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Southern Like Us (Why Mercedes is moving to Georgia!!)
National Review Online ^ | 2-17-2015 | Lee Habeeb

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: georgia; mercedes; newjersey
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To: ConservativeInPA
One reason for the shift is the decades long focus on vocational education in many Southern states.

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.

41 posted on 02/17/2015 7:59:47 AM PST by jamaksin
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To: C. Edmund Wright
To clarify, Apple wouldn’t exist as they exist today. They would be a dramatically smaller company and would have created far less American jobs.

Free traitor religious dogma.

42 posted on 02/17/2015 8:00:49 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

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.


43 posted on 02/17/2015 8:05:13 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: central_va

Go have some eggrolls.....it’ll do you good....


44 posted on 02/17/2015 8:06:31 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

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?


45 posted on 02/17/2015 8:08:39 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

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!


46 posted on 02/17/2015 8:10:01 AM PST by Savage Beast (The left doesn't recognize the difference between good and evil or rather has it backward.MtnClimber)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Maybe that secessionist movement could be combined with others, e.g. the Hawaii secessionist movement.


47 posted on 02/17/2015 8:19:05 AM PST by Savage Beast (The left doesn't recognize the difference between good and evil or rather has it backward.MtnClimber)
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To: odawg

I am TRULY sorry to hear this.


48 posted on 02/17/2015 8:22:27 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: ConservativeInPA
Too bad the folks in GA have to deal with 1,000 NJ immigrants.

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."

49 posted on 02/17/2015 8:35:22 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: C. Edmund Wright

But they’re bringing 1000 people along who will continue to vote liberal.


50 posted on 02/17/2015 8:42:20 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Savage Beast

China was a “liberal” paradise -i.e. Communist. They already learned that lesson in spades.


51 posted on 02/17/2015 8:47:32 AM PST by aquila48
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To: aquila48

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.


52 posted on 02/17/2015 9:03:40 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Savage Beast

I like the idea of virtual secession....


53 posted on 02/17/2015 9:05:26 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Savage Beast

you missed my smiley face.....


54 posted on 02/17/2015 9:06:16 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: central_va

no more pearl before swine.......


55 posted on 02/17/2015 9:15:58 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: central_va

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.


56 posted on 02/17/2015 9:26:39 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

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.


57 posted on 02/17/2015 9:44:35 AM PST by aquila48
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To: C. Edmund Wright
A few words from the patron saint of the Unions and collective bargaining .... FDR:

“… Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the government. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations … The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for … officials … to bind the employer … The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives …"

58 posted on 02/17/2015 10:17:46 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Virtual?


59 posted on 02/17/2015 3:01:55 PM PST by Savage Beast (The left doesn't recognize the difference between good and evil or rather has it backward.MtnClimber)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Oops! I’m a dim bulb—might as well face it.


60 posted on 02/17/2015 3:02:41 PM PST by Savage Beast (The left doesn't recognize the difference between good and evil or rather has it backward.MtnClimber)
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