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OT--Bush favorability up, Kerry's down
On 28 Jul 2004 04:06:43 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:
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?
Uh, they're already gone. Boeing moved to Chicago, and the "new hires" are
about 1/30th of the number of folks that Boeing laid off here in the last few
years.
Also, have you ever looked at a P&L? Wages make up about 1/5 of
total expenses.
Less than that, if you're got a clever Republican running the company. :-)
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".
Bullshirt.
Take 1.5 billion of the same money, give it (don't even loan it) as matching
capital grants to people who have presented a *qualified* business plan for an
enterprise that will create jobs in the community and you will see far more
than 2000 jobs result, plus all the spin off jobs from suppliers, retailers,
service workers, etc.
Figure half of the enterprises go TU within
2-3 years. Still way, way, ahead of buying jobs from Boeing at $1.5mm apiece.
In a few years, when it's time to build the next plane, Boeing will come around
once again with the tin cup and demand even more concessions.
We ought to just get in bed with the Mafia.
At least they are obvious when shaking a victim down.
Everytime I bust my suspension on a pothole in the road or watch them close a
fire station or a library I can be ever so grateful that your cronies in the
Center for Business Supremacy, or whatever, think that government services
should be withheld from common people, but provided to their companies at a
newly reduced charge.
The bottom line: Those big businesses provide the lifeblood to provide
many community services. Local governments are motivated to do
whatever they can to retain those bigger businesses as they are all
too cognizant of the fact that if those businesses leave, the loss in
tax revenue will have to be made up for by the residents, in the form
of higher property and income taxes. Since politicians are always to
blame, any one who has to raise taxes might as well say good-bye to
his office.
Dave
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