Yesterday, UNCG Professor Andrew Brod wrote:
"Now, shifting gears (I'm full of puns today!), why are we trying to attract an automotive plant?
Because it'd be huge!
An automobile plant would be a tremendous asset to the local economy, and by no means would it be an injection of an alien activity into a textile/apparel body. We have a pretty strong transportation/logistics cluster in this region, including parts manufacturers. Now, nothing here implies that we should overpay for such a plant; the question of incentives is a separate issue. But an auto plant would be great."
But it was on August 25th that Greensboro's very own George Hartzman pitched The Greensboro Car right here on this very blog.
You see, it's not that George, myself and others don't have great ideas. It's because the elites want to be the ones to take credit for those ideas. We could have already been started on the project of building our own cars but the Professor Brods of the world prefer to compete in the incentives game with every other city in the world to "lure" multinational mercenaries to Greensboro who will only leave when some other city waves a bigger carrot on a stick.
Pathetic, isn't it
"Now, shifting gears (I'm full of puns today!), why are we trying to attract an automotive plant?
Because it'd be huge!
An automobile plant would be a tremendous asset to the local economy, and by no means would it be an injection of an alien activity into a textile/apparel body. We have a pretty strong transportation/logistics cluster in this region, including parts manufacturers. Now, nothing here implies that we should overpay for such a plant; the question of incentives is a separate issue. But an auto plant would be great."
But it was on August 25th that Greensboro's very own George Hartzman pitched The Greensboro Car right here on this very blog.
You see, it's not that George, myself and others don't have great ideas. It's because the elites want to be the ones to take credit for those ideas. We could have already been started on the project of building our own cars but the Professor Brods of the world prefer to compete in the incentives game with every other city in the world to "lure" multinational mercenaries to Greensboro who will only leave when some other city waves a bigger carrot on a stick.
Pathetic, isn't it
