4/2/2008 Must Reads: The Bison Cry for Jobs, Hyperion as Olive Drab, Wal-Mart's Pig Lipstick, and the USA and China Group Hug
Hope no one pulled any April Fools jokes on you.
The problem is, here in South Dakota living under Republican rules, every day is April Fools if you're a wage earner.
I'm just sayin'.
Here are today's Must Reads.
SOUTH DAKOTA MUST READS:
Additional resources needed for Bison
01/04/08 20:41 from Bison, SD
Additional resources needed for the Bison community to make our Horizonplan work would be more jobs. We need more businesses and opportunitiesfor our families to continue to live in this community...
01/04/08 08:53 from hyperion refinery - Google News
What Makes A Refinery Green? Chief Engineer, IL - 13 hours ago On itsWeb site, Hyperion Resources describes the proposed Hyperion EnergyCenter as a “state-of-the-art” refinery and gasification power plantthat...
What PR won’t fix
02/04/08 06:13 from BuzzMachine
No amount of PR and no number of company blogs can make a bad companylook good — or smart. Wal-Mart is the poster pig for that lipstick.Again and again, they prove themselves to be mean, greedy, and stupid...
02/04/08 03:53 from WSJ.com: Politics And Policy
Paulsonmet with his new Chinese counterpart, Vice Premier Wang Qishan, duringa visit to Beijing and the two reaffirmed their commitment to theStrategic Economic Dialogue...
The problem is, here in South Dakota living under Republican rules, every day is April Fools if you're a wage earner.
I'm just sayin'.
Here are today's Must Reads.
SOUTH DAKOTA MUST READS:
Additional resources needed for Bison
01/04/08 20:41 from Bison, SD
Additional resources needed for the Bison community to make our Horizonplan work would be more jobs. We need more businesses and opportunitiesfor our families to continue to live in this community...
- This pretty much sums up most of South Dakota. WE NEED DECENT PAYING JOBS!
01/04/08 08:53 from hyperion refinery - Google News
What Makes A Refinery Green? Chief Engineer, IL - 13 hours ago On itsWeb site, Hyperion Resources describes the proposed Hyperion EnergyCenter as a “state-of-the-art” refinery and gasification power plantthat...
- As the article notes, maybe the proposed Hyperion refinery isn't so much "green" as "olive drab."
What PR won’t fix
02/04/08 06:13 from BuzzMachine
No amount of PR and no number of company blogs can make a bad companylook good — or smart. Wal-Mart is the poster pig for that lipstick.Again and again, they prove themselves to be mean, greedy, and stupid...
- Let me pile on too. Bad Wal-Mart. Bad, bad Wal-Mart.
02/04/08 03:53 from WSJ.com: Politics And Policy
Paulsonmet with his new Chinese counterpart, Vice Premier Wang Qishan, duringa visit to Beijing and the two reaffirmed their commitment to theStrategic Economic Dialogue...
- I can imagine the talks:
- China: "USA, you keep sending us your jobs and we'll keep using prison labor, cheap wages, and dangerous ingredients to keep sending you cheap crap you don't need."
- USA: "OK. As long as Wal-Mart can keep making a fortune."
- China: "USA, you got it!"
Todd Epp
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Good lord Todd- where do you find the time? Spent an amusing morning reading through your blog. You write as if we talking over lunch.
Write on.
Carrie
The problem that Bison and many other towns have isn't pay. There are really two problems:
1 - People don't want to live there because it is far away and small.
2 - Companies don't want to locate there because THERE ARE NO WORKERS. Companies are not interested in a "build it and they will come" approach - they want to know that there is an available workforce within reasonable proximity.