we would love to see a debate held in freeport, which is home of one of the famous lincoln-douglas debates and we would like to see how we could keep our jobs here at home. how are you going to follow up on that? are you going to ask the obama team and romney team to do just that or is this community talk right now? you re on a national show saying you want this to happen. i think it s a heck of an idea. well, the mayor is on the case, and he is determined to make it happen. okay, shelly, why is the plant being shut down? are the workers not as good as the chinese workers? what was the reason given from bain capital for this action? well, the reason that i understand is because it s a business decision based on revenues and profits. however, we would stake our northern illinois workers, our productive workers, our well-trained workers, workers with a great midwestern work ethic against any worker, and we find it hard to believe they ll
your colleagues are training chinese workers taking your jobs. that s got to be tough. shelly, what do you expect mitt romney to do? what would you want mitt romney to do? well, we certainly know his history with bain capital, and we understand, well, we don t understand fully what his relationship with bain capital is now, but we certainly believe he has some influence and the workers here really would love for mitt romney to come to our community and talk to the people who are losing their jobs. actually, what we would really love to see is the mayor, and i talked this afternoon, would be for governor romney and president obama to hold a debate in the city of freeport to talk about how to make america more competitive. companies lie like bain capital are in the business of creating wealth. we re in the business of creating jobs. they don t have to be mutually exclusive, but it s difficult to
griswold, the director of community development for the city of freeport, illinois, and dot turner, a worker at the plant for 43 years. i want to thank both of you for joining us tonight and telling the american people what it s like on the verge of being outsourced. dot, i want to ask you first, if you lose your job, what are you going do? well, i m going to have to try to retrain myself at my age and do something different. what kind of impact will that this loss have on you and your family? well, i ll be losing a real good income, and i ll be going on unemployment. and it s going to really, really be really difficult for me to try to think about going back to school at my age and being retrained. i can imagine this is a tremendous shock to a lot of the employees there at sensata.
would like to see how we could keep our jobs here at home. how are you going to follow up on that? are you going to ask the obama team and romney team to do just that or is this community talk right now? you re on a national show saying you want this to happen. i think it s a heck of an idea. well, the mayor is on the case, and he is determined to make it happen. okay, shelly, why is the plant being shut down? are the workers not as good as the chinese workers? what was the reason given from bain capital for this action? well, the reason that i understand is because it s a business decision based on revenues and profits. however, we would stake our northern illinois workers, our productive workers, our well-trained workers, werers with a great midwestern work ethic against any worker, and we find it hard to believe they ll find people of the same caliber that our folks in freeport do right now. dot, who do you blame for
chinese workers taking your jobs. that s got to be tough. shelly, what do you expect mitt romney to do? what would you want mitt romney to do? well, we certainly know his history with bain capital, and we understand, well, we don t understand fully what his relationship with bain capital is now, but we certainly believe he has some influence and the workers here really would love for mitt romney to come to our community and talk to the people who are losing their jobs. actually, what we would really love to see is the mayor, and i talked this afternoon, would be for governor romney and president obama to hold a debate in the city of freeport to talk about how to make america more competitive. companies like bain capital are in the business of creating wealth. we re in the business of creating jobs. they don t have to be mutually exclusive, but it s difficult to handle those on a local level because it s federal policies that make the difference.