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Originally posted by cannon_fodder
my guess is that a $4mil investment at a plant like that only represents a small handful of new jobs - maybe 5 or 10. It seems likely that the new machines will probably replace older machines and/or serve to guarantee existing jobs more than create new ones.
$4,000,000.00 buys a lot less machine tool than one might think. And they don't take many people to operate. On the flip side, that's why machine operators make decent money.
So at least these jobs aren't just minimum-wage, telecom jobs... We definitely don't need more of those.
And I believe the investment between the two plants in Tulsa and the one in Texas is $
14,000,000, not $4,000,000. So if it were divided equally, it would be at least $7m investment in Tulsa.