You can afford a million-dollar meal can't you, taxpayers?
"Mass. woos life sciences companies; Announces partners at D.C. conference" by Robert Weisman, Globe Staff / June 30, 2011
WASHINGTON — “The life sciences community in Massachusetts is on fire,’’ Governor Deval Patrick told a luncheon crowd at the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s annual gathering. Patrick said his 10-year, $1 billion life sciences initiative, begun in 2008, so far has invested $200 million in public money, generated more than $700 million in private financing, and helped create thousands of jobs.
Related: Biotech Giveaway Was Borrowed Money
I hope the interest payments have been well worth it for an industry that rarely turns a profit.
They do pay their CEOs well, though!
Also see:
Massachusetts' Lost Decade of Jobs
Those Are the (Tax) Breaks in Massachusetts
Boston Globe's Biotech Bubble Bursts
And the good guv is also a liar, huh?
Earlier in the day, Patrick shared a podium with US Senator John F. Kerry, state Senate President Therese Murray, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, and other officials at a breakfast for 125 business leaders and visitors from several countries at a Legal Sea Foods restaurant in Washington’s Chinatown. Murray lauded Legal Sea Foods owner Roger Berkowitz, who flew down to host the event, for his scrambled eggs buffet. “We thought we were having fish for breakfast,’’ she said....
What was the carbon footprint on that?
And I'll never eat seafood again, not with the possibility of it being radiated, oil-soaked, or poisoned by pollution or chemicals. Of course, that is pretty hard to escape those factors even if you try these days.
Patrick, Menino, and Murray kicked off two days of activities at the BIO convention’s 2,400-square-foot Massachusetts Pavilion on Tuesday at a reception for several hundred state business people and out-of-state guests who devoured 200 pounds of scallops donated by New Bedford’s American Pride Seafoods and drank Samuel Adams beer....
But don't drink or do drugs, kids.
City and state officials here in Washington have been highlighting the life sciences “ecosystem’’ in Massachusetts, which includes research universities, teaching hospitals, venture capital firms, and tens of thousands of science and engineering graduates.
I'm not feeling so well, readers. Usually happens when I am fed insulting bullshit.
The state’s life sciences research projects, many funded by the National Institutes of Health, have been a draw for foreign drug companies, including Novartis AG of Switzerland and Sanofi SA of France.
Oh, it is ALL GOVERNMENT DOUGH behind "life sciences," huh?
Overseas companies have increasingly become a focus of the state's efforts to recruit life sciences business. Along those lines, officials disclosed fresh agreements yesterday with government and academic partners in Israel, Northern Ireland, and Finland, toting the flags of all three countries to the Massachusetts Pavilion for the announcements.
Patrick joined with Avi Hasson, the chief scientist of Israel, to disclose a formal alliance, called the Massachusetts-Israel Innovation Partnership, that will initiate several research collaborations between Massachusetts and Israeli companies. They said the deal grew out of a trade mission the governor led to Israel and Britain in March.
Related: Governor on the Go
I was either lied to or not told the whole truth -- again!
Also see: Patrick trip to Israel nets contacts, no deals
Now my stomach is really upset.
Under the agreement, three participating state agencies, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, will commit nearly $1 million to projects with an Israeli company that has yet to be chosen. Israel will provide up to $1 million in matching funds.
And just where will the projects be developed?
See: The Big Boss Bosley
Also see: The Money Pipeline From Massachusetts to Israel
And suddenly you begin to realize it is Israel behind every agenda -- and AmeriKan media outlet.
Massachusetts is the first state to enter into such an agreement with Israel, which has large life sciences and technology sectors, officials from both sides said.
Oh, TRAILBLAZER AGAIN, yay!
I am SO EMBARRASSED that the trails blazed are this and gay marriage. As a citizen I always thought Massachusetts could do better.
How about prosecuting some Wall Street criminals or war criminals and blazing that trail instead?
The governor also said Massachusetts has hired an experienced international development hand, Hadas Bar-Or, to serve as a trade representative to Israel.
"Why Massachusetts?" Hasson asked rhetorically. "I'll be blunt. The governor knocked on our door. We kind of spoke the same language."
The best part is Israel's economy was the only one that grew during the banker-engineered, worldwide economic downturn.
Related:
"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the Jewish state had emerged "relatively unscathed" from the global recession."
They were the only one.
That tells you a whole lot about who is running this planet -- as does the Greek navy (with all their economic and social problems) blocking the Gaza Freedom Flotilla from sailing.
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The only hitch at the pavilion came during Menino's speech at Tuesday's reception, when he was partially drowned out by a salsa and merengue band performing at a nearby exhibit.
"What is this?" the mayor grumbled. "Some small city trying to compete with Boston?"
The Massachusetts pavilion responded by cranking up its own music -- some hip-hop songs followed by the inevitable "Sweet Caroline," a staple at Fenway Park.
Ugh!
You guys have been hanging around the Israelis too much because the ARROGANCE is RUBBING OFF!
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