Friday, December 02, 2011

Beware the Music Man

Harold Hill was a shyster salesman. He would come into town, make big promises about improving the town, collect the money, and never return. Our modern Music Men are the big corporations that make big promises about creating jobs, extract lots of concessions and grants from local government that local businesses never receive, stay a year or two, and then leave.

See Facebook comments to the Coffee Party's posting of "7 Ways to Support the Real Job Creators".