Comments on: SC Policy Council: A Bailout for Boeing

By: ML

ML — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:44:48 +0000

Boeing is a lasting employer, and a far better catch than a BMW.

Our national ass is being kicked by countries smart enough to wage business as war and fuse government with business. That’s how China went from a Communist backwater in the 1970s to a Capitalist powerhouse today.

If we want businesses to relocate here, pay them or someone else will. SC can’t possibly “grow” a Boeing, because it never had a techy culture. We DO have cheap labor, an anti-union climate, and a low cost of living. Make it cheap to bring businesses here, avoid regulation they don’t like, and SC becomes an option instead of outsourcing overseas.
Remember the clothing mills? Their ancestors were Up Nawth. (You can still see some ruins in New Jersey.) They moved where labor was cheap, then moved away to even cheaper climes. The same thing logically happens with other industry, so if we want to obtain and retain business that means paying to do that.

By: weighing in

weighing in — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:05:27 +0000

Working Tommy C,

I bet if you were willing to make the same guarantees that Boeing must meet to activate the incentives, even on your level of business, I bet the state or one of its economic development arms would be willing to help you too in some form or fashion

By: WorkingTommyC

WorkingTommyC — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:34:45 +0000

It’s yet more fascism sponsored by our elite good ol’ boys corrupting the statehouse.

Whether jobs are created or not, in principle, we should ALL be against such corporate welfare/corporatism.

This is definitely NOT “equality under the law”? Will the legislature be as generous with our taxes to give the same benefits to every other business in the state?

I work for a South Carolina home grown, family-owned business. It has done remarkably well, but how much better would OUR bottom line be if we got, per person employed, the same benefits over the next several years (c.$12 million) for doing the same thing we’ve been doing all along?

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:17:42 +0000

What a crock! Jeez is right; Boeing is this generations BMW. This release has shot the SCPC’s credibility down to the level of Sanford.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:21:06 +0000

This Boeing stuff may be over my head, but one thing is not: SC sure as hell has lost lots of jobs since the stimulus bill started, and is continuing to do so.

If you count the people that have stopped looking for work, the numbers are in SC are astounding.

By: marvin

marvin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:30:20 +0000

According to SCPC, we’ve lost 80,000 jobs in the last year, some since the stimulus money started coming in. Are those numbers wrong, McFailure? Also, what jobs have been created (private sector, not government) from stimulus? Not saying you’re wrong — I’d just like to know what the numbers actually are and where to find them.

By: Mapquest

Mapquest — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:28:40 +0000

Ashley Landess is a f’ing idiot.

By: Jeez

Jeez — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:30:47 +0000

You people are crazy. With this thinking BMW would have never considered South Carolina.

By: McFailure

McFailure — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:38:55 +0000

SCPC: You said the stimulus would cost SC some 15,000ish jobs. Hows that looking for you? Last I checked no jobs had been lost in SC, in fact, jobs have been created.

This prediction of yours will no doubt fail you as well. Good try though, keep your chin up. One day you will regain relevancy within the debate.