Company: Brazil hires unrelated to ND layoffs
October 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
A company that ships wind turbine blades through the Twin Ports announced last week that it would create 300 jobs at a new factory in Brazil, just a week after announcing it would cut more than 300 jobs at its manufacturing facility in Grand Forks, N.D.
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Brazil supports wind energy, Brazil gets jobs. The United States dismisses wind energy as a leftist conspiracy, the United States loses jobs… and energy independence.
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Brazil has a different taxing structure to support wind energy, Brazil gets $3/hr jobs. The People of the United States dismiss wind energy as too overly subsidized with our tax dollars, the United States loses jobs it never should have gotten into in the first place because it can’t compete at $40-$50/hr.
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According to PayScale.com, the median salary for a mechanical engineer in Brazil is R$94,000, or about $46,000 in US dollars. That’s a far cry from $3/hr. And for all the conservative talk of people who supposedly feel “too good” to work for $9/hour, I’d like to meet the guy who’s too good to work for $23/hour.
I think you’ve got it all wrong, Don. If you want to talk about subsidies, the U.S. pours way more into fossil fuel energy companies than it does for renewable energy. That in itself tips the scales against the U.S.
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Your doctor doesn’t work for $23 an hour, unless he’s a quack.
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