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Tiny Nebraska Town Says No to 1,100 Jobs, Citing Way of Life
ABC News/Associated Press ^ | May 2, 2016 | Scott McFetridge

Posted on 05/02/2016 4:25:57 PM PDT by seacapn

Half-ton pickup trucks crowd the curb outside the One Horse Saloon, a neon Coors Light sign in the window and rib-eye steaks on the menu, but otherwise Nickerson, Nebraska, is nearly silent on a spring evening, with only rumbling freight trains interrupting bird songs.

Regional economic development officials thought it was the perfect spot for a chicken processing plant that would liven up the 400-person town with 1,100 jobs, more than it had ever seen. When plans leaked out, though, there was no celebration, only furious opposition that culminated in residents packing the fire hall to complain the roads couldn't handle the truck traffic, the stench from the plant would be unbearable and immigrants and out-of-towners would flood the area, overwhelming schools and changing the town's character.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: agriculture; immigration; nebraska; nickerson
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This is a really fascinating story. It feels like we're returning to an older, more populist conservatism based on preserving local values, rather than the globalist/corporatist "conservatism" which became prominent in the past couple decades.
1 posted on 05/02/2016 4:25:58 PM PDT by seacapn
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1100 jobs for illegals and they know it


2 posted on 05/02/2016 4:28:07 PM PDT by Donglalinger
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immigrants and out-of-towners would flood the area

Yep, here's the kicker. This town is just 40 miles northwest of Omaha and Omaha is full of gibsmedats and illegals.

3 posted on 05/02/2016 4:28:55 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (MAGA! Make America Great Again)
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This plant = Somali pirates working there


4 posted on 05/02/2016 4:31:36 PM PDT by Fai Mao (openly)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Any word on the town’s financial situation?


5 posted on 05/02/2016 4:31:39 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (United we stand, divided we fall. I think the establishment has divided us enough.)
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” ..... the perfect spot for a chicken processing plant .... 1,100 jobs ... “


Clearly, it would mean 1,100 Mexicans. It would ruin their town to take such a plant.


6 posted on 05/02/2016 4:31:49 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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400 people in the town. 1100 proposed jobs. Did they think the townspeople couldn’t do the math?


7 posted on 05/02/2016 4:34:10 PM PDT by Ellendra (Those who kill without reason cannot be reasoned with.)
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Some things are more important than money.


8 posted on 05/02/2016 4:34:25 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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I don’t blame them one bit.


9 posted on 05/02/2016 4:35:08 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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They don’t want the Somalis. Nor do the Kenyans.


10 posted on 05/02/2016 4:35:25 PM PDT by steve8714 (OK, it's over.)
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BINGO — You nailed it. The processing plant would result in a massive inflow of illegals!


11 posted on 05/02/2016 4:35:26 PM PDT by House Atreides (TRUMP or CRUZ --- The 1st one to get to 1237 gets the Nomination Brass Ring...PERIOD)
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I would never trust any company that wants to put a facility that employs 1,100 people in a town with only 400 residents. The labor economics alone make this a very questionable decision.


12 posted on 05/02/2016 4:36:03 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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Tell me about it.


13 posted on 05/02/2016 4:37:39 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (www.greenhornshooting.com - Professional handgun training.)
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You have to love it.


14 posted on 05/02/2016 4:38:12 PM PDT by oldsaw (Tested at 70k discharges w/o loss of recharge ability)
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Somalis and messicans would over-run the town. then come the somali gangs and the messican gangs fighting for control.

My hat is off to these people for wanting to maintain the status quo.


15 posted on 05/02/2016 4:39:06 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (www.greenhornshooting.com - Professional handgun training.)
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Let me guess, in addition to bringing in the illegals, the company would probably want the town to pay for all sorts of infrastructure to accommodate for the new plant and that certainly would be no guarantee against the company pulling up stakes and shutting down the whole thing in five or ten years?


16 posted on 05/02/2016 4:40:52 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
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I’m waiting for the media to call them a bunch of racists.


17 posted on 05/02/2016 4:40:54 PM PDT by Husker24
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Beck & Cruz will be there to welcome the illegals with gift baskets and soccer balls.


18 posted on 05/02/2016 4:43:14 PM PDT by indcons (Lurker mode mostly)
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There’s been a bad tendency of processors to build a packing plant in a town with the promise of jobs, then bring in illegal aliens to fill them for less than the locals would work for.
They are not wrong for doing this.


19 posted on 05/02/2016 4:44:13 PM PDT by tbw2
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zactly...there will be mescins all over that town.


20 posted on 05/02/2016 4:45:01 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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