One more story from Dayton, then I'm going to bed.

Just down the road from the hotel is the former world headquarters for NCR - once known as "National Cash Register" and now a $6B business making ATM machines. They've been a Dayton icon and employer for over a century - the company was established in 1884.

Well now they are a Georgia icon. A year ago, that state lured Dayton's only Fortune 500 company out of Ohio. The unions having apparently killed the rest.

Anyway, the Mayor of Columbus Georgia applied for stimlus funds to help build a plant the town promised NCR:

Although Columbus, Ga., Mayor Jim Wetherington said he does not know if the federal government will approve his request, he wants stimulus money to help refurbish a 340,000 square foot facility and construct a 100,000 square foot building for NCR to make ATMs.

"We have applied for stimulus funding, but we haven't heard anything whether we're going to get the money we applied for,'' he said. "If we don't, then local government would have to foot the bill.''

Wetherington said he "personally wouldn't have a problem'' using federal stimulus dollars to lure jobs from one state to another, although he acknowledged that "other people might. This money that we've applied for is what President Obama said is going to be available.''

Well it was shovel ready. But silly Mayor, stimulus funds are for unions. The application was disapproved.