Posted on 07/14/2017 6:09:44 PM PDT by mdittmar
Well, spoon feeding these industries
sticks a knife into the taxpayers
and I say fork that.
$88,500 in federal funding;)
Wow!
$88K
That’s like a really small CNC or maybe the net payroll costs for a janitor.
Who the Fk are you kidding Chuckie? Upstate NY is an extension of Appalachia. You and your buddies in the State government have decimated what was once a manufacturing powerhouse. Now the only jobs are in the state run universities (there are about 20 of them) or in the jail system.
New York has gone to hell and $88k is a big deal now
The state spent megabucks advertising for suckers and one got chickenfeed
Seems chuck can’t deliver the gravy like harry reid did.
Socialism.
Who voted for this?
interesting...
Instead of government cronies handing out federal money to companies they “like” ... why not just lower business taxes?
Over 20 years ago, a business consulting pal won a gig advising NYS how to attract business, public-private partnerships, etc. He was really gong-ho to apply his business knowledge and really re-ignite NYS.
Having grown up there through age 14 and having paid attention to the adults, I knew it was a fool’s errand. Some things like Illinois and New York simply cannot change.
Cost to apply for grant: $10,000
Cost to govt to review grant proposals and make awards (per proposal): $20,000
Cost to company to fill in the gazillion forms showing the government you have the “right” employee mix: $20,000
Cost to govt to review and file all that crapola: $20,000
Cost to company when govt accuses them of not hiring enough left handed, twelve toed Hispanic lesbians: $100,000
Cost to company to hire specialist law team to extricate themselves from the aforesaid endless mess: $300,000
Net drag on economy: $500,000
[Who the Fk are you kidding Chuckie? Upstate NY is an extension of Appalachia. You and your buddies in the State government have decimated what was once a manufacturing powerhouse. Now the only jobs are in the state run universities (there are about 20 of them) or in the jail system.]
The fracking ban consigned upstate to permanent tobacco road status.
'Nuff said...
Buying votes.
you forgot to add in all the kickbacks to the politicians
Chuckie bringing home the big bacon
Dang, you’re right. I should have known better, too. I worked for a startup tech company once. We had great technology and sought federal R&D money to convert it to military applications. Our CEO made a number,of “campaign contributions” to help our case...and we won some great awards.
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