re: #460 Dark_Falcon

The first is Chris Matthews being a asshole, the second bolded part turns out to have been wrong. The Janesville plant closed in 2009.

That’ misleading and you know it. The plant ceased all significant production operations in December 2008 and any activities that carried into 2009 were very minor. When the large SUV production ended, the plant essentially closed even if the doors weren’t bolted shut yet. The Janesville plant was very old and inefficient and out in the middle of nowhere. When the company investigated where to build the new GM sub-compact vehicles, the decision was made to revamp the Orion Township plant in MI and not Janesville WI, Wilmington DE, Pontiac MI or Spring Hill TE. If the Janesville plant could have offered a better business case for building that vehicle than Orion, than it would have been the plant to get revamped, but the numbers weren’t there.

I would think that the candidates and voters who claim to be knowledgeable about how business works would understand that. But again, its willful ignorance and selective memory that drive their politics.