Did I finally make it through to them? No Pats game on the front page?
No, I'm talking the Looter's Bowl because they are TOSSING MORE TAX DOLLARS at SPECIAL INTERESTS than WE ARE!
"some think Massachusetts, with high costs for businesses, including real estate, utilities, taxes, and labor, could do better"
And WAIT until you see WHO "some" are/is!
FLASHBACK:
"Michigan governor struggles to bring in new jobs; State’s industries especially hit hard" by Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post | October 11, 2009
LANSING, Mich. - If the future of American manufacturing lies in green industries, the Michigan governor’s pursuit of jobs offers a cautionary tale.
Four years ago, Jennifer M. Granholm set out to remake her state, which took an exceptional walloping with the decline of the auto industry, as a pioneer in creating environmentally friendly jobs. Today, however, jobs are still disappearing much faster than she can create them, raising questions about how long it will take Michigan and other hard-hit states to find new industries to employ their workers.
Since taking office in 2003, Granholm has created 163,300 positions, her office says. She expects that a recent infusion of more than $1 billion from the Obama administration aimed at nurturing car battery and electric-vehicle projects will generate 40,000 more positions by 2020.
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Yeah, let's pit STATE against STATE!
In the past decade, however, as the auto industry has grown smaller, Michigan has lost 870,000 jobs - about 632,000 of them during Granholm’s tenure. The number is expected to reach 1 million by late next year, the end of her term.
Related: "Green Stimulus Money Costs More Jobs Than It Creates, Study Shows
Every “green job” created with government money in Spain over the last eight years came at the cost of 2.2 regular jobs, and only one in 10 of the newly created green jobs became a permanent job, says a new study released this month. The study draws parallels with the green jobs programs of the Obama administration. President Obama, in fact, has used Spain’s green initiative as a blueprint for how the United States should use federal funds to stimulate the economy. Obama's economic stimulus package,which Congress passed in February, allocates billions of dollars to the green jobs industry."
I have often noticed the disparity between the TENS of THOUSANDS of JOBS we are SHEDDING with the GREEN PROMISE of HUNDREDS!!!
In her effort to attract employers, the governor has taken up the latest arms in the economic arsenal - tax credits, loans, Super Bowl tickets, and a willingness to travel as far as Japan for a weekend to try to persuade an auto parts company to bring more jobs to Michigan.
So much for the environment.
That what you want tax dough being used for, taxpayers?
She has won solar and wind energy, electric car batteries, and movie production jobs.
Oh, that last one is NOT A GOOD IDEA!
See: Slow Saturday Special: Day at the Movies
About 10,800 of the new positions came from overseas companies, according to her office, the fruits of visits to seven countries. “We have great bones as a state,’’ she said. “We know how to build stuff. We will build on that strength and diversify this economy. We will lead the nation in creating jobs in renewable energy. We’re not going to be viewed as Luddites.’’
In a state hit so hard by the recession, though, securing every new job has required enormous effort: mobilizing the state bureaucracy, negotiating tax deals with a politically divided legislature, dispelling impressions that Michigan is a prounion state and inhospitable to business. Granholm’s confidence was severely tested three years ago when appliance maker Electrolux closed its century-old refrigerator plant in Greenville, 160 miles northwest of Detroit, and moved to Mexico, taking 3,000 jobs from the town of 8,000.
As Granholm told the story in her office, overlooking the state Capitol, tears welled up in her eyes. She had spent months calling, e-mailing, and meeting with city and state officials trying to sway the company to take a package worth about $70 million in tax breaks to stay in Michigan. Electrolux left anyway.
Granholm visited with workers at an orchard near the plant within days of the last refrigerators coming off the assembly line, and the employees ate a “last supper’’ of boxed lunches while a band played. Her staff had scheduled 45 minutes. She stayed three hours, listening to workers’ stories. “I went to say, ‘I’m sorry,’ ’’ Granholm said. “We couldn’t save it. I can’t even say it now. I stayed until the last guy left.’’
Granholm remembered coming home and telling her husband, “I just don’t know what to do for people.’’ A $37 million tax package helped persuade Michigan-based United Solar Ovonic to build a solar panel production plant on the Electrolux property instead of pursuing a South Carolina offer.
