More goofyness from the Guv'na

Gov. Ed Rendell says state will help Harley-Davidson stay in Pa.

Monday August 03, 2009, 10:04 AM

YORK, Pa. -- Gov. Ed Rendell says the state will not let a Harley-Davidson plant in central Pennsylvania leave without a fight.
At a rally Sunday inside Sovereign Bank Stadium in York, Rendell told a crowd of plant workers and motorcycle enthusiasts that officials are designing a plan to help the company stay. The package includes help with job training and infrastructure, low-interest loans and $15 million for upgrades.
Harley-Davidson said in May its facility in Springettsbury Township is not cost-effective and that it might move its operations. More than 2,000 local jobs are at stake.
The rally Sunday followed a 50-mile ride of support by hundreds of bikers through York and Adams counties.

The state can't even get a budget passed to pay the state employees, yet can find money to bail out an outdated, overbloated private manufacturer? Outrageous. The average Harley costs almost $20,000 and yet they need state subsidies to upgrade their plant? I say let them take their junk back to Milwaukee.