LET THE JOKES WRITE THEMSELVES …
|| By FITSNEWS || S.C. governor Nikki Haley is at an “undisclosed location” working on a big “economic development” deal for the state … meaning your tax dollars are about to be doled out like candy to some major multi-national corporation.
Assuming she’s “successful.”
Word on the street is Haley is in Whitley – a suburb of the Coventry metropolitan borough of the United Kingdom. What’s she (reportedly) doing there? Making the Palmetto State’s pitch to land a new Land Rover plant at the Jaguar Land Rover world headquarters.
South Carolina is reportedly in competition with Georgia and North Carolina for the rumored facility … pitching a site in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
“(Jaguar) is indeed looking at North America as a location for another plant,” Indian businessman Ratan Tata told the South Carolina Automotive Summit last week. “Where they locate that plant, in which country or which state they locate, is something they will need to decide.”
Tata is chairman emeritus of Tata Motors, which acquired Jaguar from Ford in 2008. The company had revenues of nearly $40 billion during its last fiscal year – meaning it doesn’t need any taxpayer subsidies in the event it wishes to open a new manufacturing facility.
47 comments
What red blooded American male wouldn’t consider buying a car named “Ta Ta”?
I wonder how much the spinning tassle option runs.
I’ll take mine in “veiny purple” please.
There is a foto in my archives of the sports car with the breasts– too bad ya’ can’t see it…..
We don’t need no stinking jobs in SC. Tell all them foreign companies, BMW, Michelin, etc.to get the hell out of here. We are going back to home grown cotton and tobacco.
“We don’t need no stinking jobs in SC. ”
What a ridiculous suggestion that handing out taxpayer money is required to get big/foreign companies to come here.
Tax breaks could be substantial if done right instead of redistributing wealth from poor & middle class to corporations.
In your astute observations of the siting of major plant investments by large corporations, do incentives in forms similar to those provided by SC for BMW, Boeing, etc. influence where corporations locate their plants? Yes or no?
Its one of three things: (1) dont wanna do ANYTHING with POTUS visit to Columbia…probably will ruin her NATIONAL ambitions (2) “operation Lost Trust 2.0” is underway (3) Stephen Goldfinch is in trouble somewhere and Trikki Nikki rushed out to “vouch” for the poor old bugger with abundant “Christian values”
…..or need to spend some of that money from the travel expense account….whatever the reasons are….jobs are not coming to SC..that’s sure. I have seen more professional friends, church friends, neighbors and strangers lose their jobs in the last 2 years and their lives destroyed. Where are the jobs?
Where are the jobs?
SC Jobs as of December 2014 ———– 2,058,657
Haley took office January 2011 ——–
Number of new jobs since taking office — 117,071
Column 2 of table at link:
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASST450000000000003
Well done. I don’t like it, but well done.
SC Population in 2010: 4,625,364
SC Population in 2014: 4,832,482
Net jobs less population increase(though in fairness, not all are of working age): -90,000 or so
SC Civilian non institutional population 16+, This includes 16, 17 year olds, college students, house wives, disabled and retirees.
Dec 2014 —- 3,770,426
Jan 2011 —
Net Gain —– 174,900
If you look at Total labor force (workers and job searchers)
Dec 2014 —- 2,202,017
Jan 2011 —
Net Gain —– 31,862 in workforce
117,071 new jobs. 85,209 more jobs than gain in the work force.
The national economy SUCKS. And it has since Barack Obama took office. When you have NO ENERGY policy, except to kill coal and let oil prices skyrocket by discouraging production…EVERYBODY pays more to do business…and businesses make less. It sinks everybody.
Therefore you have to lay off workers, and decrease pay-hike schedules.
It’s why salaries are way down, 20 million more are on food stamps, and welfare payments are at record numbers. 92 million don’t have jobs, and many that do are severely under-employed.
Not to mention the price of Obamacare and inflation for groceries and the tax increases.
Everything Obama and the Democrats touch is a disaster. And it will not turn until they are out of power.
You SUCK, too.
You’re a liberal…I’m sure you ALWAYS think the TRUTH sucks…
Too complicated. … Economy sucks, Obama’s fault. Abolish the IRS.
Oh Bummer.
I bet George goes all out on this one. Hey, maybe she’s actually negotiating on behalf of Georgia. Happened in the past.
If they build the plant in Jasper, Hampton or Allendale, they will need Savannah’s harbor deepened.
Maybe the company will buy out SC State. Centrally located, near interstate and harbor, and classrooms for training capable workers, and no union.
Dude, they’d need the educated labor pool deepened.
You do know those counties vote almost EXCLUSIVELY Democrat…so you’re actually insulting the people, based on their ignorance, who vote w/ you…
I make my observations regardless of Party.
IOW: You play the Dumb@$$ when reality is too painful to face. LMAO…
Shifty likes ta-tas…..
In California they manufacture those. In South Carolina we grow them.
A woman had enormous breasts and each time she met a man,
she’d heave her bosom. He’d heave it back! Ashamed of her gigantic bosom, the woman went to Halmar the Faith Healer.
He studied her for a while and said that faith could move
mountains. She paid him a large sum of money and he started to pray. For hours he prayed, and, lo and behold, her bosom grew smaller. Her breasts became beautiful, but now she has
two giant lumps on her ass!
Just saw a black SUV with S.C. tags headed up to the Appalachian Trail in Virginia.
Let the cliches and weak-minded dolts vomit up the same old bilge…
She has actually opened herself up to criticism w/ this gas tax leftwing-road-scare idiocy….But you’re too busy w/ you head up your @$$…to be taken seriously….
It’s why Democrats get your @$$#$ handed to you again and again in SC….you’re not smart enough to come up w/ an effective strategy..and you are even more wrong – and corrupt – than any Republican, no matter how wrong they are…
Wait. She’s at an undisclosed location – where’s Wil?
Not with her. Never has been and never will be.
Jaguar Landrover
Directions
Car Factory, Address: Abbey Road, Whitley, Coventry CV3 4LF, United Kingdom
“Coventry took a hell of a beating during the Blitz of WWII.”
Rolls Royce aircraft engine factory wasn’t it?
“Once in every man’s life, He must have a twelve cylinder automobile.” – Malcome Forbes.
Appalachian Trail, maybe?
http://www.autonews.com/article/20150224/OEM01/150229923/jaguar-land-rover-is-indeed-looking-at-n.a.-plant-tata-says
Who gives a shit? The real question is, “Are we going to see pics of red dots, and licking toes”? Like last time.
Most of the Boeing jobs went to people who are not even from South Carolina. They go to people who live in other states who moved here for the lowwwwwwwwwwwwww wages ….. HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!
Just part of her transparency plan.
Not at CPAC?
I always confuse Ratan Tata with Wicker Buttcheek.
what about Riki-Tikki-Tavi?
I think it’s great. She is doing her job. Hope we succeed on this front.
Let’s refuse to pay the ransom for her. Maybe they’ll keep her.
undisclosed location my ass…. she is moored in a dinghy on the GA side of the Savannah River looking to sweeten the pot for those dam GA Crackers.
She out “hiking the trail”/its just that her staff if way better at lying about not knowing where she is than Sanford’s was.
What amazes is these people building plants in the low country, of SC. The worst education in the state is there, and they have to deal with potential hurricanes. They should build in the upstate. The land is cheaper, education is better and we have only had one hurricane in the past 200 years.
She brought a bag full of cash, so they will start building gallivanter ballers here sometime in 2017
Maybe she’s over there trading bjs for ta tas.