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Wed Feb-28-07 08:36 AM
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Mississippi all shook up about Toyota |
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Toyota will soon open an SUV plant in Tupelo, Mississippi. They picked the site over others in Arkansas and Tennessee. So the Japanese auto giant will have a cheap labor pool to build their gas guzzlers in the town which gave the world Elvis. http://www.courant.com/business/hc-toyota0228.artfeb28,0,7620627.story?coll=hc-headlines-businesshaley bar-bore was all beside his big ole self in making the announcement.
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Wed Feb-28-07 08:39 AM
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1. I guess it's horrible that Mississippeans have 2,000 more jobs... |
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Wed Feb-28-07 08:43 AM
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2. I think its great there are more jobs |
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I'm at the opposite end of the state and there is, for some reason, an intense rivalry between north and south Mississippi. This will just intensify the rivalry and it will manifest itself in the state congress.
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Wed Feb-28-07 08:51 AM
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Wed Feb-28-07 09:09 AM
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4. You would think Toyota had decided to build their new plant in |
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Mexico or China. "So the Japanese auto giant will have a cheap labor pool to build their gas guzzlers..."
Is it considered outsourcing when a foreign company decides to locate a factory in Mississippi?
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Wed Feb-28-07 09:14 AM
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5. Well it is a third world country, last I checked. |
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Wed Feb-28-07 09:18 AM
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7. Tupelo's pretty impressive. |
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I grew up about forty miles from there. Tupelo was was where you went for things you couldn't get in a small town. The local paper and the leadership are very progressive for Mississippi. It's the commercial center of northeast MS and has terrific medical facilities.
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Wed Feb-28-07 10:13 AM
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8. Mississippi probably needs the jobs and incomes as much or |
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more than other states. Last I checked it still had the lowest state per capita income. It also has the highest percentage of minorities, so hopefully this will result in a lot of minority hiring.
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Wed Feb-28-07 10:17 AM
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9. Exactly, American labor is NOT cheap |
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The restrictions and requirments and the paperwork and the legal liability - they need a lot of American lawyers to make sure they understand it all.
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Wed Feb-28-07 09:16 AM
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6. Toyota wouldn't build gas-guzzlers if there wasn't a demand for them |
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Getting rid of the demand for them is the key to getting rid of the gas-guzzlers.
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Wed Feb-28-07 10:17 AM
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10. I live by a large industrial park and the scuttlebutt for the last couple years |
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has been Toyota was going to locate a manufacturing plant here. Oh Well.
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Wed Feb-28-07 10:18 AM
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Mudbone come from Tupelo, MS? Drove 1379 miles... on a tractor. Richard Pryor, RIP.
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Wed Feb-28-07 10:52 AM
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13. Yeah, just south of one-below! |
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Richard was just the BEST.
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:21 AM
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18. Drove a tractor all the way to Peoria |
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on half a tank of gas!
Mudbone would stand around the barbecue pit and spit. That was his job.
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Wed Feb-28-07 10:19 AM
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12. Oh the confusion this must be creating for F.A.R.T. |
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Wed Feb-28-07 10:56 AM
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14. Good for Tupelo, good for Mississippi. |
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Mississippi desperately needs industry to come in. People need work, and in a lot of the towns I've been to, all the industry has gone away. This is a good thing, just like the Nissan plant in Canton (which is the area's only major industrial installation).
I heard the plant will assemble the Highlander (?) which is a smaller SUV. That's not exactly a gas-guzzler.
By the way, Haley Barbour ran for gov. on the promise of getting bidness into the state, saying "I have the connections to make it happen." I wonder what his role in this deal was.
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:03 AM
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16. Well Toyota built a plant in Georgetown, KY and it has been |
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a huge economic boom for them. The pay scale and benefits are second to none. I would say congratulations to Mississippi and wish it had happened here in my hometown. We desperately need good paying jobs with bennies. All that is available here are stockers and door greeters at Wally World.
I wish it weren't gas guzzlers, I truly do, but people need to live, eat, raise their families etc. and those vehicles ARE going to be built somewhere, I say enjoy the economic benefits while you can.
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:33 AM
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19. I have KY relatives who work or have worked at the Georgetown plant |
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You're right, it has been a HUUUUUGE boost for the KY economy. The governor at the time (Martha Lane Collins, if I recall) frankly gave away a lot of incentives/concessions to get it, but it has likely been well worth it.
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Wed Feb-28-07 10:58 AM
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15. They could have opened the plant in Canada as many |
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manufacturers are doing now, as their universal health care eliminates one big concern for any corporation considering relocation - I don't really see this as something to whine about...
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:08 AM
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17. My son and his wife lived in Iuka, Mississippi for a few |
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years until I convinced him to move to the Atlanta area. While he was in Mississippi, he had to drive every day to Alabama to earn a decent salary.
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:37 AM
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20. Damn foreign car companies with their job creation and fuel efficient cars, Damn you |
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First Hyundai moved to Alabama, then BMW to South Carolina, and now Toyota in Mississippi.
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:37 AM
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21. Did you see the promised/proposed economic incentive package? |
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Edited on Wed Feb-28-07 11:37 AM by merh
I'd build a plant here too!
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:53 AM
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22. Toyota is not the savior here: |
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:57 AM
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23. Better to build in a "right to work" state than a state like Michigan with "forced unionization" |
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Edited on Wed Feb-28-07 12:02 PM by Selatius
Isn't that right?
One of the big reasons they came to Mississippi instead of to a place with heavy manufacturing experience like Ohio or Michigan is because it is relatively easy to crush labor unions. The state helps them do so by passing "right-to-work" laws. They only pay so well because they want to discourage unionization.
To be sure, this is an economic boom for Tupelo, but if you want to thank anybody for ensuring workers are paid well, thank the unionized workers up there in the "Rust Belt" for ensuring pay isn't any lower than it is.
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