Stand and Deliver, Business Geniuses

For years Space Coast businesses and taxpayers have poured millions of dollars into the Economic Development Commission and four Chambers of Commerce, largely on the assumption that these organizations can attract new businesses, create new jobs and raise the prosperity of our community. Now it’s time for these organizations to deliver on that promise.

Our current recession, painful as it is, is just an annoyance compared to the jarring economic dislocation we will suffer if we have no replacements for the jobs and business activity that will disappear with the Space Shuttle. Today we’re suffering with only about 8% unemployment. Titusville is facing the prospect of 50% unemployment, and the rest of the county is facing unbearable declines in employment, home values, business revenues, tax revenues and everything else that depends upon a sustained strong economy.
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