Posted: 2/3/2014 3:13:44 PM EDT
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Looks like Magpul has taken their ball and moved to Wyoming.
I'm sure Colorado can use the old plant to roll joints or something |
| Their Corporate headquarters is moving to Texas. The manufacturing plant is moving to Wyoming. Magpul |
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I wish they had moved to OKLAHOMA! Well yeah that should go without saying but I feel like Texas had a better chance than we did. Yes they are more of a business dynamo than Oklahoma but we honestly need to promote the state more to these types of businesses that are currently in a hostile state. |
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I wish they had moved to OKLAHOMA! Well yeah that should go without saying but I feel like Texas had a better chance than we did. Yes they are more of a business dynamo than Oklahoma but we honestly need to promote the state more to these types of businesses that are currently in a hostile state. I totally agree! Oklahoma and our governor need to be more proactive on these issues. |
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Our governor is busy enjoying being a "VIPIHOM"*. She does just enough to appease the little people then spends most of her time avoiding the little people and their petty issues. She reminds me of what it would look like if Tammy Fae Baker was the governor. Other than open carry I can't recall another issue the little people have presented that she didn't crap on.
Her stance that using revenue already banked from increased business profit and approving a bond to provide funds for school storm shelters was not as important as keeping business taxes as is to encourage new business growth is nauseating. How can the lives of citizens children, and the future of Oklahoma, be less important than keeping the business tax stable to hopefully attract new business growth in the state???? That's the most callous, elitist attitude I've ever seen from an Oklahoma governor. Why would businesses want to come to Oklahoma when their own children aren't considered important enough to protect with a storm shelter? This isn't Wisconsin where the biggest danger is a cheese overdose, this is Oklahoma where our entire state history has been peppered with tornado related tragedies. Our school systems, especially rural areas, are already rated in the bottom five, in the nation, for test score because the schools are so strapped for cash they cannot maintain the national lowest standards. Now, because this issue went public on a national level, and even people in other states are publicly disparing her, she's in the middle of damage control trying to put a spin on what really happened as to avoid being tarred and feathered by irate citizens. As far as I'm concerned, and most of the people in this state, mostly parents, she's showed her feathers and it's time for her to go. Oklahoman's are all for business growth but not at the expense of their children's lives. *"VIPIHOM" : Very Important Person In Her Own Mind. |
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Our governor is busy enjoying being a "VIPIHOM"*. She does just enough to appease the little people then spends most of her time avoiding the little people and their petty issues. She reminds me of what it would look like if Tammy Fae Baker was the governor. Other than open carry I can't recall another issue the little people have presented that she didn't crap on. Her stance that using revenue already banked from increased business profit and approving a bond to provide funds for school storm shelters was not as important as keeping business taxes as is to encourage new business growth is nauseating. How can the lives of citizens children, and the future of Oklahoma, be less important than keeping the business tax stable to hopefully attract new business growth in the state???? That's the most callous, elitist attitude I've ever seen from an Oklahoma governor. Why would businesses want to come to Oklahoma when their own children aren't considered important enough to protect with a storm shelter? This isn't Wisconsin where the biggest danger is a cheese overdose, this is Oklahoma where our entire state history has been peppered with tornado related tragedies. Our school systems, especially rural areas, are already rated in the bottom five, in the nation, for test score because the schools are so strapped for cash they cannot maintain the national lowest standards. Now, because this issue went public on a national level, and even people in other states are publicly disparing her, she's in the middle of damage control trying to put a spin on what really happened as to avoid being tarred and feathered by irate citizens. As far as I'm concerned, and most of the people in this state, mostly parents, she's showed her feathers and it's time for her to go. Oklahoman's are all for business growth but not at the expense of their children's lives. *"VIPIHOM" : Very Important Person In Her Own Mind. I gotta agree. My wife can't stand her, thinks she has it out for the poverty stricken population here. How can she, consciously, put a stop to making schools safer during tornados given the evens of May 20th 2013 but make it a point to remodel the capital? Fuck the capital, Id rather see each school with a shelter before i see the capital remodeled. Hell just use the governors mansion if its that bad 
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| Oh hell it's for the children. I get so sick of hearing this. If you are so concerned about tornado shelters for your local school go build or donate one. Just like I thought, you want someone else to build it for you. We can not protect our children from every possible thing that can go wrong. We, and I will not be included in the we, have gone so far as to put helmets on kids ridding tricycles. Yet drunk drivers still kill kids in this state every year and no outcry. It is a real heart break to pick up a mangled child from a wreck. Yes the weather took a few but not every year. Drunks kill every year. Medical mistakes by doctors and nurses kill a few each year and yet there is no calling for the stringing up of any doctors. Run for school board and get a real say in what happens in the local school. Call the board and let them know how you feel. I do. They know me by my first name and so do my local state representatives and senator. You can make a difference if you try hard enough. |
