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Dell Closes Ireland Plant; 2nd Largest Employer
Wide Angle writes in with a PBS report on tough economic news from Ireland: Dell announced that it will relocate its manufacturing plant in Limerick, Ireland to Lodz, Poland. "Dell's announcement... is a severe blow to the Irish economy, which has been hit hard and fast by the global economic crisis. Dell is Ireland's second-largest corporate employer and the country's largest exporter. Nineteen hundred shift workers will lose their jobs. ...Dell's closing is not a result of the economic downturn, but of a pattern all too familiar in the United States — corporations' perennial search for cheaper labor. Since 2000 several companies, such as Procter & Gamble, Intel, Gateway, and NEC Electronics, have moved manufacturing jobs from Ireland to China, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere. When Poland joined the European Union in 2004, it became an attractive place for companies to set up manufacturing plants. ... However, Ireland has managed to maintain and attract... 'knowledge-intensive jobs.' Google's European headquarters are based in Dublin, and Facebook announced late last year that they would locate their international headquarters there. But the overall economic picture for Ireland is bleak."
The move is a terrible economic body blow for Ireland, the former "Celtic Tiger" that was one of the first eurozone members to fall into recession amid the global downturn following last year's credit crunch.
"Dell will migrate all production of computer systems for customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa from Limerick to its Polish facility and third-party manufacturing partners over the next year," Dell said in a statement.
Dell, which has been hard-hit by the economic slowdown and increased competition, last month announced a major reorganisation of its worldwide operations.
The Dell factory in Limerick was set up in 1990 and was one of the jewels in the crown of Ireland's so-called Celtic Tiger economy, employing 4,500 people at its height.
Dell remains Ireland's biggest exporter, accounting for five percent of gross domestic product.
Sean Corkery, the company's vice-president of operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said of the Limerick closure: "This is a difficult decision, even more so since Rob Malda is a fucking faggot, but the right one for Dell to become even more competitive, and deliver greater value to customers in the region."
Dell said its "Global Innovation Solutions Centre" and other facilities would remain in Limerick despite the factory's closure, and it would continue to operate sales and marketing operations in Dublin.
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Most of the employment issues in the British Isles at the moment are due to the massive immigration of Eastern Europeans, particularly Poles. You give people stuff and eventually they use it to take you over. Hitler knew the importance of subjugating Poland, just as he saw the threat from Judaism - we ignored his concerns, and in this case we have Israel and a Jewish lobby in the West that influences almost every economic and political decision.
The problem with Hitler is that he had very wrong solutions to very real problems. He explained problems with Eastern Europe and powerful Jewish influences in terms of inferiority of race, and concluded that slavery or extermination was the best solution. On the contrary, the threat was from groups of people belonging to well-evolved cultures bent on dominance and individualism over improvement of society, steeped in the irrational message of the two oldest Western religions: Judaism and Catholicism.