Re: City Eyes $7 million Taxpayer Dollars to Continental Resources
Originally Posted by
MikeOKC
Handouts are handouts. We were talking about Pat Buchanan in another thread here recently. Pat thinks that you put all welfare types in the same basket - and I agree. The same arguments for incentives to corporations are used by 'welfare rights' groups. Does Hamm really need the $7 million dollars? The answer is, obviously, no. But, just like with minority groups, welfare culture, etc. there comes a sense of entitlement and we perpetuate a culture of dependence by continuing to hand over taxpayer dollars to corporations who have no right to continued welfare. Do we blame Continental? Not nearly as much as you blame cities, states and the federal government for creating this monster.
This kind of crap angers me so much that I'll have to stay away from here for awhile. I can't stomach to read all the excuses so many use to handover money to corporations just because "that's what we do" and "everybody does it"....you'd think we were listening to Al Sharpton defend his homeboys culture of dependence. Where are the patriots? Where are the guts? It all makes me sick.
Everyone thinks their entitled. Like I said, I'll have to stay away. My blood pressure can't take reading the reasons why this will be okay because fill-in-the-blank.
If this situation angers you, then you must really hate Texas. They throw money all over the place to lure companies. If Oklahoma City were to bow out providing incentives and not complete with other cities, then we will be back where we were in the late 1980s. Which do you prefer?
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