Maybe it’s all good for the members of the cabal but if you look at it from the perspective of the workers that will be fired as a result of the closures announced in El Paso in the last year things don’t look so good.
Leviton 400 jobs
Boeing 160 jobs
Hoover 450 jobs
State Farm 550 jobs
Xerox 490 jobs
Some might say that relief is on the way but according to one of our local newspapers industrial real estate activity has been negative so far this year.
Our new mayor has been saying that economic development, getting new jobs in El Paso, is a higher priority to him than quality of life issues.
I could not possibly agree more with him. The other local politicians need to understand that without jobs we are in real trouble. This last city council had the wrong priorities.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Brutus,
I’m sure all those jobs left El Paso and relocated to cities with better quality of life assets.
What we deserve…. Is a smarter blogger.
ORA
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ORA,
As a regular reader of this blog, I’m curious what your problems are with El Paso Speak. It sounded like your thinking is consistent with that of Brutus, until I got to the “smarter blogger” part. Seems to me this blog is intended to be a dialogue or open forum rather than a monologue, so share your wisdom with the rest of us. Seriously.
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I don’t know if it’s ever been proven that businesses chose not to move to El Paso because of “quality of life” issues. Some former city council members and their supporters bat that term around a lot trying to explain why they failed to help El Paso progress economically. Jobs are what drives quality of life, not the other way around. Spending public money to make El Paso look like a prosperous city does not make El Paso a prosperous city.
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Meanwhile our new Borderplex Alliance boss, who has been on the job just a few months, is bragging to the media about how he will soon be jetting off to Paris, France to tell European countries how to work together to create jobs. It sounds like an expense paid European vacation and self promotion to some of us. Shouldn’t we actually produce some results before acting like we’re the experts?
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Thank God the voters got it right at the local level. Nationally we re-elected a president who is clueless on creating jobs…….he, himself has never created or held a real job. The challenge for us locally is to figure out how to create jobs despite federal headwinds like Obamacare, high corporate taxes, pathetic energy policies, and uncertain international traderelations. We certainly have our work cut out for us.
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ORA, it comes down to bottom line and not quality of life. remember acer left when the tax rebates ran out and so did thompson.
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