Thursday, May 27, 2010

Promise Jobs, Get Away with Murder - Symptomatic

Politicians “promising” jobs, to buy votes, is nothing new, but politicians using the promise of jobs, or the “creation” of jobs, as a sort of get out of jail free card as cover for perfidious actions once in office, is a relatively new development.

Here in Michigan, State Representative Rev. Robert Dean is using the alleged possible creation of jobs as cover for using his position of authority to grease the skids for a $10 million dollar tax credit boondoggle, which is part of a “deal” to facilitate the purchase of an old factory by a supposed film studio, Hangar42 Studios, which miraculously increased in value from $10 million dollars to $40 million in a matter of three or four weeks.  What a deal!

And as we all know, the movie industry is huge, in Hollywood, but no matter, the State of Michigan has been fantasizing for years, as is evidenced by its shining example of abject failure, economically, so what’s one more $10 million boondoggle in Michigan’s slide into destruction, and hey, maybe Hangar42 Studios can film it.

More importantly, this story is symptomatic of the disease infecting all of America.  The disease of socialism and the promotion of business based on utopian promises and government intervention rather than realities.

Lawmaker says he inquired into holdup in Hangar42 Studios $10 million tax credit because of jobs creation, not ties to owner

Posted by John Venlet on 05/27 at 06:59 AM
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