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To: hdl who wrote (36258)	7/18/2003 2:54:30 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

hdl, Re: if the job remains 30 years or more- Yesterday, Boeing announced it would lay off another 5,000 workers, mostly in the Puget Sound region. As you might recall, 30 years ago some wags placed a billboard on I-5 in Seattle saying "Last One Out, Turn Off the Lights". So your pollyannish optimism about the 7E7 project will have a 30 year life is, IMO, pretty far-fetched. ***** Here's another example of the idiocy of tax jurisdictions giving away the commons to the corporados. My brother-in-law lives in DuPage County, near Dekalb, IL. There were two tax advantaged business moves there a couple of years ago. One car dealership relocated to the county, after having been given tax credits, and a manufacturing operation moved from the county to the city, again getting a tax rebate. The net result was no new employment, no new income to the region, over all, and two taxing jurisdictions subsidizing the corporations, creating the necessity to increase property tax charges to all private citizen of the region. This is simply a swindle of the public by some very clever, but unscrupulous and uncaring corporate shysters. Corporations seem to have morphed, since their ascendency to the heights of power, into malevolent and anti-democratic forces that are grossly negligent about their "corporate citizen" responsibilities to the very communities that make their existence possible. Gross negligence has become the norm for corporate America, and with the introduction of WTO, there seems to be the possibility that this cancer is going to be a world wide plague. ********* Here's an upcoming crisis that corporations hope to take advantage of: citizen.org People are already dying because of corporate dominance and greed in the privatization of water, and the corruption of the World Bank and the IMF.