State Rep. Kevin Cameron speaks against forcing prevailing (union) wages laws on enterprise zones. The Chair disagrees and says that companies that do not pay such wages should "go somewhere else"
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On April 24, the House Business and Labor Committee debated HB 2429-the bill forcing businesses operating under Oregon’s enterprise zone program to pay inflated “prevailing” wages on privately-financed projects. Currently, the state’s “Little Davis Bacon Act” applies primarily to public projects under government contract. The enterprise zone program provides incentives to businesses that operate and expand in economically-distressed communities.
Republicans share the concerns of Oregon’s chambers of commerce and businesses that this bill could harm the state’s ability to attract investment and create and retain jobs. In this clip, Rep. Kevin Cameron (R-Salem) warned that HB 2429 would send the message that Oregon is closed for business. In response, the Democratic Chair of the committee suggested that if businesses don’t pay the inflated wages, they can “go somewhere else.”
It's emotion over reason. People don't realize that the law of supply and demand is similar to the law of gravity-supply will always follow demand, and at the high cost of doing business in Oregon, there is no demand.
Oregon perienially has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, currently some 50% greater. It's because of the minimum wage and unions. Rather than trying to stop competition, our leadership should be trying to foster skill building and capital investment. Our leaders chase after windmill makers while allowing our children to get less and less education from a rotten unionized public school system. Our state is in decline because of democrat party dominance and republicans-in-name-only.
It gets no better at the federal level, with jive talking Obama giving $8 billion to a hedge fund to buy a few more months for Chrysler. This was nothing but a union payoff.
God help us over come the decrepit governance coming from our current band of union elected government officials.
Well, I think that the Chair has some good points. Big Business needs to pay, and pay big, to do business in Oregon.
Just like the state employees union... hey, if you want more PERS perks, more state union jobs, more whatever, well then, you better talk to my campaign manager, you hear me? Payola speaks and I am listening. Pay up, Pay up big, or get the heck outta town!
This aligns with the Governor's past campaign to attract businesses to Oregon.
He hobbled Oregon by omitting any and all potential employers who were not Green.
By only courting green companies during his entire tenure as Governor,
Kulongoski reduced dramatically the pool of potential candidates for relocating to or starting up in Oregon.
What a lame brain approach that has been. I mean the left only wants politically correct jobs for Oregon?
Now that's just great.
OK so all you families out there across Oregon who might want a job or a better job, the Governor and the liberals are looking out for you.
Leaving you jobless until a green job shows up is for your own good.
Now thank them and get back to working on their next campaigns.
I have always wondered ,being of Slavic descent myself, there are so many jokes about "dumb Polocks". Then it dawned on me, it only takes one Kulongoski to give a bunch of GOOD people a bad reputation !
Another Jerry @ #3 seems to be a victim of the government run madrassas where logic, analytical thinking and history are supplanted by leftist derived big government fantasy and strident corporate hateism. Obviously the chair was taught in the same places.
So far (but that could change in the Obama years) nobody has to do business in Oregon, being free to ply their trade in any other state or country they wish. And with high labor costs compared to neighboring states, they will not. It's just simple logic. "Big business" (or any business for that matter) doesn't have to pay Jer and they won't. The chair is playing with a blank hand of cards thinking he's got four of a kind.
But like so many politicos, they don't care because they don't have to. They're employed. They're making the mortgage. Let those that need jobs eat cake. Just think, Oregon is doing the same thing that Michigan did not to long ago and look at them now. Businesses have fled along with those employables that can and Detroit is a battlefield, rapidly reverting back to prairie.
It gets no better at the federal level, with jive talking Obama giving $8 billion to a hedge fund to buy a few more months for Chrysler. This was nothing but a union payoff.
God help us over come the decrepit governance coming from our current band of union elected government officials.
Just like the state employees union... hey, if you want more PERS perks, more state union jobs, more whatever, well then, you better talk to my campaign manager, you hear me? Payola speaks and I am listening. Pay up, Pay up big, or get the heck outta town!
He hobbled Oregon by omitting any and all potential employers who were not Green.
By only courting green companies during his entire tenure as Governor,
Kulongoski reduced dramatically the pool of potential candidates for relocating to or starting up in Oregon.
What a lame brain approach that has been. I mean the left only wants politically correct jobs for Oregon?
Now that's just great.
OK so all you families out there across Oregon who might want a job or a better job, the Governor and the liberals are looking out for you.
Leaving you jobless until a green job shows up is for your own good.
Now thank them and get back to working on their next campaigns.
So far (but that could change in the Obama years) nobody has to do business in Oregon, being free to ply their trade in any other state or country they wish. And with high labor costs compared to neighboring states, they will not. It's just simple logic. "Big business" (or any business for that matter) doesn't have to pay Jer and they won't. The chair is playing with a blank hand of cards thinking he's got four of a kind.
But like so many politicos, they don't care because they don't have to. They're employed. They're making the mortgage. Let those that need jobs eat cake. Just think, Oregon is doing the same thing that Michigan did not to long ago and look at them now. Businesses have fled along with those employables that can and Detroit is a battlefield, rapidly reverting back to prairie.
Not a pretty picture.