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What, how do you keep score?"Michigan luring Bay State business; Incentives, breaks on tax raise ante" by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff | November 9, 2009
Michigan made alternative fuel maker Mascoma a priority. Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm offered the company tax incentives, grants, and promises of federal funding while promoting Michigan’s charms: manufacturing expertise, a workforce loaded with engineering talent, and a population of ready-made clients.
Today Mascoma, which makes a gasoline substitute from wood chips and other materials, is spending more than $200 million to build a factory in Kinross, Mich. Groundbreaking is set for next year. Michigan is emerging as one of Massachusetts’ fiercest competitors in the race to become a hub for clean technology companies.
Yeah, PITTING STATE against STATE always works for the citizenry of the nation.
But all you here from politicians is this unity crap as government (you, taxpayer) is shaken down by special interests.
And Massachusetts, despite being the birthplace of many of these technologies and the companies they spawn, is losing ground to Michigan’s money and determination.
During the last three years, Granholm has persuaded A123 Systems, the Watertown battery company, and
After we gave them all the tax loot and tax breaks!
What ungrateful bastards!
See: Slow Saturday Special: Evergreen Turns Brown
And it turns out to have been a LOSE-LOSE!?
Governor Deval Patrick acknowledged the competition, saying Granholm “busted my chops’’ over the A123 deal.
That was not YOUR MONEY to toss away, governor -- it was ours.
WE are the ones who got busted in a whole other place!
Massachusetts “just couldn’t match’’ Michigan’s incentives, Patrick said, although he noted the Michigan project is expected to result in 100 new jobs at the company’s Watertown headquarters.
Yeah, we are going to LOSE JOBS in the whole deal, but he'll look at the alleged "gain" only.
See: Massachusetts Residents Taken For a Ride on the T
Keep shoveling, guv!
And he does.
“We’d like it all, to be sure, but this is good for the country,’’ he said, “and we get the bragging rights of being the hometown of a pioneer.’’
Granholm said she’s just doing “what you’ve got to do’’ when trying to go from “the Rust Belt to the Green Belt.’’ She has traveled to California, Germany, and Japan to lure businesses to Michigan, which has the highest unemployment rate among the 50 states. With the auto industry in decline, Granholm said, Michigan officials several years ago began identifying industries they thought could help diversify the state’s economy. They then created incentives and tax breaks, such as “advanced battery credits’’ for companies that build electric car batteries and an “anchor status credit’’ that rewards businesses whose presence attracts other companies.
How do you calculate that? Like a stimulus?
Michigan also aggressively markets itself with an advertising campaign that features actor and longtime resident Jeff Daniels in national television commercials....
If anything, that is turning me off to a visit.
Michigan has an extra advantage right now because the federal government is eager to help the state recover from auto industry losses, said Nick d’Arbeloff, head of the New England Clean Energy Council, which promotes the region’s clean technology cluster.... “the government dollars available make it an offer that they can’t refuse.’’
Uh-oh! We are the government and we are here to loot, 'er, help?
Are ALL THE LIES HELPING?! Really? For our own good?
That's hard to imagine given the state of the nation today (aside from the select few in media and government!).
And listen to the arrogant "cluster-f***" talk. Like the back-stabbing, false-flagging intelligence "community." You guys are something.
Never mind that MOB BOSS of a GOVERNMENT, huh? OFFER you can't refuse?
That was true for A123 Systems. In August, the company won $249.1 million from the US Department of Energy to build a factory in Livonia, Mich., to supply Chrysler Corp. and other customers with electric car batteries as part of $2.4 billion in stimulus aid to boost the auto industry in general and the production of electric vehicles specifically. More than $1 billion of that money went to companies and institutions with projects in Michigan.
Michigan, too, was generous with A123, promising the company a $10 million state grant for a research and development institute and more than $100 million in tax credits.
And I'M SURE ALL THOSE UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE whose SERVICES will be CUT are feeling great about that!
=“Michigan has a lot going there,’’ said David Vieau, A123’s chief executive. But, he said, his company’s expansion there should not be viewed as a knock to Massachusetts.... “We’re very much a Massachusetts business,’’ he said then. “Our roots are at MIT.’’
