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pecosbob
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May 26, 2020
Thirty percent of Americans believe day is night and night is day.
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Buy Fox 'News' and seed the conspiracy theory at OAN and Drudge that Obama-era deep-state discovered that a meteor is hurtling toward earth (substitute Enormous Mutant Space Goat here if you wish) and is hiding the planet's imminent destruction from all us good 'muricans. Obama and Bill Gates and Hillary and George Soros and the Chinese and NATO and MoveOn.org and the EU and the WHO are secretly building a spaceship to fly the Illuminati-la-de-dah to a new home on Proxima Dumbassii.
The hook: Elon Musk is rumoured to be secretly building a space-port on Matagorda Island Texas to construct...wait for it...'Ark B'...a first-class only, no libtards allowed, Trump's Space Force's most bestest rocket-ship in the world to Make the Universe Great Again. Only the most rigidly-screened patriotic red-blooded Americans will be accepted. All the best conservatives minds will have design input during the process based on their loyalty to Orange Mousseolini. The ship unfortunately will crash into the Atlantic off the Jersey coast shortly after takeoff.
Unemployment goes down, wages go up, the one percent all perish...a win-win.
Jonathan Swift's sense of humor updated to reconcile that of Douglas Adams.
A modest proposal (sophomoric humor alert)
Thirty percent of Americans believe day is night and night is day.
----
Buy Fox 'News' and seed the conspiracy theory at OAN and Drudge that Obama-era deep-state discovered that a meteor is hurtling toward earth (substitute Enormous Mutant Space Goat here if you wish) and is hiding the planet's imminent destruction from all us good 'muricans. Obama and Bill Gates and Hillary and George Soros and the Chinese and NATO and MoveOn.org and the EU and the WHO are secretly building a spaceship to fly the Illuminati-la-de-dah to a new home on Proxima Dumbassii.
The hook: Elon Musk is rumoured to be secretly building a space-port on Matagorda Island Texas to construct...wait for it...'Ark B'...a first-class only, no libtards allowed, Trump's Space Force's most bestest rocket-ship in the world to Make the Universe Great Again. Only the most rigidly-screened patriotic red-blooded Americans will be accepted. All the best conservatives minds will have design input during the process based on their loyalty to Orange Mousseolini. The ship unfortunately will crash into the Atlantic off the Jersey coast shortly after takeoff.
Unemployment goes down, wages go up, the one percent all perish...a win-win.
Jonathan Swift's sense of humor updated to reconcile that of Douglas Adams.
May 17, 2020
The economic development crowd is going about this all wrong
https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2020/05/13/the-economic-development-crowd-is-going-about-this-all-wrong/The leisure and hospitality industry accounts for one of every four jobs in Nevada. Or it did, anyway...
For all the hand-wringing over Nevadas failure to diversify its economy because uh-oh now look where we are, well, here we are. Nevadas economy hasnt diversified in a statistically meaningful way, it isnt going to anytime soon, and we shouldnt pretend otherwise.
Despite the earnest efforts of the states growing economic development industrial complex over the last few years, battery factories and data centers and all the other ventures Nevada has attracted by doling out publicly subsidized handouts even the holy sacred football field amen have created a workforce that is still dwarfed by the number of people directly and indirectly employed in what is or was the states primary industry.
And now, in Nevadas greatest economic crisis ever, the economic development crowd is saying what we need is more financial enticements to lure new firms to come to Nevada.As one economic development official explained to business allies last week, The strategy is to push and push hard for new job creation.
With incentives.
In other words, more of the same.
For all the hand-wringing over Nevadas failure to diversify its economy because uh-oh now look where we are, well, here we are. Nevadas economy hasnt diversified in a statistically meaningful way, it isnt going to anytime soon, and we shouldnt pretend otherwise.
Despite the earnest efforts of the states growing economic development industrial complex over the last few years, battery factories and data centers and all the other ventures Nevada has attracted by doling out publicly subsidized handouts even the holy sacred football field amen have created a workforce that is still dwarfed by the number of people directly and indirectly employed in what is or was the states primary industry.
And now, in Nevadas greatest economic crisis ever, the economic development crowd is saying what we need is more financial enticements to lure new firms to come to Nevada.As one economic development official explained to business allies last week, The strategy is to push and push hard for new job creation.
With incentives.
In other words, more of the same.
First, economic development groups and their partners should marshal their formidable collective resources to reform systemic policies and practices that make life harder for working people than it needs to be. Unaffordable child care, poverty-level wages, erratic working conditions, skimpy or non-existent health, sick leave, vacation and retirement benefits, ruthless banking options, a dearth of public transit, a profit-driven court system, one of the nations most thread-bare safety nets all those create broad workforce instability and erode the purchasing power of the consumer core of working Nevadans, which in turn hinders, to borrow a term, economic development.
Those barriers to prosperity and well-being also block performance in one area that every economic development organization in Nevada and the nation unanimously agrees is a tip top priority, education.
Those barriers to prosperity and well-being also block performance in one area that every economic development organization in Nevada and the nation unanimously agrees is a tip top priority, education.
Second, if Nevadas politically juiced-up and much-admired economic development movers and shakers want to do something that would make a difference but quick, they shouldnt be dreamily promising to attract new jobs (however few) with tax cuts and giveaways. They should be identifying the most expeditious way possible for the state to reverse the tax cuts and giveaways that have already been bestowed to companies that never needed them in the first place, and then lobby like hell to replace those race-to-the-bottom incentives with responsible policy.
Amazon, Tesla, Google, Apple, Switch and yes, even the football team dont need the goodies Nevada has given them. But the state does.
The chambers of commerce, higher education institutions, and politicians have all been staunch allies of the economic development set. And they all know prosperity isnt shared in Nevada. They shouldnt be whining for tax breaks and pining for deals, begging for grants, and smiling at ribbon-cuttings.
They should be pushing economic development policy that helps people who work in the jobs Nevada has (or had, but will someday have again), not cheering on economic development agencies as they muse about how wonderful it will be when every Nevada child learns to code or whatever.
Amazon, Tesla, Google, Apple, Switch and yes, even the football team dont need the goodies Nevada has given them. But the state does.
The chambers of commerce, higher education institutions, and politicians have all been staunch allies of the economic development set. And they all know prosperity isnt shared in Nevada. They shouldnt be whining for tax breaks and pining for deals, begging for grants, and smiling at ribbon-cuttings.
They should be pushing economic development policy that helps people who work in the jobs Nevada has (or had, but will someday have again), not cheering on economic development agencies as they muse about how wonderful it will be when every Nevada child learns to code or whatever.
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