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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

School Tech Connect: Caterpillar and Corporate Greed

School Tech Connect: Caterpillar and Corporate Greed

Caterpillar and Corporate Greed

Can we just draft this Mike Jacobs (D-Moline) for governor? I like the way this guy just tells it like it is in this Statehouse News piece:

"We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars, federal dollars, to put brand new roads into Peoria," Jacobs said. "And the emphasis behind a lot of those roads was to make sure that Caterpillar could get their equipment in and out. And now that we've spent that money, Caterpillar is saying 'Yeah, we're making record profits, but we want more."
If you're one of my international visitors (ahem..), you may not know that one of our large, flush-with-cash