Posted on 10/25/2012 6:31:52 PM PDT by bigbob
Bad news will greet Vice President Joe Biden when he arrives in Wisconsin Thursday night. Hours earlier, Oshkosh's largest employer announced that it will lay off 450 employees in January.
Oshkosh Corp., a truck manufacturer with Pentagon contracts, blamed the "difficult decisions" on looming cuts to the nation's defense budget.
"As Oshkosh and others in the defense industry have discussed on numerous occasions, domestic military vehicle production volumes will decline significantly in 2013 due to the reduction in U.S. defense budgets and the fact that military spending is returning to peacetime levels," the company said in a statement. "Unfortunately, these economic factors require Oshkosh to rebalance its defense production workforce starting in January 2013."
The company said the layoffs were not tied to the looming budget cuts set to take effect in January. And it will still have about 3,500 employees in its Oshkosh-based defense division after the job cuts.
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I’m sure Joe Douchebag will find something funny about the whole thing.
He’ll probably confuse it with OshKosh B’Gosh kids clothing.
Though it saddens me to see so many losing jobs it is “good” that they are announcing and I wonder if the larger defense contractors will do the same on November 1 or buy into O’s blackmail scheme of paying their court costs (or should I say WE would pay the court costs).
Guess they didn’t get the memo out of the WH NOT to announce layoffs before the election!!!
Guess they didn’t get the memo out of the WH NOT to announce layoffs before the election!!!
As they say in acting and politics, “It’s all in the timing”, and “Timing is everything”.
Also: “Location, location, location”.
However, Biden will not even know what state he’s in, besides the states of denial, delusion, and duffusness.
I wonder if Joe can make this a two gaff event.....one gaff is a lock....
I wonder if Vegas lays odds on stuff like this...?
Just about be a sure bet....
Will Wisconsin officials “forget” to send in the employment numbers next cycle too?
That’s not all..... Kimberly Clark I going to layoff a crapload of people.
This will swing Wisconsin to the good guys.
Dad who lives in Wisconsin just called me about this. People are definitely talking about this in cheese land.
Oh they did. they just came to the realization that Obama won’t be around next year to pay the fine for them.
Oshkosh Truck announces layoffs on the eve of Biden visit
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If these cuts are due to upcoming defense budget cuts, how is that not the result of the upcoming budget cuts?
Joe: Doh!
This announcement may be the result through Rush Limbaugh’s show heard in many areas of Wisconsin who uncovered the statements Obama made to the Des Moines Register to get their endorsement wnen Obama stated he would enforce “sequestering” dropping many defence contracts. To balance his 2013 budget. The conversation is published elsewhere in FRs.
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