New Dell manufacturing plant in N.C. to employ at least 1,500

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Nov 9th, 2004 | Gary D. Robertson (AP)

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Dell Inc. said Tuesday that it would build its third U.S. manufacturing plant in North Carolina, employing at least 1,500 people within five years.

The new facility, scheduled to open in the fall of 2005 at a site to be determined, will produce desktop computers.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Maybe a few of our layoff and plant-closure fetishists could take a gander at this.

[Anti-MSM]

It's Bush's fault!

[krb]

Cool...hopefully that will be more jobs than we will lose when IBM takes its wrath and moves some jobs out of our state in retaliation.

[Rebelbase]

I'm happy!

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

I don't think these fall into the "Government and hurricane damage-related jobs" catagory, but maybe they are minimum-wage burgerflipping jobs, or maybe....

Oh well, I give up. I'll let the gloom and doomers explain it to us.

[kayak]

bttt

[pogo101]

Gee, I wonder why they keep building plants and adding jobs in "red states."

(Not really. To paraphrase "Double Indemnity" and Billy Wilder, I wonder if I wonder.)

[WestTexasWend]

And about two weeks ago, Dell selected a site just south of downtown OKC for a new call center that will start with about 1,000 employees. Again, Bush's fault.

[pissant]

Sssshhhh. Don't tell Willie G. He might join the poor hack who offed himself at ground zero the other day 'cause he couldn't bear the thought of not seeing cute Johnnie Edwards everyday on the tube.

[Perdogg]

It's nice to see that these RED STATES are producing and paying taxes. ;) I wonder what Lawrence O Donnel does to contribute to society. You know what they say about Lawrence, Only F*ggots and Sailors are named Lawrence. -Full Metal Jacket

[OldFriend]

As a dem I guess he just couldn't bring himself to make this announcement before the election.

[RushCrush]

You beat me to it. Awesome!

[ArrogantBustard]

building plants and adding jobs in "red states."

Hmmm... a few years ago, Micron wanted to build a small-wafer chip fabrication plant in the mid-Atlantic region. Hmmm ... Decisions, decisions ... Maryland or Virginia ... Maryland or Virginia ...

Guess where they built it.

[cschroe]

Darned offshore outsourcing big corporation. Oooh, wait a minute....

[Dems_R_Losers]

Let's just hope that Wal-Mart does not decide to start selling computers.

[Ocracoke]

Just bought a 4600HT yesterday...what a rocket! Good for NC, Dell has been great for Tennessee.

[af_vet_1981]

Do you mean they aren't going to build it in California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, ... etc. ?

[jb6]

Yeah and all the democrats in NC had to do was bribe them with $250 million in benefits. Better to have lowered taxes on the whole state, which has lost some 100,000 jobs or so in past 5 years. It's a start a very small start.

[thepatriot1]

TDIDS - oops, can't say that anymore - how bout TDIPS (Tom Daschle is permanently saddened)

[jb6]

IBM is moving 8,000 jobs to India, right now. They have 1, read ONE open tech position in NC.