Posted on 02/17/2015 7:06:17 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
When I told my friends in New Jersey nearly ten years ago that I was packing my bags and heading south, they thought I’d lost my mind. ...(snip)......When I told them I had no desire to inherit the pension liabilities that New Jersey’s public unions and politicians were irresponsibly saddling on their own citizens, things got downright gloomy......(snip)
Last month, in a move that shocked residents of northern New Jersey, Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz USA announced it was moving its headquarters from Montvale (just miles from where I grew up) to Sandy Springs, Ga. And it’s bringing nearly 1,000 people along with it, at an average salary of nearly $80,000 per worker.
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In Alabama - Mercedes plant very near Taladaga,
In South Carolina - (in Upstate) Michelin, Mercedes, BMW, (in midlands) Continental (in Sumter), DuPont (in Camden and Florence), and in (Low Country) Boeing (in North Charleston - not "on" but close), ...
And, these are all "Right to Work" states.
Doubtful the 1K moving from NJ will happen; some might move, but no 1K.
Free traitor religious dogma.
Apple didn’t “offshore” to China - they built a production unit in China that created a monster company of mega successful products that have brought untold billions of wealth to this country. You can’t start with the assumption that every manufacturing job is by definition American, therefore any production anywhere else is “offshoring.”
That monster company has created many American millionaires in this company - employees, investors, etc. They spend untold millions renting space in American shopping centers and with their American ad agencies. Their employees and stockholders buy homes, cars, sushi, yogurt, clothing, etc.
Economics is not simple, nor is it controllable. Central Control has never worked in world history.
Go have some eggrolls.....it’ll do you good....
How brave are you free traitor types going to be if/when we get into what I think is the inevitable hot war with China? Are you going to tell us all how you support the ChiComs and we all just need to get along? Or will Free traitors be hunted down and hung form lamp posts with Chinese made nylon cord bought at the local Wall Mart?
Well…okay, Ed, but I thought it would go without saying that I wasn’t criticizing the poster… It’s the author of the article that keeps blabbing and running his mouth!
Maybe that secessionist movement could be combined with others, e.g. the Hawaii secessionist movement.
I am TRULY sorry to hear this.
My freshman year at Ga Tech was in a 4 man room. Two Georgia boys, a Mississippi boy and one from New Jersey. By the end of the year we had him settled down and normal. One big factor was that the local girls just loved his crazy accent!
I, myself, made a raid up North to steal one of their cuties as a bride (reparations for the War of Northern Aggression, you know...) Though she will never be e true G.R.I.T (Girls Raised In The South), she is definitely a Southern Belle!
As the bumper sticker says, "I Wasn't Born in the South - but I got here as quick as I could."
But they’re bringing 1000 people along who will continue to vote liberal.
China was a “liberal” paradise -i.e. Communist. They already learned that lesson in spades.
1000 out of 1000? Not even in NJ. Chances are maybe 600-400 at worst - and that’s assuming NONE of them will learn the lessons and change. Almost certainly some will.
I like the idea of virtual secession....
you missed my smiley face.....
no more pearl before swine.......
Let’s see, you and the union thugs and the bureaucrats? Or me, Reagan, Friedman, Sowell, Williams, Palin, et al?
Gee, what a tough choice. Back to your union hall liberal troll.
The point is that it moves the needle a bit to the left, just as California has Californicated its neighbors over time.
Similarly look at how Massachusetts has turned a very conservative New Hampshire into a toss up.
Virtual?
Oops! I’m a dim bulb—might as well face it.
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