Terre Haute: We're in the Middle

Mar 02, 2007 16:02

Economic competitiveness does weird things to people's brains. We already know that it makes them offer rich corporations tax breaks and other perks that can sometimes come to half a million dollars per job created, with no requirement that the jobs be well-paying or that local people get hired for them or even that the company pay that money back ( Read more... )

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Taking the higher ground chezjake March 3 2007, 03:32:05 UTC
Terre Haute's claims are strangely reminiscent (and similarly debunked) of those made by Kenneth Ham, who is building a creationist museum in northern Kentucky, just across the river from Cincinnati.

http://stevereuland.blogspot.com/2007/01/they-suck-at-geography-too.html

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Re: Taking the higher ground miriamjoyce March 3 2007, 19:13:13 UTC
Wow. That's really weird. I wonder if the creationists pulled their data from THEDC? Or if THEDC is run by creationists? ;>

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