We Don't Need No Stinkin' Limousines: Ask the Flatlanders

Maybe Wisconsin business leaders don't need no stinkin' limousines. Here is the headline from last Friday's Lake County News-Sun :

Lake County Partners exec laments flight of business to Wisconsin

While Milwaukee business executives are whining that the State of Wisconsin does not greet them at the airports and sports arenas with limousines paid for by the taxpayers, our neighbors to the south in Illinois are more than a bit steamed.

The Lake County News-Sun lead with this gem:

Lake County Partners President Dave Young blamed Illinois' unfriendly business climate for the flight of businesses to Wisconsin.

Prompted by the loss of a major Waukegan area business to the Kenosha area, here is what was said in comparing the Illinois and Wisconsin Governors:

"We have a governor (Blagojevich) who goes out of his way to antagonize the business community...This is a governor who does not know how to do economic development... the instability at the state level is making a number of companies consider an actual move or to consider all future expansions outside of the state."

"Unfortunately, right next door in Kenosha County, Gov. Jim Doyle is very adept at business recruitment and actually enjoys it..." (emphasis added)

As Jim Rowen noted in his post last week Milwaukee Business Leaders Meet Their Worst Enemy -Themselves,

The Journal Sentinel carries its own version of the business leaders' anti-Milwaukee complaints, wherein we learn that when our CEO's fly to China they are met at airports in escorted limousines, and are treated like potentates.

Turns out that visiting business bigwigs just love the fawning attention they receive in a Communist dictatorship.

Oh, the ironies.

Yes, the Chinese government and its tightly-controlled corporate infrastructure can provide what our business leaders are looking for: low costs.

Because China also runs on minuscule wages, crappy environmental standards, laws against unions, and other favors that can only be guaranteed in a one-party, military state.

You have to love it. Is this a great country, or what? 

Comments

[nonheroicvet]

We may need to consider the possibility that US business leaders are a bunch of whiners and that may explain our declining fortunes in the world

[Bob Keith]

Today on WTDY, talk host "Sly" suggested in not so many words that the final signs of the Apocalypse are upon us. Bowling pin manufacturing is moving from Wisconsin to China.

Limousines be damned, I am grabbing my bowling ball bag and my Packer bobble head and fleeing for my cobweb filled fallout shelter.

Do I even need to say, "some of us are really tired of our two-party paradigm buisiness and political hack ruling class, as well as their evil assitant, China."

Bob Keith
www.cooldadiomedia.com