A talking shop known as the Puget Sound Regional Council says that "It's Time for One Economic Strategy for the Puget Sound"
Business and government leaders announced today they have joined together to create a unified economic strategy for Puget Sound with the goal to create 100,000 new jobs for the region.The PSRC has helped launch a so-called "Prosperity Partnership", which is putting on a "Regional Economic Summit" tomorrow.
The "summit" is sponsored by the direct beneficiaries of large-scale public boondoggle projects -- CH2M HILL, Bank of America, Foster Pepper Sheffelman, and by corporate welfare queen Boeing.
With the mantra of "100,000 New Jobs", the summit is intended to build support for the massive infrastructure projects that are beloved by its sponsors. Projects like Sound Transit, that bleed the productive economy and enrich the few while doing little to address the underlying problems that they're purported to fix.
The Prosperity Partnership represents the first time that community leaders from throughout the central Puget Sound counties have agreed to collaborate on a unified economic agenda for the region. Instead of individual communities competing with one another for economic activity, the Prosperity Partnership will pursue a single agenda for the benefit of the entire metropolitan region.Sorry dudes, competition is a good thing. Central planning will only causes economic constipation, or worse. None for me, thanks. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 18, 2004 12:31 PM | Email This
A centralized economic policy is sheer folly, worthy of the former Soviet Union...and we all know how that worked out.
Let the jobs and prosperity go to the city/county/state with the lowest taxes and fewest regulations.
Let the greens be green, and unemployed and poor.
Posted by: Kevin Shannon on November 18, 2004 10:27 PM