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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (162362)2/27/2003 3:25:06 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1576282
 
I do recall the State actively destroying perfectly good tax paying industries in favor of "green" high tech industries. Namely forest and fish products. My entire family (on dad's side) living in Astoria had their fishing industry destroyed by regulations in the 80's. They all took jobs in Alaska as the fishing industry in Oregon was taken apart.

Eric, its true those businesses were hurt by regulations but they were also dying a slow death. A couple of years ago I read a study comparing OR vs WA state and how OR had done many more right things over the prior twenty years than WA state.

One of the things pointed out in the study was the fact that forestry and fishing were dying industries as far back as the 60s for a number of different reasons unrelated to gov't regulations. Furthermore, OR's state economy was in the toilet. Unemployment in the early 80s hovered between 10-11%. Tech was one of the ways OR got out of its economic mess.

With forestry now, most construction lumber comes from the South........from tree farms where the pine grows much faster than the NW. So how many jobs would it provide in OR now. As for fishing, I think the dams have done more to kill off the salmon than anything else. I am not proposing knocking down the dams but you know what I mean.

So then you get this Sizemore character and he starts passing iniative after initiative restricting taxes.......during good times......and now in bad times, the current results are not surprising.

ted
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