What your story well demonstrates is that with the march of neoliberalism, free-market USA - socialistic EU is increasingly only a perception and bizarrely, that perception is enough for America-admiring neolibs to push things even further down the slope here when we 'reach' US level. Sad, sad.

BTW, I do remember that before you went lurking, you spoke about joining the local Left Party or something. If you did so, or at least have some connections to them, maybe telling them about this factory would make sense.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}