{"id":6701,"date":"2014-01-08T21:10:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T03:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2014-01-08T21:10:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T03:10:18","slug":"pigs-at-the-trough-guns-are-big-business-who-gets-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/pigs-at-the-trough-guns-are-big-business-who-gets-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigs at the trough &#8212; Guns are big business (who gets rich?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the dicks who abandoned Colorado. Hey, at least Cheyenne will get 80 jobs for its $15 million dollar investment. Hoodwinked much?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyomingnews.com\/articles\/2014\/01\/08\/news\/20local_01-08-14.txt\">Commission approves Magpul loan and grant &#8211; Wyoming Tribune Eagle Online<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The loan is for <strong>$5 million<\/strong>, and the grant is for <strong>$8 million<\/strong>. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Bendel added, \u201cIn light of the substantial offers being made by other states, the only way that Wyoming can successfully attract Magpul is with this large, $13 million grant and loan package.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The grant funds would be used by Cheyenne LEADS to buy a temporary manufacturing facility for Magpul. Cheyenne LEADS plans to use up to <strong>$1.5 million<\/strong> of its own funds to rehabilitate the temporary facility to meet Magpul\u2019s needs, Bendel said. \u2026  <\/p>\n<p>Magpul\u2019s relocation will bring about 80 new jobs to the county in the first year\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Despite the <strong>positive economic impact<\/strong> of the relocation, not everyone at Tuesday\u2019s County Commission meeting supported bringing Magpul to town.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Heffern asked the commissioners to deny the loan and grant requests on the basis of the products Magpul makes.<\/p>\n<p>Heffern said the community should not support an industry that makes products whose \u201cmain purpose is to harm other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCheyenne is worried about its image,\u201d Heffern said. \u201cWe have to ask ourselves if this is the image we want.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyomingnews.com\/articles\/2014\/01\/08\/news\/20local_01-08-14.txt\">Commission approves Magpul loan and grant &#8211; Wyoming Tribune Eagle Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the dicks who abandoned Colorado. Hey, at least Cheyenne will get 80 jobs for its $15 million dollar investment. Hoodwinked much? Commission approves Magpul loan and grant &#8211; Wyoming Tribune Eagle Online The loan is for $5 million, and the grant is for $8 million. \u2026 Bendel added, \u201cIn light of the substantial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/pigs-at-the-trough-guns-are-big-business-who-gets-rich\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pigs at the trough &#8212; Guns are big business (who gets rich?)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6702,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions\/6702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}