Remaining 115 Georgia Pacific Co. Employees To Be Laid Off
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Our local newspaper The News Reporter is reporting that the 115 remaining employees at the Georgia Pacific lumber company will be laid off. The company did employ over 400 workers before the earlier layoffs this year. The report says that the GP plant will be closed down for at least 6 months but did not say for sure that it would reopen and that hiring would resume. Georgia Pacific is the World's largest suppliers of wood products. Just this last week the Obama White House reported that the stimulus money has saved and created thousands of jobs. I don't fall for the Obama lies. Does this sound like the stimulus money has done anything to help the job crisis in America as Obama says it has? Jobs are being lost everyday and Obama seem not to have the answers that he promised during the campaign"I'm ready on day one". Whiteville, North Carolina is a small town and the closing of the Georgia Pacific plant here has hurt not only Whiteville but the economy as well. The plant hired many black and white workers so its also hurting the black Americans that voted Obama into office, do they understand that, I'm not so sure! Will they understand when things get worst that Obama and the democrats hasn't help but their policies have made job lost worst? Maybe! I can see lumber to build houses going up in price so that most low and middle income people will not be able to afford then what? The small contractors will lay off workers and may have to go out of business.
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I have to disagree with you Patrice52, Obama said if we passed the stimulus bill that the unemployment would not go above 8%, its over 10% in North Carolina. Obama also said during the campaign that he was ready on day one! He has shown his inexperience over the last year and the elections to day in Va. sends him and the democrats a message that they better get off the path they're trying to send this country in or be voted out the next time they go up for re-election. Obama used the stimulus money to make the government bigger, not for jobs that the Americans need. Its been a year and its all Obama's doing now not President G.W. Bush! Obama has made it worst not better.
I do agree with you in many respects. I don't see the economy as getting better yet, despite what the stock market is doing. Last fall we were on the brink of a depression and so far, Obama has only propped the economy up, which has helped the stock market, but little else. I guess my only disagreement with you is that I don't believe any other president would, or could, have done any better. Once things get that bad it's going to be a very, very long time before it turns around, regardless of what politicians do. As last fall, I'm still preparing for the worst, which I don't think has gotten here yet. And I don't think we've seen the bottom of the stock market either, but that's only my personal opinion.
This economy has really hurt me also. I do wish you well.
Thanks for stopping back by, see we can agree on somethings so why can't the democrats and republicans agree to disagree and talk to each other on what best for America and its people..and the democrats has to give a liitle plus the republicans has to give a little.
I know. I'm an independent and am so tired of our two party system and their bickering like a bunch of school children, while never accomplishing anything real. Looks like they could put what was really good for the American people (and not the big banks or corporations) first for a change.
Unemployment is now 10.2 nation wide and states are increasing taxes and Obama and the democrats are trying to spend another 800 billion dollars on government run health care! Where will the big time spending spree stop!
Patrice52 2 years ago
I am sincerely sorry that the lumbar company in your town has shut down. I think that if we go back though and consider the state of the economy when Obama took office, that it would not have been feasible for ANY president to have turned this run away train around by now. I do think that if we want to "thank" anyone for the condition of our country, we might start with big banks and big business, and then add ALL the politicans (Republican and Decmorat) that allowed this behavior to go on for so long.