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Thread #145610   Message #3372971
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
06-Jul-12 - 05:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Google Done Good
Subject: RE: BS: Google Done Good
I said positive things here. Not about you, but about the conditions allowing the opening of the Google plant.

You apparently are a jerk who only gives credit to Presidents you like.

"Not surprised that Sawzaw gives Obama no credit for bringing the dollar down in relation to the Yuan or for the stricter enforcement of trade rules than under the previous administration. Or for constantly repeating the word "American Manufacturing" from the bully pulpit, or at least for predicting such things when he said his administration would make US manufacturing jobs a priority. "

Also Jack said this.

"Rising labor and energy costs have made manufacturing in China significantly more expensive

And more significantly, anti-worker legislation in the US has made its workforce as affordably oppressed as the inmates of a Chinese labour camp."

I was saying that if the second factor was a significant as Jack thinks then Google would have put the jobs in states with lower wages and less "burden" on employers, States more like China. You know, like Boeing and Airbus did, or BMW & Mercedes. But they put the plant in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is probably the part of the US that is LEAST like China in those respects.

Yes I agree, Google did good. But not for the cynical reasons that Jack said.