Reply #34: Okay, Ft. Smithite here, Voted for Kerry [View All]

but Whirlpool had been operating in Mexico for a looooong time. At least 15 years.

Layoffs are common there.

In fact these layoffs are "voluntary" (I know it sounds strange) but these folks get to keep their benefits, draw unemployment, and will be first to be hired when another line picks up.

Okay, now, it is also a fact that NAFTA was passed with the Repukes leading the way in congress and Clinton signing it!

So I wouldn't say that * voters did this to Whirlpool, but rather a long line of corporate money passing through both the (R) and (D) sides of the aisles did this.

And this is damaging, but not (hopefully) permanent.

Ft. Smith is more demographically mixed, supported Clinton, but supported *.

Farther North you run into Fundieville (just north of Fayetteville and inhabited by Wal-Mart, and it's corporate employees, and vendors employees