There are few jobs in this area because our leaders have done nothing to attract industry while Mississippi has given bond money to investors. Our senator has awarded money to cheerleader camps and presented senior centers with pool tables and found construction projects for a favored few while the real needs of our district revolve around full-employment.
In Vina, l.6 million of our tax dollars has gone into an empty building. The paper labeled it a “Spec” building. Some folks will think this means “specification.” But no, the word is short for “Speculation” which is what goes on with Wall Street. The building is intended to gather scraps and crumbs from the Toyota plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi. To use the Vina building, potential suppliers have to drive 60 miles over narrow roads through Fulton and Golden and other points west. 1.6 million dollars in tax abatements might have gotten us the Toyota plant in Vina in the first place.
In addition, a severance tax is paid on gravel, sand, and coal mined in District Six. That money was originally intended to repair roads torn up by trucks hauling material mined here. In fact, the money lay in Certificates of Deposit to hold until election time to be handed out to various interests in the name of bringing home the bacon. Well, the bacon came from the pig that used to live in your barn four years ago.
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