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From WISN.com:
WISCONSIN — Wisconsin lawmakers have appealed to President Barack Obama hoping to keep Kenosha’s Chrysler plant open.
Sens. Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold and Reps. Paul Ryan and Gwen Moore sent a letter to the president one day after they met with Chrysler officials.
The lawmakers said Chrysler didn’t give them any reason to believe the company is serious about keeping jobs in Kenosha.
The Wisconsin delegation asked the president to do all he can to keep the plant open.
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I have to believe everyone is doing what they can to save jobs, but when does the incremental “saving” begin to fly in the face of slimmer, leaner, meaner, able to do more sit-ups? Is this a good sign or bad? I mean, will we be left with essentially no cuts (or marginal) and a massive bill, let alone gov’t control?
My head seriously swims.
I doubt whether very many of these pleas will have the desired effect. But, of course, the local politicians HAVE to do this since they are responsible to the employees of the plant. As the man said “All politics are local”.
The Wisconsin Primary was a big win for Obama. That has to be a plus for the Kenosha Plant.
Sad to think that we have to take that sort of nonsense into consideration now.
The problem for the Wisconsin delegation is that the Kenosha plant makes only the 2.7 and 3.5 V6 engines, both dating to the early ’90’s. Chrysler has a new, more economical 3.6 V6 and a new plant to make it, in Michigan.
That engine is designed to replace the two engines made in Kenosha, as well as a couple other V6 engines, to simplify the bloated V6 lineup. The new engine is also designed to accommodate future multi-port fuel injection and a cylinder deactivation scheme (!) for fuel economy.
With Chrysler selling well under 1 million cars this year (down from 1.458 million last year) the Kenosha plant represents excess capacity as well as older engineering. Good luck to the Wisconsin delegation.
I’m so confused.. They sent the plea to Obama and not to the Italian government?
Seems like every state that wants to keep a Chrysler plant / dealer open should hire a good translator and bone up on Italian customs.
Sad to think that we have to take that sort of nonsense into consideration now.
Where “we” defined as people who don’t know better. jimmy2x is correct that this stuff’ll be ignored, but the few which coincide with actual decisions will feed the idiotic conspiracies.
Lorenzo:
There were supposed to be 3 plants for the Pentastar V6 engines: Michigan, Wisconsin, and Mexico. Then, Chrysler correctly realized that they didn’t need all 3 plants with their current sales numbers (this was before they had received government money), so they planned to cut the Wisconsin (Kenosha) plant out of the picture.
Fast forward to the present, and even though Chrysler has received tons of government money, nobody was smart enough to force them to put a Pentastar engine line in Kenosha instead of in Mexico. So it’s going to Mexico.
Now comes the real fun – the point at which all of Chrysler and GM’s 535 CEO’s start to realize that all the cuts and shutdowns can’t necessarily happen in somebody else’s district.
Its getting to the Point that all Manufacturing of Cars, SUV, Trucks etc have to be made in Third World Countries which Mexico is One, besides the Far East! For Companies to make a Profit they want and to hell with Workers in both the USA and Canada.
I do not believe this story. Nobody believes that the President of the United States would meddle in the decision making of a private company. We’re not a socialist country, are we?
Where “we” defined as people who don’t know better. jimmy2x is correct that this stuff’ll be ignored, but the few which coincide with actual decisions will feed the idiotic conspiracies.
Sure, this whole process is working without consideration of political connections and political implications.
Keep pouring that Koolaid, someone is bound to drink it.
And yet another excellent example of why the government should not own and operate auto plants. They will be renaming these buildings after the crooked lawyers in Congress who used taxpayer money to keep them open.
It boils down to simple questions…Are you making a competitve global product or parts that will go into it? Does Fiat/Chrysler need an obselete, redundant V6 motor plant? Unless theyre planning to make an engine that WILL become useful and necessary(unlikely), the answer is NO. Sorry.
Sure, this whole process is working without consideration of political connections and political implications.
Funny because innuendo is the very stuff that has been destructive to our political process.
Also, I’m not sure why people would think the same decision in absence of fed ownership would be any different. Same congresscritter sending same letter. Same internal corporate politics.