http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1025/opinions-steve-forbes-fact-comment-this-mouse-roaring.html

Highlights: flat taxes on personal and business income; low-cost leased land to new businesses; payroll tax cuts; strengthened property right laws, etc.

This is not an endorsement of the strategies, just a mention of them for what they are worth. At least somebody is cheerleading for prosperity somewhere in the world!

Contrariwise, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain (PIIGS) have Bubbled out in Huge Unemployment and Housing Bubbles, with little Job Opportunity.

The “Boise Watercooler” or “Greenhouse”, (the Green business incubator) are little more than tawdry Taxpayer subsidized Political Propaganda Organs to “Tout Warm and Fuzzy” notions of job opportunity.

The Heavy Equipment being shipped from Korea through Idaho, to Billings and Alberta, Canada could NOT pass “Political” Muster in “Green” Idaho. Rather, the ability to manufacture such much needed Infrastructure Equipment was not available in Idaho, much less Boise. The Refineries are NOT in Idaho. Mining??? – Oh, Bieter doesn’t like that either…

Any business that manufactures anything remotely offensive to Tree Hugging Greenies is located outside of Idaho. Idaho is too Business Unfriendly EXCEPT to Government Subsidized “Environmental Luddites” that chant the Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) Touchy-Feely Socialist Mantra.

For example, look at the vast number of Firearms Manufacturers (Civilian and Military) … How many are in Idaho??? At least in Lewiston Ammunition is manufactured. Heck, New York (among a number of other States) has a significant Firearms Industry, with jobs paying more than $10 per hour.

Minnesota produces a High Tech weapon system for the Army (Minnesota’s Alliant Techsystems said that “the price was negotiated in advance of the purchase by contract at $35,000 per unit and the Army is expected to purchse 12500 of these rifles and have already taken delivery of the first shipment of them). All the laid off Micron Employees, yet Minnesota is Pragmatically Generating Jobs

As a result a number of other States in this REPUBLIC are positioning themselves for Growth & Real Jobs, with Environmental Oversight substantially beyond that of India and China.

Buy Idaho ??? Business is Voting With Their Feet – > Bye Idaho… ‘C’ ya Dr. Clarkenstein!

Psst: There is a reason why the sales staff is never allowed to run a car dealership.