america's most economically depressed cities resides the world's largest producer of home appliances whirlpool corp is headquartered in benton harbor michigan where sixty percent are unemployed ninety percent live in poverty and per capita income is roughly ten thousand dollars the citizens of benton harbor are living from one day to the night they're very poor and they're very disheartened i mean there's been very little effort on the part of the whirlpool that runs everything to try to. involve the community in two thousand and nine whirlpool received a nineteen point three million dollars grant from the federal government in part to create jobs and i think our u.s. workforce certainly. that three workforce if you will is that is the best among the world so we're very confident in the future of u.s. manufacturing for our kind of products one year later the corporation received nearly twenty million dollars from the state of michigan to expand its facility which now serves as a gateway into benton harbor it's good for the community good for the state and good for your business as well there's a re

because today, i think it was purchased last year, the whirlpool corp.n. >> you would eliminate tax credits to corporations. >> what i want to do it is to abolish the tax code that would deal with businesses as well. our taxes are too high, let's face it. combined effective rate of the federal and state tax burden, because all states of the offering, is about 40%. that is the only thing you need to know about why we see jobs leave the united states when a lot of countries have 25% corporate tax rates and we are weighing in a 40%. one manufacturer in westmoreland told me that he had a piece of equipment for million dollars. he could put it in the morning or he could put it into canada with a lower tax base. when i sent that piece of equipment up there, it is not just a piece of equipment but the jobs that went with it. we have to be competitive. we need to be competitive in the world and we are stifling ourselves renown. and we are deluding ourselves if we are embracing a dependency culture that looks like greece, and if we're being uncompetitive like the

whirlpool's that runs everything to try to. involve the community. how giant corporations thrive and government funds and outsource labor as home communities fall apart around them. corp is set to become the twenty eighth country to join the european union after the proposal was given the go ahead in a national referendum the country's exception now has to be approved by all current member nations with almost all ballots counted two thirds of voters expressed a desire to join the blog the spy that is ongoing debt crisis the turned out however just forty four percent pointed to apathy among many towards the issue the build up to the referendum was marred by clashes and protests or staged demonstrations right up to the vote as artie's tom barton reports opposition to joining the european union is unlikely to and here. we. see in the croatian complicated it's the country's referendum but certainly. this is being made behind me the police trying to push the protesters away you say take and seize protest his situation in many times to manipulation capital and slowing things has been doing well you know it's. going to take people away in advance of protest is trying to stop