panbient wrote on May 29, 2012, 16:51:

Creston wrote on May 29, 2012, 16:11:
I've heard the same rhetoric here in Tulsa when they were trying to lure Boeing here. "Think of all the jobs it would create!" (jobs that none of you can get because Boeing's own people already have them!)

That's still 500 more people coming into a (likely economically depressed) area, buying gas, groceries, homes, rent, cars, starting families, living lives. It might not be direct jobs for the locals but where are those specialists spending most of their paychecks?