I’m just going to say it. There are some elected, and unelected if last week was any indication with the Walt Baker incident, officials that have no damned clue about economic development and job creation.
If we want Volkswagen and other international companies to come here and bring us the jobs we desperately need, we can’t be flipping them off in public to their faces. I’m a hippie liberal. I hate the military-industrial complex as much as the next person. But people in this state need to eat. They need to work. So, you, as a legislator had better put out the welcome mat.
To pretend like we’re in any position to piss off Volkswagen just shows you have no idea how desperately people in this state need jobs.
The sound that you hear which sounds like a hammer banging on an Air-Stream trailer is my head bashing into my desk this morning.
I have a request. Let’s call our elected officials and ask them questions they should know the answer to. Which is how much money is going into the Free and Reduced Lunch program right now in each school district because I think they might see that does tie into job creation. I also think that going here might show certain xenophobic legislators the unemployment numbers and loss of industry in their counties again.
We live in a global economy. Why can’t some of our elected officials remember that?