If you turned on your television this morning or opened up your copy of the News & Fishwrap you probably already know about Sturm, Ruger & Co's decision to buy the old textile mill in Mayodan and bring 350 to 500 jobs to Rockingham County. And maybe you're wondering why Greensboro, a city with all the infrastructure, international airport, multiple Interstate highways, multiple railroads and an inland port failed to land a corporation that will no doubt need all those things to do business?
Could it be the cost of buying an old building in Rockingham County is such a big cost saver over the cost of buying one of Roy Carroll's new buildings in Greensboro or Guilford County? You know, Greensboro used to have lots of old mills until our local developer elites saw the "need" to tear them down and implode them to build empty new buildings with assistance from taxpayers. If so that would prove shovel ready doesn't work.
Could it be the tax structure in Greensboro is an impediment to business locating here?
Could it be Sturm, Ruger executives are concerned about exposing their families to the "fights breaking out among 300, 400 or 500 people" as Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins claims take place in Greensboro? Gun makers tend to be a conservative lot, you know. But hey, they're not so conservative they don't know how to use a search engine, gun making is pretty high tech stuff these days. Any gangsta in Greensboro knows how to make a zip gun but to make a Ruger-- that takes skill and talent.
Perhaps it's Greensboro's reputation as the most corrupt city in the State of North Carolina? Who told me that? A member of the NC House of Representatives not from Greensboro, whose name I'll not repeat.
Or perhaps it's because the Greensboro Partnership, aka, Action Greensboro, the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, the Greensboro Economic Development Alliance and several other shadow companies-- Greensboro's very own taxpayer funded economic development "non profit" is entirely inept and in the pockets of Robbie Perkins, Roy Carroll, Milton Kern and the rest of the Downtown Greensboro cartel?
Or it could be just because Greensboro leaders are stupid, fat and lazy-- who knows?
Y'all enjoy your day and try not to run over any mopeds as you just might be destroying Greensboro's chances for future economic development. Did you know that some automakers began as makers of bicycles and mopeds? You don't attract automakers to a region, you grow them. Think about it.
