The Swearing In.

April 1^st will be a day in New Hampshire history.

A Day In New Hampshire HistoryDRED Commissioner Jeff Rose gets sworn in.DRED Commissioner Jeff Rose.

I’ll have to be honest upfront from what I’ve seen of the Hassan Administration and her Governor’s Council the best that can be hoped for is that the voters see how little that they’re getting from the ambition that exists in Concord.

Darkness Is The Absence Of Light. Notice I Didn't Say Anything About Leadership.Ambition is the right word here.

Notice I didn’t say anything about leadership.

I’m also looking forward to any responses that I get from Commissioner Rose that I submitted via Governor’s Councilor Burton.

I’ll post them here on NHInsider.com.

Jobs Will Be Created For New Hampshire.

Yesterday I filed comments with the Vermont Agency of Transportation relative to their state rail plan and their solicitation of comments about their state rail plan.

Being from New Hampshire I expected my comments to be rejected as obviously I'm not a resident of that state why would my ideas and statements even be relevant to what they're doing on that side of the Connecticut River.

My comments were accepted.

I won't bore you with all the details but I made a short argument as to why Vermont should be making more effort to acquire abandoned railroad lines in that state and then leasing them out to private companies some of these lines actually extend over into New Hampshire.

Then I made an arguement over the need for intermodal expansion and how small to medium sized companies would be able to take advantage of this and in turn lead to economic growth and jobs.

This is a video that demonstrates this via the Panama Canal. This Central American country may seem like it is far away but it really isn't.

How I'd Create Jobs For NH.

One of the things I did this winter was to participate as a public member in the creation of the NH State Rail Plan as advanced by NHDOT and their contracted consultants.

Today, I’m very pleased to report that my ideas were not only incorporated but expanded upon and which, if done, will create very significant economic development and jobs for New Hampshire.

So what are my ideas?

This will be short- but in a word intermodal and the creation of freight movement and matrix systems that incorporate railroad, trucking, economies of scale and how this is ultimately used to lower costs for shippers, receivers and any manufacturing or retail venture that adds value. I don’t think it’s unreasonable that my ideas, if done, will create at least $15 million dollars in tax base expansion and at least 250 new jobs a year statewide.

Transportation is an integral role in the creation and retention of jobs. Yet somehow this is going largely ignored by political candidates. Kevin Smith isn't the only one.

So why am I telling you this?

Now compare my ideas with that of Gubernatorial Candidate Kevin Smith:

Economic Development and Job Growth

“By leveraging existing state resources, we can create partnerships between companies and the state's educational institutions to strategically put students on careers paths in the emerging job sectors of the 21st century. This effort can be extended to aggressively recruit CEO's and small businesses to move their operations, in part or in whole, from Massachusetts and other New England states to New Hampshire through strategic tax incentives and smart marketing of our built-in economic advantages.”- Source Kevin Smith for Governor Website.

What exactly does this mean?  What emerging job sectors?

Strategic tax incentives in an interesting idea; but how does the candidate propose to finance the lost tax revenue from these tax incentives?  Imagine the finance committee raising the BPT to fund these tax credits.

Smart marketing.  This certainly plays well doesn’t it.

Vis a Vis.       FLUFF.

Save Money. Create Jobs

This  Maine has helped New Hampshire with Economic Development. And they've done a good job.is is an idea I’ve been thinking for some time.

A short history lesson:

-Back in the day of the stagecoach northern New Hampshire was a major crossroads of commerce whether this was to Vermont, Canada and beyond. What is now U.S. Route 302 was a major route of this commerce and the construction and initial maintenance thereof was paid for by Maine because New Hampshire refused to provide funding for it.

-The history of Berlin, NH is filled with finance of projects and infrastructure from sources outside of New Hampshire mainly from eastern Canada and Maine. This includes capital items like paper machines and natural gas pipelines.

It would seem that Maine would have more of an interest in economic development in northern New Hampshire than DRED does so why not let them have this responsibility and save NH taxpayer money at the same time. Examples include:

Eliminate the DRED position in northern New Hampshire including office space and travel expenses:     Savings to N.H. taxpayers.           $122,000.00 year.

Eliminate all Economic Development Functions of North Country Council Inc. (Regional Planning).     Savings to N.H. taxpayers.           $850,000.00 year.

Eliminate Economic Development Councils like the Grafton, Coos Economic Development Councils.      Savings to N.H., taxpayers.         $750,000.00 year.

Total Savings to N.H. taxpayers.  $1,722,000.00 year.

Then sign a contract with the Maine Department of Economic Development to perform the same functions as the expenses above for $250,000.00 a year with a $75,000.00 performance bonus for every taxbase increase that results in either 50 fulltime jobs or taxable property improvements in excess of $2.5 million dollars.

With history as a basis imagine what might happen.

New Hampshire taxpayers still save money.

How To Create Jobs.

I'll have to admit it when I first found this video on UTUBE I almost didn't watch it my instant thought "Here we go another speech by Sarah Palin, Jennifer Horn or the hybrid offshoot politician Kevin Smith."

I'm wrong on this count this is actually Christy Clark the Premier of British Columbia, Canada and she is creating jobs lots of them.

Imagine New Hampshire elected officials having a speech like this one with content like this.

It isn't going to happen.

I think this video also shows what happens when policymakers and market makers work together toward projects for the future and a world that is waiting...

Canada is doing what New Hampshire isn't.