Comments for North Lafayette lands $65 million Halliburton expansion at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 24 out of 20 comments http://www.theind.com Sat, 25 May 2013 11:52:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16791 Yea let's blame our problems on the moratorium instead of the sloppy ass company who caused an oil spill and cast doubt on the ability of a self regulated industry to do the right thing. People around here are so damned brainwashed, it's pathetic. - Get Real Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:48:20 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16694 Hey Meacan't, I know enough to have built one from scratch, and not have to ever punch a clock. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:00:24 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16597 Posted a comment for Northsidian Shotgun about the documentary, "Gashole." I think it had disappeared. - Gaius Cilnius Maecenas Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:17:18 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16596 NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN: Google the documentary, Gashole. I would be interested in your reactions. I know you don't know a damn thing about ancient religious texts, but you might know something about the nasty, dirty oil companies here! - Gaius Cilnius Maecenas Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:15:57 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16540 Susanne Broussard wonderful sentiments! - Gaius Cilnius Maecenas Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:18:23 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16539 Right on Suzanne Broussard! Beautifully written and stated. Aristocratic sentiments much needed in this discussion. You just articulated the vision for LEDA and Lafayette! Maybe when Joey retires, you can be our next great mayor? After all, few realize it is the capacity or talent to speak well that induces moral value in a community. This is why there is so much emphasis put on rhetoric for the proper development of Leadership skills! It's all about "communicatin" [spelling blunder intentional], and you lady, got it! You made my day! - Gaius Cilnius Maecenas Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:16:37 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16496 It is not true that "EVERY business receives a huge tax break from a town or city"...no, only those very large international corporations that are owned by people who do not live here, do not send their children to school here, do not drink the water here or breath the air here...we do not know the owners, we don't know their agenda, we know nothing about them. Those small home-grown companies, owned by our relatives and neighbors and those whose families have been here since there was nothing but wilderness...those are the business that get no help whatsoever from 'we the taxpayer'. There is too much emphasis on multi-nationals when ten small, locally owned businesses would have provided 150 jobs if there were a program to support and encourage them similar to the efforts put into attracting the multi-nationals who park their profits in off-shore banks. It might look like a good idea now for Halliburton to be here, but in the long run, the profits generated by all these high-tech experts will be taken out of Louisiana and invested in China, for example. I have no problem with Halliburton locating here. I do have a problem with the fact that there is no equal program for offering help to small local businesses that come up with innovative drilling techniques and other similar, valuable, patentable ideas. LEDA has done an excellent job in attracting this Halliburton facility, but let's focus on some home-grown talent for a change, and keep the profits in Louisiana. Let's not be dazzled by the big dollars, when those big dollars are leaving Louisiana by the truckload. Haven't we had enough of that yet? Lafayette is a great town, one of the best in the United States. Let's support our home town talent now that we have this Halliburton facility. How about it LEDA? Some alternative energy business development, local food production and distribution, improved education and economic development on a neighborhood level...all of this would be a good balance to the great Halliburton achievement here, don't you think? - Suzanne Broussard Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:00:04 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16480 James M. apparently you do not get it. Every business receives a huge tax break from a town / or city when they set their stake down within their tax boundary, its called good smart business practice. Ask the Greenambulanceman and the surveyman, Festermaker with the halfbubbleoff scope. Aw say, "Thank You, Joey ! - HARDHAT Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:43:56 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16464 Knowledge is Power "James, this is how the game is played.... Do you think those other states and countries did not offer these types of incentives? --------------- There is the rub; playing a game which undermines the economic process. Just because others do it, does not mean it is good idea. Of course I am happy Halliburton located here but was it the best economic decision? Nevertheless, it is a bribe, a legal bribe, resulting in a subsidy by taxpayers. - James Melancon Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:28:44 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16418 I'm tired of people who don't understand that the Oil companies and the companies that support those Oil companies have been the base of our economy in south Louisiana for so many years. Oil companies employed south Louisiana workers, who in the beginning, had little education and only a strong back to give. Those employees were able to make