PA Loses 26,000 jobs in Nov, Most Since 1996…
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What a great investment “economic development” has been! If we’d double or triple the amount spent on “economic development”, we might be able to get rid of all those pesky manufacturers, drillers, and miners who cause global warming.
More money spent on “economic development” would also keep more people from driving back and forth to work, which would help the precious environment.
So, lets waste even more money on biofuels, windmills, solar power and other things that don’t work, can’t work, but sound good.
If we can just keep wasting money on those things, we won’t be able to buy more nuclear reactors, which produce power cheaply, but don’t sound good. Then, we will have acheived the real goal of “economic development”, driving the most productive people out of Pennsylvania and replacing them with fad-chasers.
If there’s a D next to the name, you mustn’t blame.
‘Nuff said (beat that)
I have an idea!
Let’s raise taxes on businesses! That will convince them to stay, to invest, to grow, and to hire more people!
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Wow…that really sounds stupid, doesn’t it? So why do so many in Harrisburg think it’s a great idea???
Massive tax cuts, anyone?
Or, we could unionize everyone so that all business will leave, but at least we’ll have lifetime benefits.
How about massive politician cuts?
In Allegheny County, it starts with Dan Onorato, who is a sleazebag. He is one of the most arrogant politicians I have ever seen and feels that he can do whatever he wants.
In addition, with Pittsburgh City Mayor, Luke Ravenstahl (AKA, Boy Wonder- who does not even have the courage to either sign or veto the Gun Bill)the 2 of them have no idea of the concept of free market capitalism or supply-side economics, they actually believe that Government can create an economy. The City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County can only hope that neither of them runs for re-election ANYWHERE in PA. Sorry Guys, Communism and Socialism do not work. If you let the people do their own thinking, the city and county will thrive. If not, Pittsburgh will become Detroit. The high taxes in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County are killing businesses.
That is why Westinghouse is leaving Monroeville and moving to Cranberry. Lower taxes, that is what drives businesses to relocate and create jobs, it is called incentives. Punishing businesses with high taxes gives no reason to remain in Pittsburgh or Pennsylvania, for that matter. Of course, what do we know, we are only the people. The politicians are the smartest people in the world, just ask them.
No, no, no, Rich……you don’t understand…….you see, taxing businesses to fund Ed’s “Prescription for Pennsylvania” (Last year’s version of the socialized medicine idiocy) was going to make our businesses more competitive…….because they wouldn’t have to provide medical coverage for their employees. Pfft. I kid you not…….
Rich, Rich, Rich….you clearly don’t understand economics or how Harrisburg “works.”
Maybe that’s why I like “hiding” in Grove City.
We just cut our property taxes by 37.7%…from 4 mills down to 2.5 mills.
Y’all are welcome to live here!
That’s assuming there is a company to work for after everyone is unionized. Unless of course we all end up working for the government.
I think I’ve got it figured out. Elect officials who aren’t asshats.
We already do work for the government. We just don’t get a benefit package or a paycheck.
Too many people running around with degrees in business management that never worked in the business they were hired to manage. The same can be said for those running Pennsylvania. Most have degrees up the wazoo but never worked a job, don’t have a clue as to how things actually run.
You could see this coming in the late 1960’s when the push for more education came about. Colleges of one sort or another opened up in every little dinky hamlet in the country.While there’s nothing wrong with education, there is a problem when you try to educate people that don’t have the intelligence to absorb that education. Eveyone goes to college and gets a degree but not necessarily an education. Resulting in people educated beyond their intelligence. Look around, it’s everywhere and it costs dearly. It will probably cost us our country.
Good points, Stephen. Other problems caused by “higher” education is the huge number of students who are talked into getting useless degrees, like Anthropology, Sociology, Imaginary Eco-Problems, and many others.
Such students graduate with no hope of employment and huge debt burdens. Naturally, they don’t want to ever have to get their precious hands dirty, and expect a government job. Many elected officials are anxious to comply, raising our taxes to fund ever more uselessness.
The one good thing about the credit crunch is that loans for “higher education” may be severely curtailed. I’m sure the government will find some way to bail the system out, but I’m sure many school will either have to adapt or go under like normal businesses. Nothing could be better for the economy and younger people as a whole to have them go straight from high school to working a real job. Hopefully many of these colleges will go away or even better retool away from liberal arts (a luxury eduction) to engineering and practical vocations where people can learn some valuable skill that they can use to provide goods and services that people want. Who knows what chaos will grip our economy in four years though when we have a sudden shortage of Art History and French majors.
Better an MBA than a JD