GM closed from the previous administration. thats fine, then idiot boy comes along and promises 250,00 jobs. he has delivered on maybe 3000 i think and i spent 9 months hitting the papers, job search sites, wherever i could find job listings into his administration. in my field of work, there has been nothing come along. as far as i'm concerned, his promise there was nothing but a lie to get elected. i ended up taking a job 300 miles away from family.
Swiss Chick: W had 8 yrs to really screw this country up. its gonna take a lot longer than 4 yrs to fix. thing is, i don;t see ANY presidential candidate with a fix on the horizon either.

Obama made alot of "promises" he didn't keep either, so . . . . .

Dawolfman75, may I ask how "idiot boy" caused you to move out of state?

if i was back in janesville i might have known about all those theflick. problem is because of idiot boy, i had to take a job out of state and keep in touch with my family via phone. not narrow minded, just unable to keep up with home because of the distance.

Dawolfman75 Open your narrow minded eyes! What about shine tech, MPC and the milton co.
going in the old gilman building. Thanks for proving my point that dems are ignorant and morally bankrupt!

35% corporate tax shawn? really? that is such crap! what corporation pays 35%? Just keep parroting the party line, the poor corporations!! Blah, blah, blah!!

GOOD deal the hell with GM...get a job while you still can..wages will go up ..and cAR POOL you will be just fine.

BOYCOTT DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!

the point i was making was that illinois, even with its high corporate tax is still adding jobs. what has our glorious leader here in wisconsin done towards his promise? not a dam thing except screw it up royally. and shawn you are right that the Belvidere plant makes cars on the same platform. the whole industry does this not just them. platforms chage, cars are added or taken out. thats normal and not really even a factor. what is a factor is the work force they have there. its among the best in the chrysler system. they don;t let politics ruin them like politics ruined janesville.

I've read this article around 30 times keep thinking im missing something because all I see is "Walkers" name being blurted out in the blogs. (I dont see it still) If you dont approve of Chrysler hiring then why complain? If this was a article about Chrysler laying people off you same people would complain!! You computer hero's make me smarter eveyday reading your blogs:) Thanks!

All you Dems touting illinois tax policies as the reason for these added jobs have no clue. An auto plant is a huge capital investment. You can't just willy nilly move lines and products without major costs incurred. That plant is modern for an auto plant (opened in 1965) and is centrally located right off an interstate thus reducing transportation costs. It builds smaller vehicles (Caliber and Patriot). Furthermore, Illinois last Jan raised its corporate tax 45% TO 7%. This makes Illinois the third highest corporate taxed state in the country when the the 35% Federal tax is factored in. Obviously this is why Chrysler added these jobs....NOT. Next time look up the facts before posting for we all are dumber for having read it.

mouse, you have too much time on your hands !

Walker just acted as a real estate agent for some wealthy ie: Kochs.
The only thing Walker had planned was to sell Wisconsin.
Not only that..... he took all the tax dollars and also gave them to the Wisconsin purchasers.
Wisconsin got took to the cleaners.

Officerf......... is as your name implies, even you should be smart enough to see through Walkers corruption.
Officers I know are pretty smart and stand together for the greater cause....... I guess you must be a T R US doorman or something.

Walker just acted as a real estate agent for some wealthy ie: Kochs.
The only thing Walker had planned was to sell Wisconsin.
Not only that..... he took all the tax dollars and also gave them to the Wisconsin purchasers.
Wisconsin got took for a ride by Walker.
Only thing Walker produced was a Historical Scam.
....... RECALL WALKER....... AND BOYCOTT THE KOCH PRODUCTS. YOU COULD STILL MAQKE A DIFFERENCE.

ya know, some people jsut don't get it. why is General Motors even brought into this? sure, a man retires from GM with 30 yrs. he was 18 or so when he started maybe and still has kids in school and didn't wanna uproot them? I know some of my fellow co workers were in that situation. My son was recently laid off from his job in Fort Atkinson. reason?...... not enough work and he worked there 7 yrs. Scott Walkers promise to create all those jobs is shallow. he said that to get people to vote for him and his many lies he would eventually unleash when elected. he has done nothing to create jobs in this state. my son was hitting the road to try and find a new job every day for several weeks. he finally applied at chrysler. he WANTS to work but there is nothing in this area. he realizes he can eventually car pool, how tough the work will be(those who think the auto industry jobs are "Gravy" these days are out of touch with reality). he;s ready for it. he applied there one night recently after i found the link and the next morning he was already being set up for interviews. i applaud the state of Illinois for sticking with companies that work with them. Scott Walker however, needs to be recalled with all his lame and useless promises.

cynicaleye: You better go back to school to figure out your math and learn to read a map. The only way it is going to cost someone $4,000 for gas is if they are driving a vehicle that gets maybe 5 mpg, and you can get to belviedere without having to pay tolls.