a good wage and where able to support their families and send their children the college to get a good education that improved the overall workforce in the area. We're talking generations of good, well paying jobs. Yeah, call me oilfield trash!!!Thank you Haliburton for investing in Lafayette! - Northern Cynic Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:27:21 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16399 Is Northside High now named Upper Lafayette High School? - Southsider Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:11:31 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16378 Yllets, it is clear you are not a business owner or related to anyone who owns a business in the area. Many businesses were and continue to be affected by the moratorium. I presume you feel that until we have doors boarded up and unemployment of over 15% that there was no economic effect caused by the spill and moratorium? I actually know the owners of Otter's and read the article you are speaking of and they did not blame the moratorium for their closing but acknowledged that it certainly affected them and was a part of their decision to close as the lost sales from people that worked in the industry was evident to them and other businesses in the area. Please take the time to understand things fully and realize that comments such as yours degrading others who take a chance and invest money in our city and may not make it certainly do not encourage others to make the same investment and keep our city growing... - Reality Please... Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:02:27 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16350 Maecanas, we could shut out the oil companys and return to peeling shrimp and skinning nutria, as in the manner of our grandparents and parents..........You need to do a study of the Lafayette Oil Center, and learn how the little town of Crowley La. refused the building of the Oil Center in their town, refusals from the old money town leaders kept the oil companys out of Crowley, today Crowley La. can hardly be rated anything other than a one horse town, with its boarded-up store fronts. Thank God for the Heymanns, the Van Ways, the Owens, the Mosings, the Halliburtons, the Schlumbergers, the Baker Littlefields, the Lamberts, the Stooksberrys, the Greenes, these and many more who set their stake in this town and made it what it is today, a "THRIVING CITY. It is the Oil Industry who supports South Louisiana, from Lake Charles to Venice La. and all in between, and that is why you may enjoy a drive-thru and a Starbucks, and without the Oil Industry you would have neither available, for your personal enjoyment. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:00:38 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16309 I hate to be the skunk at the garden party here, but Halliburton? We really need one more nasty oil & gas facility in Lafayette, don't we? 900 of them is not enough. With most manufacturing facilities, there is a tremendous quantity of water consumed. I hope this high-tech industrial plant does not deplete our aquifer water supply. I personally do not consider this a big deal. I would have been more impress with a solar or wind high tech company. However, it is still quite an accomplishment for LEDA. My fears are rooted in larger concerns and down the road realities that have not reared their ugly head yet. - Gaius Cilnius Maecenas Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:53:53 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16306 Clearly, the sarcasm in my comment was lost. As was stated in the IND article regarding Otters' closing, the fact that a sub-par chicken finger restaurant could fail and blame the moratorium is, at best, absurd. I'm actually very happy for this great opportunity that has been afforded to Upper Lafayette. Keep up the good work, LEDA and everyone involved. - Yllets Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:27:46 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16295 Obviously Yllets has never been to Downtown Detroit....it looks like Beirut. With its abandoned store fronts and decaying buildings. Kudos to Gregg and his team for landing this big fish. And isn't it now called Upper Lafayette? - Joe Politico Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:07:44 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16290 Yllets, are you really going to try and compare the closing of one sub-par chicken finger chain to the decline that has taken place in Detroit? The moratorium has hurt this area but as this announcement shows we are FAR from becoming the next Detroit. As long as we have LCG, LEDA and the State of LA out there working to attract diverse industries and good paying jobs we will not become Detroit. - Knowledge is Power Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:23:06 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16288 That terrible moratorium was devastating for our economy. Will our fair region ever recover from its wrath, or are we destined to be the next Detroit? Never forget that chicken finger place that was just like Cane's but not at all! - Yllets Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:59:47 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16287 One more large corporation landing in the " Northside, will equalize the tax revenue of all the drive-thru takee outee food oasis's in central Lafayetteb Parish. this is coming at a most timely phase of the rebuilding of the Northside, welcome " Halliburton. Big Red ! - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:46:59 +0100 http://www.theind.com/business-news/acadiana-business/8085-lafayette-lands-65-million-halliburton-expansion#comment-16280 Great - "The Northside" (now North Lafayette) needed this BIG TIME! - Billy Savely Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:55:39 +0100