This week’s lead story in the El Paso Inc. is about the SeaDoo company opening up a new $55 million plant. In Juarez.
If Juarez is an option, why would any CEO locate a plant in El Paso? A maquila worker makes in a day what an American factory worker makes in an hour. All those promises that the movers and the shakers have been making about better jobs in El Paso are just what you needed to hear to persuade you to back their self-serving play, to convert public funds into private profits.
I mean, really? Downtown development? Try vacant lots.