Fisker Automotive, a high-end electric car company that received over $500 million in Energy Department loans, is laying off more than 150 workers. Another “green” scheme gone awry! The Detroit Free Press has the details: “The layoffs come on the…
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GE Laying Off 500 Employees From Much Touted Appliance Park
by Lonely Conservative • • 3 Comments
I just have to shake my head, to the point of whiplash, when I think about the bickering going on over President Obama’s sequester cuts when I hear stories like this. GE’s much touted “Appliance Park” is laying off 500…
Obamacare Medical Device Tax Costs Another 100 Jobs
by Lonely Conservative • • 3 Comments
Thanks to Obamacare’s 2.3% medical device tax another 100 Americans are losing their jobs. According to the Washington Times, the global orthopedic device manufacturer Smith and Nephew is laying off almost 100 employees at plants in Tennessee and Massachusetts. The…
Corporations Aren’t Finished Laying Off
by Lonely Conservative • • 6 Comments
American Express announced that it will reduce its global workforce by about 6% and thousands will be laid off. Disney is looking at job cuts in order to cut costs, “in an early sign that big companies may not be…
Citigroup Letting 11,000 Employees Go
by Lonely Conservative • • 11 Comments
Another day in the Obama economy, another announcement of massive layoffs. Today’s news comes from Citigroup, where 11,000 employees are getting pink slips. On Wall Street and around the world big banks are firing workers. Now, Citigroup is joining the…
Florida Denny’s Franchisee Cutting Employee Hours, Adding Obamacare Surcharge
by Lonely Conservative • • 7 Comments
The Obamacare fallout continues. Employers were waiting to see if there was a chance at repeal before cutting hours and laying off employees. Now that they know we’re stuck with the rotten law they’re doing what they have to do.…
NBC Lays Off 450 Workers
by Lonely Conservative • • 34 Comments
NBCUniversal is laying off 450 workers. It’s a shame nobody from MSNBC is on this list. NBCUniversal is laying off about 450 people, or roughly 1.5 percent of its workforce of about 30,000, in a round of belt-tightening that began…
More Post Election Layoffs
by Lonely Conservative • • 7 Comments
Elections have consequences. The consequences of this election are already upon us. No doubt many businesses were holding out hope for repeal of Obamacare. Well, that’s not going to happen and now they’re laying off. Here’s a partial list of…
So It Begins: Boeing’s Defense Division Announces Layoffs
by Lonely Conservative • • 10 Comments
How nice of Boeing to make this announcement after Barack Obama was reelected. I’m sorry I wasted my time blogging on their behalf when they were opening a plant in the right to work state of South Carolina. Boeing announced a…
Thanks, Obama! Thanks, Maffei! Crouse Hospital Laying Off Workers Thanks To Obamacare
by Lonely Conservative • • 3 Comments
Dan Maffei has no regrets over his vote for Obamacare, although he does say he doesn’t like the medical device tax that’s hurting our district. I’m sure he has no comment on the news that Crouse Hospital is laying off…
Foreign Wind Company Laying Off 800 Workers, Despite $50 Million ‘Investment’ By Taxpayers
by Lonely Conservative • • 48 Comments
Another day, another failed government funded green energy project. This one, Vestas, isn’t even an American company. A Danish wind turbine company whose subsidiaries received over $50 million in U.S. stimulus dollars announced on Friday it has cut more than…
Upstate NY Medical Device Maker Restructuring Due to Obamacare Taxes
by Lonely Conservative • • 3 Comments
Welch Allyn is a medical device manufacturer based in Skaneateles, NY, a small town between the cities of Syracuse and Auburn. The area needs all the jobs it can get, and every job lost is a tragedy. When Obamacare was…
Obama’s War On Coal Cost More Jobs In Pennsylvania and Ohio
by Lonely Conservative • • 1 Comment
President Obama’s war on coal continues and has claimed some more victims. Two companies have announced layoffs in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and they say this is just the beginning, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Two area coal companies announced layoffs…
GM Cutting Volt Production and Laying Off 1300 Workers
by Lonely Conservative • • 9 Comments
Here’s another success story out of Obama’s crony-capitalist economic policy. General Motors is laying off 1,300 workers and halting production of the Chevy Volt because nobody wants to buy the lousy little cars. “Even with sales up in February over…