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stay put, instead of constantly moving from community to community? Just recently, three firms which once provided, supposedly, a broadened tax base and employment opportunities in Orange have closed up and moved away. Culpeper has experienced several such decisions recently.
Can it really be that these Nice Clean Industries are merely floating around looking for the most generous host community, and once having exhausted all possible benefits that can be extracted, moving onto another willing host? Is there more to the Nice Clean Industry theory than meets the eye?
A United States Department of Agriculture study conducted in recent years in the MidSouth concluded that except for special cases, bringing in an industrial operation to a rural, agricultural setting can often wind up with more costs than benefits. Unless the pure creation of jobs is the overriding consideration, the study concluded, a farming community might be far better off sticking to farming.
These are things that should receive a lot more careful thought than they’ve gotten so far. Merely to parrot a catchword phrase—Nice Clean Industry—is not the same thing as analyzing local needs against realistic, possible local solutions. The solution, or at least part of the solution, might well be Nice Clean Industry, but then again, strengthening the Nice Clean Industry we already have—Agriculture, in all its phases— might be an even better solution. We think it is. □
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