CHATANOOGA, Tenn., Tuesday, Sept. 24,2024 – Charles Woods says local government and the chamber of commerce must continue their public-private partnerships to promote jobs and regular old “economic growth” and “economic development.”
The CEO of the area business group long a proponent of a planned economy explains how economic development works. A person buys a house, buys a car, has a family — and such commitment to living and enjoying in Chattanooga “benefits lots of businesses.”
Mr. Woods wants the public mind to focus on “partnerships.” The city works “incredibly collaboratively” The “philanthropic community,” government officials and corporations working selflessly, even noogacentrically.
Mr. Woods touts three partnerships that lets the chamber “push forward our mission.”
Two are —
Chattanooga Regional Manufacturing Association. The group will remain its own 501(c)6 group, but the chamber will be a manager of the group and back office support. The collaboration will help in the “talent pipeline” function the chamber promotes. The collaboration will also help focus attention on manufacturing.
La Paz and Small Business Development Center both aiding Latino businesspeople.
Mr. Woods says nothing about the interference of government and private cartels in the prospect of local economy, the leading harm being of currency debasement by private banking interests, starting with the federal reserve system, the paper issue of which is in a state of collapse as private money, not public money fixed to a recognized standard of weight of silver or gold.
Like central bankers, he focuses on the rosy scenario, of things that must be done vs. and not those things working tirelessly against local control and decentralized solutions — those things that siphon away life and local capitalization in the national degringolade, about which not a word is spoken.
He says the chamber wants to have “a path to create a great future for a person.” Such New World Order verbiage shows the chamber’s long-term commitment to help government make Hamilton County and Chattanooga “leaders” in the big tech and big oligarch dream of counting every conceivable thing in existence, ostensibly to find the real value and create new value for humanity in discovery into the intimate. If trombone players, poets, beekeepers and neighborhood gardens are counted into big data, each part, and each sub-unit, can either be monetized and traded — or counted as a debit against one party or another in a great blockchain ledger controlled by remote unknowns, people who seem to be wresting control of predestination— an inescapable concept — from God himself, if that were possible.
Mr. Woods outlines numerous goals.
➤ He wants to get UTC to help us with a “talent pipeline” and “bring a pathway for us” for nurses. F$55 million put up by Gov. Bill Lee government to assist with the project.
➤ He yearns to help people who’ve been imprisoned and jailed. Project Return in Nashville and the chamber viewed as an economic development project. McKee and Southern Champion took part in 2021 and 2022 to work with many dozens of former offenders.
➤ He wants to find a way to “embed” workforce development promoters in poor areas.A pilot program helped raise F$10 million for construction for career center. Marianne Garber school is apparently in process of being revived toward this end, governments put in 4 million and others put in money.
➤ One project in the making “greenfield sites for job recruitment,” as the slide says. Just starting.
➤ Growth less than 1 percent per year past 10 years, he says, with blacks at half the showing of whites. Concerning. The city must plan for “economic growth. We know growth is important.”
➤ Mr. Woods said the chamber wants, and is getting, money to expand the North Shore incubator for startups. The chamber wants 75 new companies, with many founded by minority owned or led, next five years.
➤ Still ahead, the need to invent new tools for financing. “Leverage financing tools,” such as gift stipends for new jobs, he suggests. Financial magic, a term Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly used in a 2023 state of the city speech, is nearly exhausted, the latest innovation being the TIF, or tax increment financial scheme.
According to the Strong Towns group, municipal governments nationwide are facing bankruptcy under the so-called growth Ponzi scheme. No sign of people at the chamber having read the 2011 5-part essay by Chuck Mahron, The Growth Ponzi Scheme, Part 1.
Mr. Woods says space for companies needing more space is available at Enterprise South and 2,000 acre McDonald Farm in north county, which the county purchased for F$16 million.
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