I couldn't believe it when I read in the Business Journal that an Italian furniture manufacturer in business since 1971 is renting their North American headquarters at The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship in Greensboro.
Yes, I know this isn't what we normally consider money laundering but it also isn't what The Nussbaum Center, a Greensboro City funded, non profit was founded to do. You see, the purpose of The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship in Greensboro was to help create entrepreneurs in Greensboro who would keep their profits in Greensboro, not lure in foreign competitors to existing Greensboro and Guilford County businesses who will take their profits not only out of Greensboro but out of the United States altogether.
And what about the many privately owned vacant buildings all across Greensboro and Guilford County? Are their owners now expected to compete with taxpayer funded non profits? I admit, I'm not always a fan of our local developers but even they shouldn't be subjected to government subsidized foreign competition. This, my friends is Fascism at it's finest moment and proof once again that the people running Greensboro are either clueless or on the take-- you decide.
