the steel industry. More than 400,000 |
| getting fired instead of hired. Today people like | | | | workers lost their jobs in the auto industry. |
| Cavuto on Fox News keep telling us this is a good | | | | Here is a list of computer companies that folded |
| thing and not a bad thing. They hide the fact that | | | | surrounding the Clinton years. All of these computer |
| the stock market had a trillion dollar loss when the | | | | companies are gone with most of them being U.S. |
| Dot Coms went katput just when Clinton finished his | | | | manufacturers. ( We stand to be corrected with |
| job and Bush took over and the same thing is bound | | | | perhaps some of these companies remaining in part |
| to happen again. | | | | somehow but virtually they are all gone. ) |
| Here are the "good" old days in the Clintons' Land of | | | | Commodore, Compugraphics, Computer Automation, |
| "is" based 1998 as an example. This is the list of | | | | Computerm, Computone, Condor, Corvus, Data |
| some of the major jobs losses. | | | | Systems, Delta Data, Datapoint, Four Phrase, Radio |
| In 1998, Rockwell cuts 3,800 jobs. Boeing and other | | | | Shack Computers, Redactron, Remex, Standard |
| related supporting companies cut 50,000 workers. | | | | Logic, Sykes, Eagle, General Automation, Redcor, |
| LTC lays off 600. Kodak cuts 10,000 jobs. Raytheon | | | | General Computer, Intertel Data, Itek, Ohio Scientific, |
| cuts 14,000 jobs. TRW cuts 7,500 jobs. Lubrisol cuts | | | | Novar, Sundance, Sperryrand, Televideo, Mohawk, |
| 150 jobs. American Greeting cuts hundreds of jobs. | | | | Leading Edge, ITT, Lobo, Micromation, Modular Comp, |
| Eaton cuts 200 jobs in chip-making operations. Sun | | | | Micropolis, Monroe, Nixdorf, Northern Telephone, |
| liquidated with 2,800 losing their jobs. Hanna trims 260 | | | | Ontel, Perkins-Elmer, North Star, Ohio |
| workers and shuts down plant. Republic cuts 1,400 | | | | Nuclear-Technicare, Packard Bell, Leeds and Northrup, |
| jobs. Bethlem Steel cuts 750 jobs and closes down | | | | Pertec, Osborne, Vector, Vista, Vydek, Wango, |
| operations. Weirton Steel lays off 300 workers. | | | | Wordstream, Zilog, Wells America - (the last micro |
| (In the world of money ) - World Bank cuts 750 | | | | computer made in the USA ), Zenith, Unisis Mircros, |
| workers. Merrill Lynch cuts 3,400 jobs. Chase cuts 90 | | | | AT&T Micros, Datatron, Datronix, Franklin, Basic |
| jobs locally. Huntington Bank cuts 1,000 jobs. Wells | | | | FOur, Synon, QDP, Quasar, Star Tech, Tandem, |
| Fargo cuts 2,000 jobs. | | | | Wang, BTI, Pronto, Rodine, Contel, CTI, Data Design, |
| Toro closes plants and lays off all workers. Texaco, | | | | Data Logic, Datatronics, Heath, Intertek, and this is |
| Royal Dutch and Shell cut 4,000 jobs. Ameritech cuts | | | | only a partial list. |
| 5,000 more jobs. Carpet Barn closes all its retail | | | | We also have on file about a thousand systems |
| outlets. Heinz cuts 390 jobs. Cummins Engines cuts | | | | houses in a tri-state area that went out of business |
| 1,000 jobs. NBC cuts 250 jobs. Toys R US closes 59 | | | | surrounding the Clinton years. |
| sores. Boston Chicken seeks bankruptcy protection. | | | | In Mainframe computers, over a million workers lost |
| GE shuts New England plants. Goodyears plans more | | | | their jobs prior and during the Clinton years. |
| cuts after thousands were fired. BF Goodrich vacates | | | | They include Honeywell, GE, Sperry, Univac, |
| headquarters ending the loss of thousands of jobs. | | | | Burroughs, Control Data, NCR, RCA, Xerox, IBM ( |
| Polaroid cuts 700 jobs. Venator Group closes 570 | | | | 150,000 were cut in the early 1990s ) DEC, Data |
| stores. Consolidated Gas cuts 2,600 jobs. Fruit of the | | | | General, Wang and more. |
| Loom cuts another 5,000 workers and moved | | | | In computer media, 3M sold out to Imation who then |
| factories outside the USA saying they could not | | | | laid thousands off. BASF Magnetics closed their US |
| afford to pay $8 an hour. | | | | plants and sold this division to Korean company. Like |
| (In the high tech world where we hear about labor | | | | many others, the brand name is the only thing left in |
| shortages ) INTEL cuts 5,000 jobs. Seagate cuts | | | | the USA. The same applys to Dysan, Memorex and |
| 20,000 jobs. DIGITAL cuts 15,000 jobs in merger | | | | Verbatim. |
| with Compaq with company moving factories to | | | | |