"Gould 0738" wrote in message
...
"Not to be outdone politically, the Association for Washington Business
is
taking an unusual step. For the first time in its 100 year history, the
AWB
has announced it will endorse many incumbent state lawmakers in the Nov.
2
election. The criteria: the voting record of each lawmaker in making the
state competitive.

On its Web site, the AWB supports re-election for 13 state Senators and
35
members of the House of Representatives. There isn't a Democrat on the
list."

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Did you catch that, Chuck? "There isn't a Democrat on the list"...of
lawmakers who are making the state competitive for business and job
creation.

Here's the link:


http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/n...es/NW_072004TB
CsmallbizDS.5dd9b82.htmlhttp://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/northwest/bizco
ach/stories/NW_072004TBCsmallbizDS.5dd9b82.html

Shows how easily you can be confused by
a snapshot of a tiny portion of a broad landscape.

When Boeing was blackmailing several states simultaneously, our sell-out
Democratic Governor and state legislators panicked and reduced Boeing's
taxes
with a package worth over $3 billion over the next few years. The payoff
to the
state?
We just heard that Boeing is going to hire 2000 people here, at probably
$50k a
year average apiece. In other words, if the rest of the taxpayers in the
state
will pay more money or forego enough services to subsidize Boeing for $3
billion, Boeing will see that we get a tiny fraction of that money back in
wages.

You're kidding, right? You think that the only money Boeing gives back to
the community is the $100 million in wages given to new hires? What about
the people already working for Boeing who would have left the area if Boeing
moved? Also, have you ever looked at a P&L? Wages make up about 1/5 of
total expenses. On top of that, there is a trickle down effect of the
people who work in jobs that service those 2000 people *and* the people
already working for Boeing.

That $3 billion saved your community. Without it, Everett/Mukilteo would
look like Allentown, PA when they were (to quote Billy Joel) "closing all
the factories down".


When are elected officials--most of whom are attorneys or other people who
never held an honest job--going to realize that they don't know as much
about what's good for a business, as the business men and women running
those businesses? The Association for Washington Business represents those
businesses.