Tuesday, April 20, 2010

But, of course, the natives would not want a bunch of furriners bringing their jobs and money to Camden, now would they?!

http://savannahnow.com/news/2010-04-20/new-effingham-company-employ-600
Posted by Jay Moreno at 7:52 AM

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you will find with a quick search that we did in fact have discussion with that company some years back. The concessions they required to move in are far from what we have been willing to give other firms. No prperty tax for 25 years is just one of the many.

April 20, 2010 at 9:19 AM
Jay Moreno said...

Why don't you do the "quick search" then give us a link to your supporting article?

Well, let's see: the unions stuck to either guns and now we have no paper mill; the Governor of Georgia stuck to his guns and we will not get a mega-mall; now all of you die-hard purists will stick to your guns and we will lose bids for industry evey time to competing cities.

Some day, when the only remaining inhabitants of Camden are well-heeled retirees and active-duty Navy, you
die hards in double wides over in the Charlton County woods willl at least have the pride of knowing that you stuck to your guns.

April 20, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Anonymous said...

If ANY of the dumbasses in Camden could actually negotiate a deal that brings these type of high wage earnings I believe the people would support this 100%.

EFACEC facts
-- Annual revenues of more than $1.3 billion
-- EFACEC Rincon is now the county's third largest employer, according to EFACEC officials.
-- Rincon plant site is more than 55 acres
-- Manufacturing area for Phase 1 is 225,900 square feet with 32,200 square feet for office space. Phase 2 will add 292,000 square feet of manufacturing space.
-- 36 companies worked on plant construction.
-- Total volume of concrete used: 17,360 m?
-- Concrete thickness in heavy-load areas: 24 inches
-- A net state impact of $23.75 million and an additional Effingham County impact of $39 million by 2017, according to figures from the Georgia Department of Economic Development's Global Commerce Division.
-- More than 1,500 workers, including skilled assembly workers, electrical engineering specialists and suppliers, will make an impact on the state and regional economy in the coming decade, state officials report.

April 20, 2010 at 1:23 PM
Anonymous said...

How did the unions close the paper mills???

April 20, 2010 at 2:07 PM
JROT said...

JROT! Jays right on target on this one! Yup we got em on that one! They ain't gettin by with paying no property tax. Oh, they ain't paying none now cause they did not move here? Well, makes no difference whether they are here or not. Just ain't right to not have them pay. I don't care if they did go someplace else. Ain't right neither to collect SPLOST and other county taxes from the workers that might have come in. Just aint right for um not to pay property taxes for 25 years. We don't just stick to our guns - we stick darn hard to our big guns.....Just aint right to give anyone those incentives. We'll just wait for the government to pay for everything like they did when the base came here. Built great schools and such with all the impact money. Darn surprised though that it ran out and now we have to pay for all the operating costs. But it still aint right to give someone a break on the property tax. The government will come through. Think we are next in line for some type of stimulus...... to get us going. It worked in California and New York and New Jersey; no reason to expect it won't work here.

April 20, 2010 at 4:25 PM
Jay Moreno said...

By Jove, I think you've got ti! So that's what the Bubbas are holdin' out for!

April 20, 2010 at 6:08 PM
Jay Moreno said...

So, let me get this straight: in the entire history of Gilman - and especially the years immediately
before the sale to Durango - that management said to the unions "If we don't get concessions from you guys, we may go out of business?"

Is that your story?

April 20, 2010 at 6:11 PM

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