If you are from North Carolina, you recall all the hull, and the aballoo, about the mighty Dell plant in Winston-Salem.
Well, after sucking down enormous tax subsidies from the city, and cash subsidies, from the state, the plant is closing. It was only here four years, but it burned through tens of millions of taxpayer dollars.
I have to give my fellow Poli Sci prof., and state rep., Paul Luebke credit: He voted no from the outset. Paul and I agree on more than you might think, even though he is a liberal Dem. Or, maybe BECAUSE he is.
All the other "Will Lay Down For Money" prostitutes in the NC Legislature, including a whole lot of Repubs, voted yes.
Look, as I said repeatedly during the campaign: If a company will come here for money they will leave for money. We don't want Dell, or Google, to throw us crumbs. We want a business and tax environment such that the NEXT Dell, or Google, STARTS here in NC!
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Hey Angus, one of your senators is trying to cut political science's NSF funding to zero:
http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=82180b1f-a03e-4600-a2e5-846640c2c880
He even singled out Chris Gelpi for a slam:
"$91,601 to conduct a survey to determine why people are for or against American military conflicts;9"
...ya keep failing to mention the apple shindig.
Ol' Bev whored it up for cupertino, too.
Interesting, I wonder what could a company like this if they are lossing money, besides firing people.
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