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Oh hell it's for the children. I get so sick of hearing this. If you are so concerned about tornado shelters for your local school go build or donate one. Just like I thought, you want someone else to build it for you. We can not protect our children from every possible thing that can go wrong. We, and I will not be included in the we, have gone so far as to put helmets on kids ridding tricycles. Yet drunk drivers still kill kids in this state every year and no outcry. It is a real heart break to pick up a mangled child from a wreck. Yes the weather took a few but not every year. Drunks kill every year. Medical mistakes by doctors and nurses kill a few each year and yet there is no calling for the stringing up of any doctors. Run for school board and get a real say in what happens in the local school. Call the board and let them know how you feel. I do. They know me by my first name and so do my local state representatives and senator. You can make a difference if you try hard enough. It should not be a state issue anyways...we have more than enough statutes and bureaucracy as it is. If local parents and teachers feel it is such a huge deal, fundraisers can be held and donations will more than pay for suitable weather protection. It's always one more thing that someone else needs to pay more taxes to fund someone else's dire need or the world will end. |
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Sure in some districts you could collect the money to build a big enough safe to accommodate thousands of students but having grown up in a rural and seeing many of the rural school system around the state there's no way you will ever come close to raising the money to build shelters big enough to accommodate the population of students and faculty, there is no way without some philanthropic super donation. Most schools are running on skeleton budgets as is and the teachers in oklahoma are some of the lowest paid in all of American.
There is NO way these schools can raise that kind of money on their own. That leaves the state, were talking about state schools for the vast majority so why shouldn't they take on the fund raising for this project. There's already a positive balance in undedicated accounts from a large increase in business profit over the last year (no doubt it's slated for this years Christmas party or other such self serving project. I've been in several rural school districts that honestly look like they were right out of the 1950's because they can't afford the modern furniture, teaching aids, and all the equipment larger schools take for granted. Because of the national firestorm of outrage over Gov. Fallin's attitude and obvious lack of support that erupted recently when the story weny worldwide, she's now trying to spin her words to say she approves of the project but wants to find different methods to afford it such as the lottery. Why doesn't she care? Her kids are adults now so she "has no dog in the fight" so why give a rats ass? The profits from the lottery were supposed to be used to fund the school system which when the lottery rules were being written, were described as extremely underfunded but suddenly now they are capable of paying for their own shelters, uh huh. It's been a constant thorn in our states politicians because the school systems are years into the lottery but they aren't getting any money. Nope, our state government should be gung ho to help the schools by providing funds to build these shelters for school systems who are unable do it on their own and add however much is needed to the budget for schools that need partial funding. If the state isn't interested in investing to protect our children and Oklahoma's future then they have joined the long line of politicians who have forsaken the average citizen to increase their own importance and financial situation. |
| I live in Moore, my kids go to Moore schools. I dont think the state should pay for shelters and I know people who lost everything in the tornado including lives. Those are millions of dollars that could be spent on much better things than shelters for the schools. Hell, you could put a shelter in every home for what it would cost to put shelters in these schools, and save more lives than those shelters would. And if we did do the shelters in schools, are they open to the public? Do you turn people away? Would the school be liable if it did? Would people be endangering themselves rushing to the school shelter if they didnt have a personal shelter? I feel for those who were affected by the tornadoes. I was on the verge of a breakdown as I couldnt get a hold of my kids or their caregiver that day. I knew they were supposed to be in a shelter, but it was in the path of the tornado, and could not reach other family members who lived in the path of the tornado. Two family members had the tornado pass within houses of them. But I do not put the responsibility of protecting my children from acts of God on the taxpayers. DHS could use the money to revamp and save many more childrens lives than those storm shelters would. More police officers on the street, or not releasing inmates early would save more lives. Use that money to help feed the kids that have to go with out lunch.As a parent, the hardest thing I have had to come to terms with, is I cannot protect them from everything, God help me, I will protect them from anything and everything I can, but there is a God, he has a plan, and nothing I, nor the government with their budgets and safety plans can do anything to change that. I would rather see that money spent where its needed, rather than on the 0.0000003% chance that a tornado would hit a school, while they are there. |