Blaze: An American freight company reportedly cashed in on an emergency federal loan last year, only to shut down its stateside manufacturing operations and move to Mexico a few months later.
FreightCar America, a major producer of freight cars for the railway industry, shuttered its last remaining U.S. production site in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, late last summer and shifted production to its facility in Castaños, Mexico. The move reportedly cost 550 American workers their jobs.
Yet only a few months earlier, the company had received a $10 million Paycheck Protection Program loan — the maximum amount available to businesses as part of a program to help American workers retain their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, ProPublica reported.
The news outlet acknowledged that to some employees, the news didn’t come as a shock, since they had for years heard rumors that management would relocate. But for others, the timing seemed odd.
At least one employee, Robert Bulman, believed the maneuver was a “setup” from the beginning. read more
“Free Britney Spears…”
Why does Britain need spears? I guess gun control has set them back to the dark ages.
Brave business man liberates 10 million dollars from the corrupt clutches of the Federal Government and flees to the safety and freedom of Mother Mexico and it’s pro child labor laws.
Huzzah I say.
Did the vegetable squatting in the White House get his 10%. Sounds like a Hunter deal.
Well, my reaction is to avoid long waits at a rail crossing. If the repair crews are like some I saw working in shipyards after a hurricane, some things might not be constructed as standards demand.
A demoncrat laundering company. They’ll love Mexico.
The Federal Government is killing America.
There’s a definite connection with (at least) one politician.
And since nobody’s looking into it, we can assume it has a (D) by its name.
Another example of how the scams work. We saw it with Obola’s “infrastructure” bullshit and Bush’s TARP. We never learn – we never demand accountability.
The thieving liars and the lying thieves should be hanged.
Regardless of their party affiliation.
izlamo delenda est …
“Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway purchased 77.4% of BNSF shares for $100 each on November 2, 2009. Berkshire Hathaway already owned 22.6% of the company, so the acquisition gave it total ownership of BNSF.“
“The fourth richest man in the world has quietly become by far the biggest shareholder in Canada’s largest railway. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has amassed a sizeable ownership stake in Canadian National Railway Co… Barry Prentice, professor of supply chain management at the University of Manitoba and former director of the university’s Transport Institute, said railways are popular investments for rich folks like Gates.”
NAFTA never ended for these plutocrats. They have no loyalty to America and no concern for their fellow citizens in the land which made them obscenely rich. Their only loyalty is to money, power and the dirt under their rails.
They will bully their American suppliers into whatever woke or PC position is fashionable at the moment, but they won’t lift a finger to persuade their suppliers to do right by the Americans who make their products.
Americans, fascist multinationals and the billionaires who own them are not your friends and compatriots. They have respect only for the various governments they must tithe to do business.
With no fear of prosecution itz: Take the Money and Run!
Venezuela her we come!
Another misleading click bait… it wasn’t a freight company that moved… it was a company that manufactured freight cars. Quite a difference in the number of employees effected. More bullshit.