Friday, February 16, 2007
I might not have kisses anymore
Just found this in the newspaper…........
HERSHEY MOVES JOBS TO MEXICO
The Hershey Co., whose name has been synonymous with U.S. candy-making for more than a century, is moving a bigger chunk of its production to Mexico. A day after Valentine sweethearts across the country enjoyed bags of Hershey Kisses, the company announced a restructuring plan yesterday that will scale back its workforce by 1,500 jobs and force some plants to close. Hershey said the three-year blueprint would reduce the number of production lines by more than one-third while saving the company as much as $190 million a year.
Now, I love Hershey kisses probably more than most folks; but right now I am not sure that I want to buy them anymore. Hey, it is great news if you live in Mexico and haven’t already moved here illegally to get a job - the good old American companies will bring the work right to your door. So, they save $190 million a year and the U.S. loses more jobs - yet we have a low unemployment rate. HAHAHAHAHAHA
See, what most working people don’t know and honestly quite a few people don’t know this - once you are no longer collecting unemployment you are no longer counted in the ranks of the unemployed; even though you are unemployed. Make sense to you??? So even though you may be unemployed and your spouse or best friend is also unemployed as long as you are no longer collecting unemployment you don’t count and the government says how great the country is doing because we have such a low unemployment rate. HEHEHEHEHE
Now, think about all the companies that you know of that have outsourced their telemarketing functions, their call centers, their accounting functions, their factories, the data entry, and whatever else you may have heard about to other countries - think about all the people that should be on some sort of unemployment - oops, maybe they took early retirement or a buy-out. Fact is, they are no longer employed; their jobs are GONE. Sure the company saves a ton of money and once the people are done with unemployment the government turns around and says - WOW, the economy must be doing good our unemployment figures are LOW!!!
What I want to know is this: What are the 1,500 people going to do for work once their unemployment runs out?? Are they going to be offered some other sort of job with Hershey - like dress up as kisses and run around the theme park?? Will the chocolate taste as good as it did when it isn’t made in PA anymore?? And finally when is the government going to step up and say, “Hey, if ya’ll want to move your jobs out of the U.S. then you have to pay more in taxes to help support all the people that you have now made unemployed after their unemployment runs out.“ Think they’d be moving their jobs then??
And most importantly are we still going to buy those kisses or are we going to tell Hershey to kiss off????
