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What's the bigger issue behind the beef plant? Buying jobs.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 24-JAN-05 		Format: Online - approximately 894 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: What's the bigger issue behind the beef plant? Buying jobs.(As I See It)(Column)

Article Excerpt
Pick up a newspaper or tune in to a local TV newscast and you're going to find plenty of coverage of the failed beef processing plant in Yalobusha County. The Mississippi media has covered the basic facts, as well as the accusations, fingerpointing and crawfishing by the key players of this economic development project gone wrong, in great detail.

This attention has been good because what happened with the Mississippi Beef Processors facility in Oakland is a big deal.

It remains to be seen what the taxpayers' tab for this mess will be, but rest assured that the political consequences will be significant. While I'm willing to believe that many involved in putting this project together had the best of intentions, those intentions have cost the State of Mississippi--funded by you and me--millions....

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