The Virginian-Pilot
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Gov. Bob McDonnell on Friday called on economic development officials in Virginia to continue to help the state in adding jobs and bringing down unemployment.
Speaking at a conference for the Virginia Economic Development Association at the Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront, the governor encouraged officials to work on promoting commercial sites in Virginia to attract more companies to the state.
The state has lost several prospects because it did not have suitable sites for the companies, he said.
The governor also reassured the officials that his administration was working to keep the U.S. Joint Forces Command from closing and is monitoring any discussion of the Navy relocating a carrier group. McDonnell said he has scheduled a meeting with Defense Secretary Robert Gates to make his case for keeping JFCOM.
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mcdonnell
Mconnell our jobs governor.....sure he is!
"strive for jobs"?
"strive for jobs"?
Yet Bob McD wants to keep "the biggest job-killing tax out there."
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/01/mcdonnell-wont-push-remove-corporate-income-tax#comment-832855
Economic Disfunction
Perhaps ronald mcdonald needs to create the educational, intellectual and civil-engineering infrastructure to attract the proper jobs. We need an ivy league quality school in our area that will seed the growth for a high tech, knowledge based companies that will create well paid and rewarding jobs. We also need to widen the tunnels add high speed rail to get connected to the NorthEast Megalopolis. These ideas are not too big when you take a look at America history. We built stuff like this before slide-rules & caterpillar earth movers. What we need instead of all these ED departments run by government worker mentality folks who like to "build relationships" with "great guys" while attending cubs games is a dynamic leader with Big Cahona's like DeWitt Clinton (guy who built Erie Canal) who has vision and can command resources to make the dreams into reality. This is the American way, it is not hiring non-economists/d bureacrats who just tell us that its not possible or "that has never been done before". We need to ask ourselves why does one region have 17 departments that overlap each other while we steer into dire economic headwinds?