Anger grows in Illinois at Bain's latest outsourcing plan
The Guardian
The shock of losing a precious job in a town afflicted by high unemployment is always hard. A foundation for a stable family life and secure home instantly disappears, replaced with a future filled with fears over health insurance, missed mortgage payments and the potential for a slip below the breadline.
But for Bonnie Borman – and 170 other men and women in Freeport, Illinois – there is a brutal twist to the torture. Borman, 52, and the other workers of a soon-to-be-shuttered car parts plant are personally training the Chinese workers who will replace them.
It's a surreal experience, they say. For months they have watched their plant being dismantled and shipped to China, piece by piece, as they show teams of Chinese workers how to do the jobs they have dedicated their lives to.
Bain is shutting down a profitable U.S. company, making the American workers train their Chinese replacements, then shipping their plant and their jobs to China.
Gosh, that would mean that Mitt Romney will personally put money in his pocket at the expense of 170 American workers. Can you see this woman in an Obama ad with this quote?
"It's not easy to get up in the morning, training them to do your job so that you can be made unemployed. I am going to be competing for minimum wage jobs with my own daughter."
170 American workers sacrificing their jobs to put car elevators in Mitt Romney's houses.
Will Mittens buy them all bus tickets to Boston so they can continue to have health insurance?