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NY is "shooting" themselves in the foot
NY is "shooting" themselves in the foot with their anti business attitude, so much so that they are now realizing the impact and desperate to encourage business to move in, offering tax free business districts for new start ups. Funny watching NY buy add space on Fox Network attempting to get businesses interested in NY... I would beg to leave NY.
Sounds like Remington agrees with the governor."Extreme conservatives” who are “right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay,” have “no place in the state of New York.”
Remington and its workers have been key voices in protests against the NY Safe Act, a series of stricter gun laws signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo 13 months ago. Last May, the company wrote on its Facebook pay that the military contract was not a sign that Remington had been paid off to stay in New York.Still, the company made no promise to stay in Ilion."Remington will not run or abandon its loyal and hard working 1,300 employees without considerable thought and deliberation," the company wrote last May.The new plant in Huntsville would be about half the size as the one in Ilion. Production would not begin before 2015.
NY may get it yet. There are many, especially upstaters, who are really upset with the new law. I wouldn't be too surprised to see some recall elections happening there very soon.
Quote from: pianoman9701 on February 17, 2014, 07:13:15 AMNY may get it yet. There are many, especially upstaters, who are really upset with the new law. I wouldn't be too surprised to see some recall elections happening there very soon.The pattern in all states is the same: populated cities drive the state's politics, and they are liberal voters. NY in NY, Seattle in WA, Portland in OR, San Fran in CA, Missoula in MT, Denver in CO, and so forth. It has been said that the only voters that matter in Washington can all be seen from the top of the Space Needle.Universities are in the urban centers, and that it part of it. Most governmental jobs are in urban centers. Mostly I think that somehow people lose a sense of personal responsibility: police will protect me, there are food banks and shelters if I need help, etc. Who needs guns or hunting?
OXY is moving their HQ to Houston Texas from Los Angeles after a century in California. They announced their intention to spin off California operations and focus on their highly productive west Texas Permian Basin holdings in a state that welcomes shale production because Black Gold Texas Tea has propelled Texas into the number one state for oil and gas production. Which means high paying good jobs (over a half million and growing in the past five years), and pumped billions of dollars into our economy and state budget.. . . America is on the verge of oil and gas energy independence. Something we were told could never happen.
