Jackson Jambalaya

Gabriel is a great example of the drive required for success. He will do very well in life because he has decided to do well in life. He doesn't wait for a handout, look for others to direct him, or go with the popular flow of society. A great example for others to follow.

Someone told me there's no way he's giving away that tequila he caresses so suggestively in that cringey commercial.
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He doesn’t wait for a handout? What about the 9 Million Dollar Tax Handout? I love all these “self made” men getting tax breaks, Gubmint subsidies, and more Gubmint money that then think they should run the Gubmint. Farm Welfare. Corporate Welfare. Rocket Welfare. Restaurant Welfare. Now Golf and Likker Welfare.

I would have never invested my $$ in things he has in MS, but more power to him.

Very good points, 8:57! However, it was hard to see them, with your cutesy spellings. 'Gubmint' has been cringeworthy for at least three decades. Back to your points, though. It should be illegal, for towns to pay businesses and developers to build or locate there. If the market won't bear it, a town doesn't need it. Such incentives attract the unneeded, the unwanted, and the unscrupulous. Likewise, a business shouldn't be able to EXTORT money from a developer.

A now-departed metro developer, a brilliant man from a notorious family in the Northeast, once regaled us with what he said to the President one of the few remaining luxe department store chains (which was promising to put a store in one of his 'Lifestyle Centers', if only he'd give them seven figures, as an incentive). "When I was growing, up, all my male relatives were in prison, for doing to others, what you're trying to do to me (extort money). But thank you for considering us!"

Goddamn. You motherfuckers would bitch if a business came in and gave everyone $100,000 salaries.

"Such incentives attract the unneeded, the unwanted, and the unscrupulous. "
Speaking of whom - how are those Atlanta Braves doing this year? Don't seem to hear much about them round these parts anymore.....

It’s a lovely place and I wish him the best!

3:34 pm you made me smile, most commentators on this blog are mean! They need to meet me at the VA Jackson 6 floor Monday morning to taste a shot of my ole-Smokey moonshine, before I go up to see my shrink! I be feeling real good!!

Top golf is great but investing in the old Drury was dumb. I don’t care how many incentives he was given.

I don't think some know how TIF's work.

I haven't listened to the entire podcast yet, but did he say anything about the Meadowbrook McRaes project. He had told several residents in the area over a year ago that it was a definite go. Since then, nothing has happened on the property and it continues to be an eyesore and drag on property values.

He did, you should listen to the entire podcast. Is it a bigger eyesore right now than it was before he bulldozed the blighted building?

Get the Hertz Group on the podcast to see how their investment in Jackson worked out, but this guy is gonna save the day lol.

Was entertaining until the $150mil comment...yeah gonna need to see proof of funds.