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Hudson River town wonders what's next as GE plant heads south in latest NY manufacturing loss
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| December 21, 2013
| MICHAEL HILL
Posted on 12/28/2013 7:15:01 PM PST by Hojczyk
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:15:01 PM PST
by
Hojczyk
To: Hojczyk
This has to be Schenectady, right?
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:18:46 PM PST
by
ez
(Muslims do not play well with others.)
To: Hojczyk
Nice country Fort Edward
..I left NYS in 1980
it will be Detroit in 20 years
.Nothing much left upstate except farmers and government workers..
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:18:52 PM PST
by
Hojczyk
To: Hojczyk
Couldn’t happen to a nicer state.
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:19:04 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
To: Hojczyk
“About 200 jobs will head south” - only Republican conservatives are welcome. (just kidding)
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:20:56 PM PST
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: Hojczyk
High taxes + absolute control of democrats + insane public and private unions = NO JOBS
See Detroit, Camden, Chicago, Newark, Cleveland, Philly for more evidence...
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:21:36 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: ez
No not Schenectady
it is North up near Glens Falls
Lake George
I was born in Schenectady
when I was a kid they had the American Locomotive Company..Great looking Locomotives..everything is pretty much gone
it looks like Detroit
GE makes its turbines there
only thing left of GE..one time employed 50,000 people in the area..left in 1980..
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:24:42 PM PST
by
Hojczyk
To: Hojczyk
New York runs commercials down here on TV every now and then about businesses moving up there.
Kind of a sad joke, wonder how many other states it runs in?
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:27:45 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
To: Hojczyk
Anyone who didn't see this one coming was delusional.
GE basically made up their minds to vacate New York State after the state and the EPA pushed them to do a $500M dredging project to clean up PCBs in the Hudson River from the Hudson Falls plant.
I'm actually surprised they're moving somewhere else in the U.S. rather than overseas, considering what they went through in New York.
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:27:45 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
To: 2banana
Chances are it will be a union shop no matter where it goes inside our borders. Big companies prefer dealing with the union over thousands of individuals.
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:28:42 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Hojczyk
There’s a TV commercial ad going around hawking the ‘new New York’.as tax friendly to business endeavors. Yeh, right. )O< ;{
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:29:33 PM PST
by
tflabo
(Truth or Tyranny)
To: Hojczyk
To: Hojczyk
When 42 % of your jobs leave the State something is wrong with the State. I should know I live in Maryland, practically nothing left here but Government.
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:30:24 PM PST
by
Venturer
(Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Then there’s the clueless incoming mayor of NYC, too.
To: tflabo
We getting the “new New York is tax friendly to business” TV ads all day here in Washington State.
To: Hojczyk
Production workers here average $28.50 an hour... "What did we do wrong?" asked John Weber, sitting on a stool at his restaurant, Ye Old Fort Diner.
well for starters, he might want to read the article
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:37:37 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Hojczyk
Heard a commercial is running inviting companies to come ti NY and they will not pay taxes for 10 years. Has to be for foreign companies only
To: cripplecreek
Chances are it will be a union shop no matter where it goes inside our borders. Big companies prefer dealing with the union over thousands of individuals. Which is why every major new automobile factory has been built in "right to work" states for last generation?
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:39:27 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: cripplecreek
Chances are it will be a union shop no matter where it goes inside our borders. Big companies prefer dealing with the union over thousands of individuals. ???
Which is why every major new automobile factory has been built in "right to work" states for last generation?
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:39:35 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Hojczyk
NY State has high taxes and oppressive regulations, thus high cost of living, thus high labor costs ($28.50 avg. wage for union jobs at this plant). Businesses are stupid to stay in NY if they can move somewhere else.
(Fort Edward and nearby areas are quite nice, too bad they are in NY state.)
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posted on
12/28/2013 7:44:54 PM PST
by
Tom54
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