Jackson Jambalaya

They better bring their workforce with them.

You can't get anybody to do shit around here.

Just more Jackson residents moving to the burbs and pushing decent folk even further away. Nissan has been terrible for the area.

I am going to salute Nissan and the Nissan workforce. Obviously they are meeting every goal set by this global company and they do it in very hostile conditions: white people who insist that black workers cannot do the job (just read the comments here) while the Canton facility builds every model Nissan makes. Union folks who come down for a vote every few months and make it seem like Nissan is one big plantation - the workers reject that argument every time by wide margins. Meanwhile, the Koch crowd insists that the state gave away too much money to land Nissan (would love to see payroll and tax figures over the last 20 years). And now they are tasked with electric vehicles that will take the Canton plant into the next 50 years. Great job, guys!

... in very hostile conditions: white people who insist that black workers cannot do the job (just read the comments here) ...

Straw horse. BS.

Lmao @ 3 comments

Will Tate Reeves be depending on Biden to build the EV charging stations?

This is chicken feed only to retain workers meanwhile in Louisiana they spend billions and create new jobs every month. They aren’t eliminating the income tax either! The only jobs Tater is creating is for relocation companies.

Enjoy the latest MDA press release where they act as if they did something.

EV is great until I look at global copper, lithium, and graphite production, then the added electrical grid load. Unlike China we cannot burn coal. But nice Government Tax credit. Hope Nissan prospers, with not so good products.

I don't see any new jobs, just states they will "upskill" existing ones.

I'm proud when I here something positive for our state and our area. Sorry, I'm just not in the mood to nitpick what seems like a pretty good announcement.

6:27 just go along with the press release” blowing smoke up the people asses,”the Governor knows what he’s talking about! Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.

Great job, now when can I apply and get one of those Jobs, jobs, jobs?

Tell the governor to use some of that money to build Jackson State a new stadium in the capital city.

@4:44 AM
“This is chicken feed only to retain workers meanwhile in Louisiana they spend...”

First, I’m gonna provide you with ONE period and TWO commas.
Afterward, I want you to re-read your sentence aloud and then go back and place the period and commas in the sentence.

Will Reeves recognize and thank Musgrove for getting Nissan to Mississippi?

Twenty years ago the residents of Canton were told by our mayor that once Nissan came to town everyone would have good paying jobs, even that 20 year old who sits on his front porch every morning swilling a quart of Colt 45. Now 20 years later the only thing that has changed is that 20 year old is now a 40 year old who sits on his front porch every morning swilling a quart of Budweiser (he can afford better beer now thanks to Biden). There are plenty of jobs for those that want to work.

@6:09
It doesn’t matter one bit how much more EV production pollutes compared to a Honda Fit. What matters is how good EVs make people feel. It’s all about feeling. Tesla is more valuable than Walmart, Toyota, and McDonalds because it feels good to own Tesla stock. The stock itself is Tesla’s most profitable product. Just ask any redditor.

Tater Tots statements push the truth envelope. He sounded like a used-car salesman.

Keeping jobs is better than losing them. Quit complaining. If the government would quit all the handouts for housing allowance, power subsidies, EBT cards then more people would go to work.

@6:09 - it still beats giving billions of dollars to repressive regimes in the Middle East and Russia and subsidizing the slow death of our planet.

Questionable whether or not Budweiser is superior to Colt 45.

Get over it. Reeves wins in 2023.

Jobs!!! BS! More BS from Tater and Corporate America.

"Looming over the transition to electric vehicles is the fact that they have substantially fewer moving parts than gasoline-powered ones and require less labor to manufacture — about 30 percent less, according to figures from Ford Motor.Oct 28, 2021"

Don't the 'Murican's For Mah Prosperity Not Yores" ever get tired of blowing smoke?

Bet Tater and Ganja Gunn give them even more tax breaks, too.

For every new job that's one more mark for the scratch off machine. Get it !!

Grammar police are going to hate it when Louisiana gets that battery plant.

Nissan vehicles are not what they used to be. They used to be on par with Toyota and Honda, but not anymore. Those CVT transmissions that they use are total garbage. I personally would not buy a Nissan, especially an EV, but to each his own. This country's transition to EVs is going to come back to bite us in the rear one day. I'm not giving up my gas burners.

I’m not giving up my gas burners
You will when they add enough taxes to make gasoline cost $15 a gallon.
“Smart” Electric Vehicles, and restrictions on travel, are an integral part of the “Great Reset” agenda.
TBTB have salivated over the concept of a self driving vehicle that they can control. This will allow for the adoption invisible fencing, like a dog, that restricts where you can go. They will have this technology widely established and fully accepted by the time today’s kindergartners are driving age.

Bill Clinton made that happen

I'm still not buying a Nissan that comes from that plant.

@11:08 EVs don't have transmissions.

“Upskilling” and “help ensure” are deliberately chosen hedge words. If there were new, quantifiable jobs, MDA would fall on itself to say so explicitly. This is a giant infusion of money to “help ensure” people might keep their jobs. Which is good. But it’s not the same as new jobs. It’s paying more money to keep the same jobs we already paid for. Again, good not to lose jobs. And again, not the same as new jobs.

Do not allow this to happen GovTater.
Republicans - unite. Mobilize against this.
We don’t need no “foreign rice burning lectric lbtqgreen energy Biden bumper sticker rainbow” vehicles here.
GovTater, please tell us your still our general in the war against this China commie green electric Biden s***show.
I trust you my General GovTater. So, I believe you’ve secretly instructed our republican trained workforce soldiers at Nissan to really put good ol gas burning internal combustion American horsepower under them hoods.
Otherwise, this is everything you are against, right GovTater?

Here's a tip. Don't like Nissans? Don't purchase one.

But please stop with the garbage that those jobs in Canton don't help the metro area and the state.

George Jetson be like ..................

Anyone know how much automated tooling and how many assembly robots $500 million will buy, especially if you don't buy 'em from Mississippi companies? Just thinking out loud, but at some point, machines will build these vehicles, which will just drive themselves to the 10-story vending carousel. Sure, they'll need a few people to maintain the robofactory...at least until the maintenance robots are delivered. Again, just thinking out loud, but who might you guess is smarter, Tater and crew or upper management (and hired consultants) at one of the largest corporations in its industry?

1:32 P.M. My 2005 Nissan Titan has 265,000+ miles and still going strong. I've spent very little money on it for repairs. My next truck will be another Nissan.

Allow me to correct the post at 8:22, as follows:

Musgrove was governor when Nissan announced. That's all. Nissan came here in spite of the toe-fetish-guv. Musgrove is not credited with bringing a single prospect to this state in four years.