No, they just took the highest taxpayer-funded state bribe; how can you blame 'em for that? Actually, I'm glad your looting ass is leaving!
Mascoma went to Michigan to be close to the nation’s automotive heart, and to take advantage of the state’s abundant natural resources, the raw material for its biofuel. The company, which this year moved its headquarters from Boston to Lebanon, N.H., received $23.5 million in incentives from Michigan and $26 million from the federal energy department to build its factory in Kinross.
Also see: What Are Little Farts Made Of?
U.S. Wants to Starve You and Ruin Your Car Engine at the Same Time
And they moved the HQ to New Hampsha', huh? They can keep 'em.
Massachusetts officials have used some of the same tools as Michigan to court companies, including grants, tax breaks, and bids for federal money.
What's next the Louisiana lip-lock?
And earlier this year Patrick spent a few days on the West Coast visiting technology and energy companies that have a presence in Massachusetts to encourage them to expand in the Bay State.
I guess that would be the L.A. lip-lock then. Now unzip them pants.
A champion of clean technology, the governor wants a cluster of such companies here.
Yup, a cluster to f*** us.
Tell you what: give 'em the swine flu vaccine; then maybe they will go away.
Last year, he signed a set of so-called green laws meant not only to make the state a renewable energy leader but to spur the growth of such businesses in the state. Still, some think Massachusetts, with high costs for businesses, including real estate, utilities, taxes, and labor, could do better. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston president Eric Rosengren said the state might be more competitive if it better marketed Western Massachusetts. “We may not have sold some of our low-cost areas,’’ he said.
He means POOR, folks!!!!
Yes, the POOREST COUNTY in the WHOLE BLOOMIN' STATE!!!!!!!
Yes, WE HAVEN'T BEEN EXPLOITED ENOUGH so lets bring the PROMISE of JOBS to our SLAVES!
Yeah, the ONE TIME the STATE OFFICIALS DISOBEY their BANKING MASTERS is when they RAISE TAXES, can you believe it?
Massachusetts is best at bringing new technologies to life and should play to that advantage, said Amy Glasmeier, head of the urban studies and planning department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. State officials need to figure out how to promote growth based on breakthroughs from that “font of innovation,’’ she said.
Actually, I'M KINDA TIRED of the YANKEE ARROGANCE myself!
I never realized HOW PERNICIOUS it was since I have been STEEPED IN IT ALL MY LIFE!!!!!
Massachusetts officials do have success stories, particularly at Devens. The Patrick administration persuaded Evergreen to build its first solar panel manufacturing plant in the former Army base by offering more than $76 million in grants, land, loans, tax incentives, and other aid.
But?
Some $67 million in similar incentives drew drug maker
Yeah, buuuuuttt......
But betting on an emerging industry can be risky.
Not when it is TAX DOLLARS at stake and NOT YOUR OWN!!!!
Facing increased competition and plunging prices for solar panels, Evergreen executives said last week that they would shift some of the work at Devens to China, probably costing some jobs here....
Yeah, "probably."
Another BAD, BAD, BAD WORD for a "report!"
Even as it considers job cuts in Massachusetts, Evergreen is building a factory in Midland, Mich., helped by a $1.8 million tax credit and a 12-year tax break worth $3.9 million. The plant is expected to employ 101 people, and Michigan officials said it will help create 500 jobs.
That is WHY your are GETTING JOB CUTS, Bay-Stater!
Evergreen spokesman Chris Lawson said the company chose Midland because it will be close to Dow
Ian Bowles, Massachusetts’ secretary of energy and environmental affairs, acknowledged that keeping companies here will be difficult, but said the state will meet the challenge.
What does that mean?
Give 'em the KEYS to the CAPITOL and a blow-job to boot?
“Ultimately, companies start and grow in Massachusetts because of our assets - technological know-how, strong venture capital sector, and highly skilled workforce - and in the case of clean energy, because of our competitive energy market and high environmental standards. I expect that to continue and accelerate as the nation and the world move toward clean energy solutions.’’
I'm sorry, readers, but I DO NOT SPEAK GIBBERISH!!!!
