Rick Scott and his 770,000 jobs

[HockeyMom]

Many years ago I worked in Finance for the Corporate Headquarters of a Fortune 500 company. They had been in business for over 100 years and their pharmaceutical and products plants were in New Jersey. They did a feasibility study of moving their plants, and division offices, to Florida. The operating costs were found to be better in Florida.

However, then they looked at personnel costs. They did a survey of current employees and asked would they be willing to relocate to Florida at their current NJ salaries. Only 2% said they were willing to relocate. The reasons they gave ranged from not wanting to sell their homes, move away from family, education of their children, to not liking warm weather.

The corporation then looked at hiring local people. Apparently, they did not like what they found. The report I saw talked about lack of "talent" in the state. They decided their pool of well educated and experienced employees was better in the Northeast.

This corporation nixed moving to Florida, basically because of Florida's EDUCATION. Yet, Rick Scott and the Republican controlled legislators are setting out to GUT Florida's education standards even more than they were in the past.

Unless, Mr. Scott wants to attract low wage, low skill businesses to Florida, he isn't going to get these high paying, skilled businesses to move to Florida without the EDUCATIONAL standards of other places in this country.

[rzemanfl]

1. People here think "right away" is where the road is and there is

a "d" in refrigerator. I used the word "Luddite" in a conversation with a woman with a professional degree and she looked at me like I had said "grfekberskilndjq."

[spin]

2. He probably figures that there are plenty of vacant homes in Florida,

and he can attract well educated employees for new high tech industries from other states.

I have lived in Florida for almost 42 years and I migrated here from Ohio. I worked in a high tech industry and most of my fellow employees were from out of state.