I suppose Walker will sdd these jobs to his 250,000?
RECALL WALKER...... BOYCOTT KOCH PRODUCTS.
Some are almost dust to dust Votoloco...... you sound like one of them.

Gas=$3.5 estimate
MPG=30+
Gas used 2.5gallons day estimate
$2000 yearly gas used estimate (3.5x2.5x5x4x12)
Gas per person if 2 people carpool=$1000
Gas per person if 4 people carpool=$500

cynicaleye, did you expect Chrysler to abandon an exiting facility and build next to your house so you could walk to work?

$4,000.00/year??? What the heck you driving? There has always been people driving from all over to Belvidere. Nothing new. And, they share rides. I know quite a few people that have done that to go to work at Chrysler.

Ok, stoutt66, I get that. However, many people lost jobs and didn't have their "retirement requirement" in, and are left with with way less. Just saying. . .

"STAND WITH WALKER so you can keep more of your $15.78 per hour!!" Really? The jobs are out of state. It will cost on average $4,000.00 for gas a year to commute, plus tolls on I90. Yup. Stand with Walker and wave goodby to the jobs as they go to some other state.

I meant "shame on Walker." Shame, shame, shame.

officerfriendly, too bad Wisconsin public employees didn't have the same luck. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice...

$15.78 an hour? Where are all the minimum wage anti-union ghouls? You've got a whole new class of unskilled workers and labor to claw down. Think about how much of the cost of the car would be even lower if they were paid $7.50 and hour with no bennies. Look at all of those savings. Come on, dream killers. Don't disappoint.

Waiting for Governor Eagle scout to take credit for these jobs, or for one of the people to give him credit. Open for business right?

SwissChick, This guy doesn't want to stop working. He is in his early 50's and his wife still works, his kids are in college and just wants to continue working until they can both retire. He was offered to move to another plant but doesn't want to leave his family or home.

why_think
Are you going to be the first to highlight the differences in policy between Wisconsin and Illinois that has anything to do with Chrysler sales expectations?
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I would like to hear your ideal world of geography of where jobs are located. Do you believe no matter where you live, your job should be located a bicycle ride away?
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Lastly, please explain how Walker has anything at all to do with an existing factory built in Illinois and the projected sales of certain Chrysler/Fiat branded vehicles. What did he do or not do to influence this market driven activity?

stoutt66 - Just curious. . Why is a 30-year (probably retiree) so desparately need a job? I'm just trying to understand. Not like other people who lost jobs and were no where near their 30-year retirement pension.

COngratulations to anyone who gets their foot in the door at this company. These kind of wages and bennies for unskilled labor are few and far between.

"Let me be the FIRST to highlight the differences in policies between the Illinois government and the Wisconsin government."

okay, go ahead, we're waiting...........
while your at it, please explain what it has to do with this article.

Now you are trying to replace rhetoric with facts.

Vatoloco, I know several displaced GM workers that have applied for jobs at much lower rates doing everything that can't even get an interview with other places because of people's view of the GM mentality. One guy has been working at Generac for the last 6 months just to get GM off of his resume. And he worked there for 30 years. Says Generac is the worst place he has ever worked at but nobody else will even give him an interview. He wants to work, could fully retire but WANTS to work.

I doubt people from Janesville will drive for 15 bucks an hour...many want to push a broom and expect $25 to $30 an hour........Janesville is dead with that mentality....Beloit has a tougher heart and knows adversity...

Jobs will always come and go. I think a major problem in this country is the media. They create a panic in the public with the way they write stuff. Jobs are like life.. its a cycle. Nothing lasts forever and where you have some companies close up and die... others oare born. The world still goes around and round.. The media has to sell papers and gain listeners/watchers so they keep people on their toes. It sucks because they create an image of society to the public that is false.

What does new jobs at Chrysler have to do with GM and their wages? Nothing, absolutely nothing.

Let me be the FIRST to highlight the differences in policies between the Illinois government and the Wisconsin government.
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Let me also be the FIRST to highlight jobs being created in ILLINOIS that could be filled by WI residents.
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another fine print WI residents didn't realize prior to the election of Walker. Needing to drive across the stateline for a job.
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RECALL WALKER!