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Myfingershurt 10-13-2020 05:41 AM


Originally Posted by Thor (Post 3144360)
Was that first citizen’s quote “we need stability, and if you can’t offer stability we don’t need you here”. I guess Boeing got the message.

I think he meant to say stability but if my ears weren’t deceiving me he made up a new word pronounced stabability. And he said it twice. So...i dunno.

SaintNick 10-13-2020 06:12 AM


Originally Posted by Myfingershurt (Post 3144499)
I think he meant to say stability but if my ears weren’t deceiving me he made up a new word pronounced stabability. And he said it twice. So...i dunno.

he for sure said stateability. He was meaning stability of course. But wanting to sound smart on a tv interview makes people say stupid stuff. I’m sure I would

Myfingershurt 10-13-2020 06:18 AM


Originally Posted by SaintNick (Post 3144516)
he for sure said stateability. He was meaning stability of course. But wanting to sound smart on a tv interview makes people say stupid stuff. I’m sure I would

way to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Qotsaautopilot 10-13-2020 06:41 AM


Originally Posted by Hedley (Post 3144478)
Part of the move is probably due to the Seattle business/political culture. South Carolina is probably more business friendly, but it is also a right to work state and Boeing has a long history of labor issues and strikes in Seattle.

Yep. More business friendly and a right to work state. That always means lower wages. Businesses kind of like those things. Can’t blame them but further erosion of the middle class. We all cannot be CEOs for a living.

Hedley 10-13-2020 07:53 AM


Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot (Post 3144538)
Yep. More business friendly and a right to work state. That always means lower wages. Businesses kind of like those things. Can’t blame them but further erosion of the middle class. We all cannot be CEOs for a living.

It’s not the erosion of the middle class, it is a shift in the location of the middle class. Moving to SC will provide good jobs there. Even if the wages are slightly lower, the lower cost of living will compensate for that and the middle class in SC will thrive as the result of thousands of new jobs, as well as benefit from living in a state with increasing tax revenues. Government (federal, state, and municipal included) can’t raise corporate taxes and the cost of doing business and expect businesses want to remain in that environment. To use a marriage analogy, you can’t treat your wife like garbage and expect her to smile and put out. If you keep treating her bad, she will go somewhere else, never to return.

jumppilot 10-13-2020 07:57 AM


Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot (Post 3144538)
Yep. More business friendly and a right to work state. That always means lower wages. Businesses kind of like those things. Can’t blame them but further erosion of the middle class. We all cannot be CEOs for a living.

Seattle is also a lot more crowded than it was in decades past, which happened everywhere of course, but due to geography there isn’t much land. Add the far left turn the politics have taken there, Seattle isn’t the lumber, fishing, and airplane town it used to be.

Personally, I’d rather live in SC if I was in a workers shoes. Much more affordable. Your money goes a lot further than in Seattle, allowing those people to have a shot at building wealth.

BobZ 10-13-2020 08:34 AM


Originally Posted by Hedley (Post 3144574)
It’s not the erosion of the middle class, it is a shift in the location of the middle class. Moving to SC will provide good jobs there. Even if the wages are slightly lower, the lower cost of living will compensate for that and the middle class in SC will thrive as the result of thousands of new jobs, as well as benefit from living in a state with increasing tax revenues. Government (federal, state, and municipal included) can’t raise corporate taxes and the cost of doing business and expect businesses want to remain in that environment. To use a marriage analogy, you can’t treat your wife like garbage and expect her to smile and put out. If you keep treating her bad, she will go somewhere else, never to return.

And her leaving. Is a bad thing?

Idk about that theory....seems a lot of women get the crap beat out of them on a regular basis.....and keep coming back for more....because they know the guy 'loves' them.

Not to mention the 'Pimpin aint easy' dysfunction. 😆

Back2future 10-13-2020 08:48 AM

It just warms my heart to see all the schadenfreude here. Who wouldn't celebrate the loss of good unionized jobs to a right to work state because it owns the libs?

BobbyLeeSwagger 10-13-2020 08:58 AM


Originally Posted by butthert (Post 3144460)
That is some serious spin. CNN would be proud
However we all know it’s the leadership of that state that is causing the mass exodus. The same style leadership that is causing a UHaul shortage in California and New York as well.

#ChasnotChaz

So true, recently left Cali with family and the prices were very high and inventory very low on uhaul trucks. Had to get the truck and trailer at separate locations... They said they've been inundated with one way reservations leaving the state. When I arrived at our destination, there was no room for our truck and they had to move me to another location to drop off. Crazy

Enjoying open parks and nice people, I feel like I just came to the United States of America after leaving california lol

Hedley 10-13-2020 09:02 AM


Originally Posted by BobZ (Post 3144603)
And her leaving. Is a bad thing?

Idk about that theory....seems a lot of women get the crap beat out of them on a regular basis.....and keep coming back for more....because they know the guy 'loves' them.

Not to mention the 'Pimpin aint easy' dysfunction. 😆

Her leaving isn’t a bad thing, but when she takes the good half of your stuff with her (jobs and tax revenue in the Boeing example), you realize that you would have been better off making her want to stay by treating her well and then kicking the cat when nobody is looking.


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