Memphis can’t fill jobs. And that can be linked directly back to the hacks of Pitt Hyde, Fred Smith, Willie Gregory, Christine Richards and Jack Moore. I know. With a proven ready to go solution in hand, I personally communicated with all of them more than 2 years ago that they had a disconnected workforce development problem occurring on the back of a Canadian contract award that could not deliver for taxpayers. They didn’t care.
More, the hacks were incumbent on dismissing my local Memphis small business solution, like they culturally do so many others, so they could give Nashville billionaire Orrin Ingram time to get his new Youscience venture off the ground. This occurred as 100,000 Memphis students and a community in need went without connected workforce development services for 4 years. My local small business needed the deal. Orrin Ingram didn’t need the deal.
But its a closed system in Memphis that shuts out its own people from business opportunity to education. They starve out small Memphis business, rip off their ideas and give them to their hack friends, a foreign company or a billionaire in Nashville while they are stuck on Stupid with excessive 75% tax abatements for every local corporation that walks in the door for jobs that they cannot fill !
That’s one of their perennial “strategic” decisions in 75% abatements for ALL corporate/real estate interests and not a better tomorrow for all in the community while unwilling to course correct as they are unchecked and measure absolutely nothing. And everyone thinks they are visionaries. At some point, most can be a visionary if they hog the plate, unchecked for 20 years. But not this crew.
Take for example the upcoming Auto Zone tax abatement. Benchmarked against Nashville, that would be a $3.5M abatement when converted to higher Memphis tax dollars, not $11.3M. That’s not to say Auto Zone, already here, shouldn’t get an abatement but not 75% for 15 years. Guarantee it. This Auto Zone deal goes forward at $3.5M with a 15 year term.
Then again, the problem is a more responsible downsized abatement from $11.3M, reduces the $300K in fee revenue for EDGE who is incented to represent corporations over the taxpayer. Another example of the a design for decline authored by the hacks of the Memphis ecosystem.
Conclusion
A more robotic economy ? They already have a robotic economy in Memphis. The robotic economy comes with needed vitality for growth tapped down and a community sheltered from real facts and programmed with the support of a non-investigative press, advocacy organizations that don’t advocate with specific solutions for critical questions and a scared ignorant educated population that knows nothing else but decline in the face of pageantry and bogus measurement.
There is no sense of urgency and no real measurement of taxpayer funded initiatives in the home of FedEx. The hacks want government funding for their nonprofit complex, excessive tax abatements, lower taxes and most of all, no accountability. It never has worked and never will.
From the top of the Memphis ecosystem, unmeasured, they don’t course correct in Memphis when using taxpayer dollars. They keep misdirecting funds with excessive tax abatements when the real priority is filling jobs, educating the population and transacting with local small business to grow tax revenues. All of this deficiency is home grown from the the hacks at the top of the ecosystem. If you have ever worked in other communities, you know.
The rigged condition from the top is why Memphis doesn’t grow while being left behind in the global economy. Its just more of the same from a closed social Crump culture of the 1940s…..
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