Theme parks' squabbling could kill bullet train project

[phlydude]

You guys need to read "Married to the Mouse".

It is a good book showing how crucial Disney is to the Orlando area and also shows the flip side of how Disney has made the Orlando area too dependent upon it. It talks in detail about planning and economic impact but is still good nonetheless.

I found it on E-bay for under $10 for a hardcover.

 

[MouseRight]

All that still goes back to either Disney or evens out. Whether that work gets split amongst one or five companies - it still is the saem amount.

There's also the argument that a lot of that is purely large corporation product and the real benefits to the average person are mostly as lower level jobs. By decentralizing and focusing on more smaller companies, you are employing a wider spectrum of workers with different levels of experience and skills, and you tend to have much more of the actual company local to you, instead of in an entirely different state.

Economic impact is like one drop in a clear lake. The one drop reverberates out into larger and larger rings. (Pretty profound, don't you think?). Economic studies show that a dollar spent in a region by a visitor compunds into a growing # of related purchases and helps to sustain the local economy.

As to those lower wage jobs that you and the democrats are complaining about (You know what they say - "Yea we have created 1.2 million jobs but they are mostly low quality, low wage jobs"). Those are just as important to a community than any other job. Those people work in the resorts, restaurants, etc. go home with their famlies, buy food & stuff just like everybody else. A $ paid to them has the potential to have the same economic impact as a $ paid to someone making more. Orlando in 1970 - mostly orange groves and rural communities. Orlando now - besides being the vacation destination of the world, it is a thriving major economic region able to attract and sustain employers of all sizes.

Good suggestion on reading "Married to the Mouse" I know I read it several years ago, but I may have to get it from the library (I don't buy books. If the they wanted me to buy books, they wouldn't have invented the library) and read it again.

 

[cloudboy]

OK, This is turning political. I think it is time we moved on before we all get thrown off the boards.