Before any CMC Econ. Dev. Auth. starts requesting boatloads of tax dollars to create a handful of non-gov't. jobs, do a study. How many year-round, living-wage, private-sector jobs are there currently in the county? Don't include the hospital (it relies heavily on Medicare/Medicaid) or public education. Next, how many working age adults (18-65) live in the county? The difference between these two numbers is the excess labor, or less likely, the shortage of labor. Instead of providing welfare and planned unemployment for the excess, encourage people to leave by stopping gov't. subsidization.