Posted on 07/03/2012 2:31:40 PM PDT by BO Stinkss
Alabama is getting a new high-tech aircraft factory and 1,000 high-wage jobs, despite warnings from progressive groups that the state’s immigration reform would frighten away investors.
“The naysayers were hoping it would,” said state Rep. Mike Ball. But “the immigration law doesn’t make any difference to the foreign companies — if they’re legal, they know they’re welcome, and we have a competitive environment where they can make a profit,” said Ball, a former police detective.
“More jobs for sweet home Alabama,” said Chuck Ellis, a councilman in the city of Albertville.
“Once again the state of Alabama has taken the ‘but’ out of the liberals’ [warning] — ‘So you’ve got your immigration reform law, BUT now industry will go to other states to do their business,’” he wrote.
The aircraft factory was announced July 2 by Airbus, which is Europe’s largest aircraft maker and the primary worldwide rival to Boeing. Other states competed against Alabama for the factory, partly by offering state aid.
The 1,000 Airbus employees will assemble four A-320 jets a month by 2017 and will support many additional jobs in the state, whose unemployment rate has fallen faster since 2009 than nearly any other state in the country. The state’s drop is only outdone by Michigan, which benefited from huge federal subsidies for the auto industry.
The Airbus decision was a defeat for progressive groups and ethnic lobbies, who had urged companies to boycott the state until it abandons its effective immigration-reform law that curbs employment of illegal immigrants.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
In all fairness, the South Carolina plant is up and running.
In case you hadn’t seen it
You betcha. They be bad.
Re your post 18, thanks for your comments. It is only because of personal circumstances that I am not back there in my “home territory,” if you will.
Right now, I live in Virginia, which, because of the infestation of liberal government workers and Beltway Bandits in the northern part of the State, is slowly creeping over to the Dark Side. Heck, George Allen may not be the next senator! Before, having secured the Republican nomination, he would be a shoo-in. But now...
Yes, you have the four seasons (as do I) but what makes it nice in Bama is that winter there is not brutal as it is in many states. I always thought of it as “pleasant.”
All in all, it’s a great place to live. Be thankful.
I heartily agree. Moved here in ‘93, first to Montgomery then further south except for a short stint in Panama city Beach. In many ways, Alabama is a great place to live.
>>>Just how in the world can you expect to build hi tech airplanes without illegal aliens?<<<
And without union stewards spitting and p-—ing in the corners at $250,000 per annum?
I live near Huntsville as well...a suburb with the same county name. :)
I live near Huntsville as well...a suburb with the same county name. :)
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