Search:  

 
 
   All ForumsHot TopicsGallery






how-to block ads


 
Forums » If You Build it, Google Comes » The Dalles?
Search Topic:
Share Topic:
RSS topic:
toggle:
flat / full
normal / watch
Post a:
Post a:
The Dalles »
« Oregon Trail  
AuthorAll Replies

RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
·AT&T Midwest

reply to oliphant
Re: The Dalles?

said by oliphant See Profile:

said by RadioDoc See Profile:

And people willing to work for nothing, and local governments willing to give them tax breaks to employ people at minimum wage. Fiber is just the cover story...
Yeah, probably would have been better to build the call center in India and leave those people unemployed.

What employees seem to forget is while they think they're underpaid and God's gift to their employer, in reality they're only worth in pay what it costs to replace them. If they get minimum wage it's only because they can be easily replaced by someone else at minimum wage. And when unions and the like try to artificially inflate those 'fair' wages, they just end up sending those jobs overseas. Of course people will flame me for point out the obvious, but if they ran their own business they would run it exactly the same.
First off I do run my own business. Three of them in fact. If employees make me money I hire them. If they don't they're gone. Simple Economics 101. If I can get incentives to locate in an area which gains me a significant short-term windfall I would consider it, especially when there is no downside of leaving the suckers locals high and dry in five years. I am not the local employment office nor do I have any obligation to pay anyone a cent more than I have to.

There are a lot of "incentives" given to lure company Q to location Z and many of them are justified by dangling the carrot of "future tax revenue" in front of desperate local governments. When all those promised $60,000 jobs do not materialize, or they are moved elsewhere the day after whatever term commitment the company signs is over, the town or county is stuck with all of this nice infrastructure nobody wants but the local taxing authority issued tax anticipation bonds to finance and is now up a fast-moving creek without an outboard motor. The same forces which lure a vagabond company to an area just as easily lures them out.

Nobody learned anything from the employment-stealing state, county and local government antics of the late 1980's and early '90s I guess.

I wish all of them success. Too bad they won't get it.
--
The revolution will not go better with Coke.


garagerock
Premium
join:2002-06-14
Louisville, KY
The Robber Barons of the Gilded Age have spoken. Bravo to progress.
Forums » If You Build it, Google ComesThe Dalles »
« Oregon Trail  


Monday, 30-Nov 22:50:32 Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Hosting by www.nac.net - DSL,Hosting & Co-lo | feedback | contact
over 10 years online! © 1999-2009 dslreports.com.republican-creole
page compression OFF
Most commented news this week
· [50] Baltimore To Ban Lazy Cable Installs
· [41] Broadband Killed The Game Console
· [31] Rural Carriers Quickly Embracing Fiber
· [28] AT&T Top Lobbyist Cicconi Has His Feelings Hurt
· [23] Charter Exits Chapter 11
· [21] Midcontinent Socked With Easement Lawsuit
· [3] Monday Morning Links
· [2] Monday Evening Links
Most people now reading
· Is Microsoft Technet ok to use for my family PC's? [Microsoft Help]
· Heating - my dad gave me this advice... [Home Repair & Improvement]
· [NFL] Week 12 Games Thread [Sports Chat]
· Connecting to Google Voice Via SIP [VOIP Tech Chat]
· Windows 7 boot manager editing questions [Microsoft Help]
· ToC 4th boss - Preliminary Strategy for Twin Valkyr [World of Warcraft]
· Issues tonight in North TX? [AT&T Southwest]
· buying a one way ticket [General Questions]
· Wind getting a little more aggressive [TekSavvy]
· [Newsgroups] Newzleech down? [Filesharing Software]