Notes From All Over, Part 2 -- February 20, 2020

AOC has company: Bolingbrook, IL, mayor rejects Amazon's offer to build a "massive" distribution center in Bolingbrook:

• would add 1,500 jobs
• $15/hour
• mayor says $15/hour is not a living wage
• too much traffic; would choke a nearby intersection on Interstate 55
• building would be too tall and unsightly
• comment: wow: the distribution centers around DFW are huge (and not unsightly; and no traffic jams)
• an Amazon distribution center would attract more such centers by other companies
• would result in more mom-and-pop retail in the local area
• clearly, there is a difference in the way Texans think and some other parts of the US
• So, Bolingbrook, IL:
• a southwest suburb of Chicago
• population: 75,000 -- the state's second largest village
• number of corporate headquarters there suggest something like Plano or Frisco here in Texas, a "suburb" north of Dallas;
• per capita income
• Bolingbrook, IL: $23,468 (median: $67,852)
• Plano, TX: the highest median income of a city with a population exceeding 250,000 in the nation; $84,492 
• Frisco, TX:  $38,048 (median: $109,086
• home value:
• Bolingbrook, IL: $153,410 (2000)
• Frisco, TX: $500,000 (median); 2nd fastest growing city in the US at 6.5% annually;

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Strategic Planning

This is really, really cool.

I learned a lot about strategic planning while in the USAF.

Example: put down your "goal" / "outcome" that you desire at some time in the future, five years from now, ten years from now, thirty years from now. Then figure out how you get there starting from the current status.

Hold that thought.

Now, a thought experiment. Let's say your political party wants to broaden its voter base. Maybe "illegal" immigrants could be part of your voter base.

Strategic planning, first step: take out a huge flip-chart easel. Second step: a black Sharpie.

At the top, print: illegal immigrants can't vote.

At the bottom of the 24-inch by 36-inch flip chart: illegal immigrants allowed to vote/same day registration.

Now, draw about six rectangles on the flip chart between the top entry and the goal/outcome at the bottom.

At the bottom, the last rectangle that is not filled in, write: allow state driver's licenses to satisfy requirement for voter id/registration.

In the penultimate rectangle: introduce/pass legislation to allow state driver's licenses to satisfy requirement for voter id/registration.

In the next unfilled rectangle nearer the top: illegal immigrants allowed state driver's licenses.

Etc., etc., etc.

I was asked why states would want to give illegal immigrants the right to state driver's licenses. My reply: follow the money or google it. In this case, neither worked.

Fortunately Rush Limbaugh explained it.