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CJE Candidate Mike Stephens: Response to FoL closing Third response to Election 2014, Issue Question: What will I do, if elected, or re-elected, to address the employment and economic problems created by the closing of the Fruit of the Loom Plant at Jamestown? CJE Ann Melton's answer came 6 days ago. Next was : Joe Rogers' response Mike Stephens response follows below. The letters are being posted in order of receipt. Issues/Election 2014: Responses to Fruit of Loom Closing From Mike Stephens, Candidate for Democratic Nomination for Adair CJE The 600 jobs lost at Jamestown is hard for our community but we just received the GREATEST news after years of waiting. Lake Cumberland is back to full pool and that means full tourism economy (many of us can remember when the seasonal traffic count was measured in millions on highway 127 before we had to drain the pond). The cut and sew industry has not been considered major industry for the future in this global economy. We are very thankful for them as long as we have had them. When there are countries with slave labor work forces that will make a pair of underwear for a nickel less, you will have Fruit Of The Loom closings and we have already experienced and overcome this industry a few years back with both Fruit Of The Loom and Oshkosh and then it was thousands of jobs lost which effected us locally and regionally. Leadership helps to set a positive attitude and a winning spirit for the future of our community and today our number one industry is agriculture. In the last few weeks the price for cattle, milk, and other agri products have never been higher. I have seen and talked with some of the best, well trained, enthusiastic agri producers and they are here and we need to capture the assets of this industry we already have and focus with supportive industries ( Cobb industries that I've used as an example of an opportunity missed very recently and there are many more coming to our community and we will be better prepared to close the deal). When we focus and use these business plans and ideals, our economy will support jobs, payrolls, and tax based investments I talk about in my CJE campaign. Communities working together with a winning attitude and a capable and visionary CJE for the future we can start to replace the loss of fruit loom with industries we have already working in Adair county. We can and will add new businesses because we have a career ready workforce and will retrain and give job opportunity to ones that have unfortunately lost their job to the nickel a pair underwear saving businesses by relocating to a much less capable workforce. With a vision of capturing and expanding the Agri and tourism that we already have working in our community that will bring revenues to our county and we use this revenue to attract more, new businesses. Not defeated but a bright and successful tomorrow for the working people of Adair Co. God bless you Michael Stephens This story was posted on 2014-04-15 17:28:04
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