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[mindmetoo]

How embarrassing for Derrek...

[desultude]

[Moldy Rutabaga]

[dulouz]

There are other places in the US besides the deep South. It looks like they intentionally picked one dismal place for the sole reason of dismissing the entire country just to draw away attention from the no healthcare cost issue in Canada and then picked Canada where labor has always been cheaper.

[guangho]

They picked the south because that is the one place in America where 1) Unions are dead, 2) the economy is so hard up the locals will take most any job and 3) the governments are such corporate whores they will do anything for a corporate entity.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

[Derrek]

[endofthewor1d]

[jajdude]

I know it's sad, but in a way it is actually nice to be reminded that poverty and ignorance exist in the wealthiest nations too.


I think many Asians and other people would be dumbfounded to discover that there are so many Americans, Canadians, Germans, Japanese, etc... millions of people in the richest countries, that is, just getting by and struggling to make ends meet, to eat and live.

[Gopher]

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[mithridates]

Oh no, not those three. It's not true. Only #2. The others are in small numbers.

[Derrek]

Back to the original topic here, when a large company chooses one area over another, it often has more to do with local tax breaks and incentives. This is exactly what is going on.

Check out this line: In addition to lower training costs, Canadian workers are also $4 to $5 cheaper to employ partly thanks to the taxpayer-funded health-care system in Canada, said federal Industry Minister David Emmerson.

I've seen companies WANT to locate to a certain area, not be allowed the massive/crazy tax breaks and economic incentives they demand, then see them lash out in the local press -- or the press in the other city -- sort of like a 3 year-old crying that they didn't get the sucker they wanted from mom at the grocery store.

More likely than anything, this company couldn't get the breaks they demanded from the US area they wanted to locate in. They went with another option.

Also, look at the area and WHAT they are trying to employ. In the deep south, they're probably trying to employ Mexicans and people who would work for next-to-nothing. They need pictures to show the non-English speaking crowd. I'm sorry, but the dumbest of the dumb English-speaking Southern person is not as stupid as this add makes it seem.

Also, why wouldn't Honda or Nissan relocate elsewhere in the USA where the education level is higher? Again, it's down to money and incentives. No American location would probably give them the crazy tax breaks/etc. they are asking for. A Canadian city would.

Look at how many car companies have set up shop in Mexico. Do you see them complaining about having to show photos to the locals there, because they don't speak English? If this were really the case, they wouldn't be there, would they?

This story is all about money and economic breaks and how much they have to pay workers. The pot-shot at Southern intelligence is EXACTLY what I said above: Nissan and Honda not getting the sucker from mom at the grocery store, and crying about it.

[Beej]

So educated Canadian workers are payed 5 less an hour than illiterate workers from the States. That's not exactly something Cananda should be proud of.

[Gord]

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