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cwolff 
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Posted on: Sep. 19 2003,7:00 pm |
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This slaughtering plant will provide 375 to 1000 jobs in St. Joseph, but the wages will not support a family. The plant may use up to 1.75 million gallons of fresh water per day pumped out of the aquifer and then discharged into the watershed with 30 parts per million of phosphorus, which could produce upto 180,000 pounds of algae per day. These numbers are what happens at the slaughtering plant in Worthington each and every day. Cities around the state and country must love what these slaughtering plants bring, because cities also give these companies tax incentives to bring their self serving destructive BS to town.
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minnow
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Posted on: Sep. 19 2003,8:25 pm |
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Sparks knowingly helped Hoffman and company lie and spread misinformation.
Did I mention that Sparks is a dinosaur that needs to be put out to pasture? 
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MADDOG
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Posted on: Sep. 20 2003,1:18 pm |
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letter taken from St. Joes News Press 9-20-03:
Time will tell
We read that $26 million of taxpayers’ money from city, state, county and federal government is being invested in a private hog venture that may or may not be successful. Only time will tell.
This is about 20 percent of the total possible investment of $128 million. Those who are our partners in Premium Pork, the investors who are putting up $102 million cash, should be known and their credentials checked.
If this is such a good deal, why shouldn’t the city have 20 percent of the company’s stock? Cities across the land have been taken by sharp talkers who promise heaven and then it turns out to be hell. Politicians, you may be gambling with the taxpayers’ money. Beware.
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cwolff
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Posted on: Sep. 20 2003,2:38 pm |
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Maddog, we are basically on the same page on this issue, but if you could name one success that could possibly come from a hog slaughtering plant, what would it be?
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minnow
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Posted on: Sep. 20 2003,2:52 pm |
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Well, hermmmm...let me think.
1. It would make Rick Hoffman and his private Boston Family (his employer) a very large profit.
2. It would provide poor white unskilled white folk and illegal immigrants with low paying, hard working jobs.
That's all I can think of.
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MADDOG
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Posted on: Sep. 20 2003,3:17 pm |
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cwulff, I'd like to think it would be a better and more consistant price on hogs for area farmers, but that would only be a hopeful.
Therefore, I would say....AROMATHERAPY
Seriously, it is hard to pick a positive or success on a pork processing plant, this town has been burned so many times. Low paying wages, polluted lakes, ground water,soil, illegals, increased crime, higher government services, high job turnover which creates more welfare, poverty, you name it. Any one out there wish to name the one success (other than increasing the wealth of the company) step right up. H#11, with P-9 ready to strike again over in Austin, they're not going to have anything positive.
Come to think of it, when an area hog plant does go on strike around here, it increases pay for the Nat'l. Guard!
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MADDOG
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Posted on: Sep. 22 2003,9:33 am |
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Today's St. Joes Press:
The huge pig roast
Mark Saturday, Nov. 8, on your calendar and keep your evening open.
On that day, Mayor David Jones will celebrate a “Mayoral Pig Roast” to honor Premium Pork’s decision to locate in St. Joseph. And, even more, the event will mark the beginning of the complete renovation of the stockyards area.
LOL
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Liberal
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Posted on: Sep. 22 2003,11:11 am |
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I wonder if Mayor Jones will be wearing his strap-on pig nose?
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jimhanson
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Posted on: Sep. 22 2003,11:16 am |
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I wonder if Hoffman will be wearing his strap-on you-know-what! 
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Ole1kanobe
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Posted on: Sep. 23 2003,12:52 am |
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So does that mean the Mayor is a pig and they are going to give him a good roatsting? 
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