Arizona’s current governor, Jan Brewer, recently returned from China after she “led a delegation of state economic-development officials, business leaders and others whose trip included stops in Beijing and Shanghai. The trip's purpose was to make contacts intended to strengthen Arizona exports to China and promote Chinese investment in Arizona.”
That was her press release to the Arizona Republic. She’s attempting to woo Chinese businesses to AZ to they invest in our local economy. I have no problem with free trade on a global scale but I really want to know if her trip netted any amazing contracts. There’s been no follow-up press release about this. Where’s the indignation by Arizonans? It was a tiny article and barely mentioned on the news and I’m thinking many don’t know about her trip because they’re (we) are too busy looking for work, trying to feed kids and retain our jobs in a down market because state unemployment is 9.7% and I’m now part of it. See why I have time to catch up on our governor’s comings and goings?
From what I’ve read China doesn’t need to invest in anything other than itself. They’re building at an incredible rate. They may be communists but their country is looking a whole lot better than ours at this point. China rank has reigned as the world's second largest economy after the United States since 2010. It has been the world's fastest-growing major economy, with consistent growth rates of around 10% over the past 30 years. The People’s Republic is also the largest exporter and second largest importer of goods in the world. This is according to Newsweek, Forbes and Wikipedia. Say what you will about that last source but it was confirmed by the first two sources.
Settle down, I’m not suggesting we turn to Communism as our form of government. What I’m suggesting is perhaps we woo American companies to invest in Arizona. Has she partnered with other states to get grow businesses here? Get Texans to raise cattle out here? Ask Michigan to build cars here? What about suggesting Florida orange growers come try their luck out here? Not likely because those states are also in an economic crunch and taking away what they’re known to produce could be disastrous. Perhaps Jan feels she’d be cannibalizing other states in the Union so she decided to go abroad to a country with enormous economic strength. I can see the logic but only to an extent. By the way I'd say this if she went to India or Brazil, the other two growing world super powers.
Settle down, I’m not suggesting we turn to Communism as our form of government. What I’m suggesting is perhaps we woo American companies to invest in Arizona. Has she partnered with other states to get grow businesses here? Get Texans to raise cattle out here? Ask Michigan to build cars here? What about suggesting Florida orange growers come try their luck out here? Not likely because those states are also in an economic crunch and taking away what they’re known to produce could be disastrous. Perhaps Jan feels she’d be cannibalizing other states in the Union so she decided to go abroad to a country with enormous economic strength. I can see the logic but only to an extent. By the way I'd say this if she went to India or Brazil, the other two growing world super powers.
Did you know there’s been talk for eons about building a theme park here? Six Flags over Arizona. Building it would have created jobs and maintaining it would have created even more. Think of how big those amusement parks are! Six Flags over GA is 230 acres of rides, games, attractions and hotels. The Six Flags in both TX and CA are each nearly 250 acres! Instead nothing came to fruition in AZ. Six Flags sold the land to Warner Bros who let it languish for ten years before selling it to the state. And there it sits gathering more tumble weed.
The east valley built a top notch resort hotel and casino (Talking Stick) that’s helped them a bit and the west valley is proposing the same for their part of the valley (West Valley Resort) to coincide with the Cardinals football and Coyotes hockey fans. Only time will tell if these projects have a lasting impact on the local economy.
Today’s lie: My governor went all the way to China and all I got was the stupid tab.
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