They’ve actually gone to Texas
Illinois has lost out to Texas in a bid for a new Caterpillar plant.
Caterpillar Inc. said Thursday it chose Victoria, Texas, as the site for the new factory, which will make a line of excavating equipment, including some currently built in Aurora.
The new plant will employ about 500 when it opens in mid-2012. Aurora isn’t expected to lose jobs, however, because of Caterpillar’s recently announced plans to build hydraulic mining shovels there.
It’s the second time Caterpillar has shuffled some work from Illinois to Texas.
And will the bureaucrats in Illinois use this as a lesson on WHY large companies are choosing to manufacture their products outside of their state this time around?
Probably not.
Well, hell, if they understood the lesson it would mean they’d been WRONG about something.
And they can’t have that, can they?