Engineering and fabrication

How many perfectly good but abandoned manufacturing factories do you have in your town?

I live in a town of apprx: 6,000 and our town has three that at one time collectively employed apprx. 600-700 people. Why has been war been declared on the manufacturing families of the United States? If this is this bad in my town how bad is it all across our country?

Public Comments

1. Jobs have been going overseas since the Carter Administration and only really took off in 1996. So what's your beef?


2. Keep buying cheap goods produced in China and it will get even worse.


3. Government has nothing to do with corporations. Most likely the company that used to have a factory there decided it would be more cost effective to just close that one down.


4. 0

   One opens if another shuts down in the same building.

   WAIT! There is one. It was a dynamite factory. It blew up killing everyone who was working sometime in the 40's I think.



5. its liek that in other places i work in an old abandoned bethlehem steel pipe mill in steelton pa it rain and snows on us cus the roof is mostly gone but we make good money war has been declared on americans in general they dont us producing jus ask the demicans and the republicrats they all love sending our jobs over seas and lining thier pockets in the process


6. It's truly sad where we now import more crap from China than we make here in this great country. If they would lighten the tax burdens and EPA burdens on business perhaps we wouldn't be in this boat.

   Don't get me wrong I am not for destroying the environment, but some of the EPA regs are exasperating.



7. Always work in the big cities.


8. all across the country. i was an over the road truck driver for many years. I've seen SEVERAL towns and communities that had businesses and factories leave. a lot of it has to do with local, county, state, and federal taxes. the town i live in has a population of about 10,000. there are several, several abandoned buildings and homes. (oil money comes and goes)


9. In my home town Nestle closed an 80 year old instant coffee factory and laid off the few hundred employees that two years prior had won awards from the company for efficiency. They said there was no demand (yes they told us directly to our faces the demand was gone - sorry). Then 9 months later they opened the same kind of facility producing the same product in Vietnam. Thanks NESTLE for lying to us. They bulldozed the factory and the only reason they remain is to clean up the mess they created (ground water contamination).

   So - no old factories here - empty land they could build one on but no factory.



10. We have more than I can count and more closing today, all the while illegal immigrants pouring into my community taking the rest of the jobs.

    How will the High School students of today survive tomorrow?



11. Kelly... you're asking questions nobody wants an answer to.


12. Hi Kelly

    I probably don't have to tell you about my home town of Flint, Michigan; it's been well-documented in the Michael Moore film "Roger and Me".

    We don't have a lot of closed-up factories here; however, we have PLENTY that have been bulldozed, thanks to our government's allowing ridiculously one-sided trade practices.

    It started with Japan. Now that NAFTA has been established and Clinton got China into the WTO (a big sarcastic TY to Clinton) it will continue to kill American manufacturing until the middle class is nothing but a fond memory.

    We can all do our part by boycotting American corporations that have closed factories in the U.S. and outsourced to slave-labor-wage nations. But we have to let them know---email them and tell them. Their bottom line is their wallets, not loyalty to the American workers who made them what they are; they need to be informed WHY we're not buying their product, and just maybe they'll listen.



13. Most of them are Heinze OOps forgot about old Kerry


14. It is called "out sourcing" , a politically correct way of saying "We the executives of the company, are sending YOUR jobs out of this country for cheaper labor, and this way, We executives can declare/ vote / pay Ourselves even bigger bonuses" !!!!!!

    I have a home in a community of about 200, and we do not have empty factories, however any town over about 1,000 has this dilemma.



15. I live out in the country but towns around here use to have glass plants, textile plants, all kinds of stuff. Soon after Nafta was signed most closed and went to Mexico and now I hear they have closed in Mexico and are now in China or India. You will never have any kind of factories in this country again if every law that has been passed in the last 20 years is not reversed and that means getting rid of the Republicans and Democrats because they do not work for you. They work for the lobbyist and as long as Corporations can build it with cheap labor and dump it in our market and pay no taxes and the politicians take their money it won't change. Face it USA we are going to have to go 3rd party canidates that actually work for us.