Boeing: Give us the WORLD and we will come!

We agree no loyalty by big business Boeing just had the biggest tax break package ever given in America buy Seattle but still leaving. 

http://seattletimes.com/html/l...9_westneat13xml.html

Boeing already has 2000 employees in Huntsville, 300 acres on the airport grounds, a 12,000 foot (long) runway, and a very high quality potential work force. 

But what Boeing is looking for is freebies.  And Alabama has already emptied the bank account on Hyundai, Mercedes/Vance, Thyssen-Krupp and Airbus.  And with Airbus being built, Boeing may have concerns that they'd be "second fiddle" in the state.

I'm looking for the factory to go to a state that has a deeper pocketbook.

Providing highway access costs by state and local governments is standard for large incoming plants.  However, Boeing is demanding a plant free of charge, plus many other perks.  Sorry, no welfare.

I think it's a good idea, we might lose money on Boeing but all the other plants and vendors popping up and all the taxes and taxpayers they create could really help out Alabama

I would have a problem if Federal dollars were used to support this. However, I have no problem if states and local municipalities choose to do so.

Whatever you give them, next year someone else will top it and they'll be  gone to the next feeding trough

What would you offer them jt? What would you give to have jobs move to the state? If you had a commodity, would you take the lowest offer for it? Would you have taken a cut in your salary just because others thought you were being greedy, too demanding or evil?

Give them a skilled workforce.  Give them a good progressive school system.  Give them an area with a good quality of life.  Give them entertainment after work.  Make them want to stay in the area for the rest of their life.

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I would by no means meet their current absurdly exorbitant demands, and no state should either. Boeing is like the kid in the grocery cart who asks mommy "Can I have that?"  If she gives in, he has a goody; if she does not give in, he is no worse off. Boeing is fishing and they are in search of the biggest sucker state.

{{{{ Give them a skilled workforce.  Give them a good progressive school system.  Give them an area with a good quality of life.  Give them entertainment after work.  Make them want to stay in the area for the rest of their life. }}}}

Kind of hard to find in Alabama, isn't it?

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Sounds lovely. Now then, tell me something you'd offer that they can't get somewhere else.

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Including yourself in that? Or, are you one of those special ones that is so much smarter than the rest, but for some reason weren't smart enough to leave and go where your light could shine brighter?

The problem is you can give them all these things and then the Unions will come in and upset the apple cart.  They are trying to leave Washington for this very reason.  of course, the Dems had no problem losing $160B in giveaways to GM during the Great Bailouts.  That is what it ended up costing the American taxpayer to save the Unions.

Teyates, I thought you used real numbers instead of made up talking points numbers.

Best,  I was smart enough to leave whenever I needed to.  Almost everytime that I did, I had to reprove my skill at welding, always passed the weld test.  I'm retired now, but still maintain welding certifications.

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The post was to david, that's why only his remark was in it.

Were you smart enough to know your employer paid your unemployment insurance tax, along with parts of others? Smart enough to leave, but you're back? 

My apology is supposed to be $16B, not $160B, I see where the confusion came from.

Fat fingers and an inability to type is a sure combination for error.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/20...ng-stake-in-gm/?_r=0

They wouldn't have cared if it had been 160 billion lost.

teyates,  10-4.  I've noticed, from some of these posts, that others have a much greater skill at typing than I have.