[fhayek]

Companies who are based in areas unfriendly to business must either move or go out of business. Government tries to mask hostility to business through cronyism and subsidies, but, doing so drives out taxpayers. Either way, its unsustainable. But try to convince a politician of this.

[Texicanus]

If his business is profitable in California, he will be more profitable in Texas due to fewer regulations, cheaper factory and office space, and a non-union workforce. If he is a liberal or does not pay a decent/living wage he best stay in California.

[PAR35]

As the article points out, Los Angeles has 5 Fortune 500 headquarters. Plano lags far behind with only 2.

[TChad]

Ouch. Down the socialist drain goes LA.

It's a shame. The city still has its own peculiar beauty.

[Gen.Blather]

I used to work for a 1960’s hippie newspaper editor who wore granny glasses and drove a Volvo. I wrote articles that featured the businesses who advertised heavily with the paper. I asked her why she had taken something out of my most recent article. Her face formed the “ewww” expression and she said, as if handed a turd, “it just seemed so pro-business!”

There are now several generations of people like her to whom business is a dirty word. I laughed (to myself) when she was laid off. The entire paper was staffed with nearly identical people and they all hated business. The paper has since been sold many times and its readership has collapsed to the point where they give away more free copies than they sell so they can say they got the advertisements to X% of the population.

Companies and towns and people with this attitude deserve to fail.

[bamahead]

When one considers what L.A. used to be — a beacon of aerospace, clothing, food and film production, with the world's busiest ports — and what it is now, which is a major exporter of old clothes and scrap metal recycled by the Chinese, it's a sad, sad picture.



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[kingu]

Irwindale is a town of 1,400 people. Which means the local population has extremely strong pull in elections and of course, when one demands service, they get it immediately.

I drove by that plant daily, watching it though construction and had open windows each late summer and early autumn, hopeful I'd finally breathe in this supposedly foul odor. All I ever smelled was other vehicle emissions.

To me, I think a local resident wanted to be paid off and they didn't get their way. So far as I have read, I've never seen a single independent verification of any extraordinary emissions from the factory. And honestly, once this gets before a real judge, a whole lot of taxpayer money will likely be awarded to the company to cover their years long legal expense.

Likely more than enough to cover the cost of a new factory in Texas.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

HuH? The company is not going anywhere - they arrived at an agreement (i.e. greased some palms) and are staying in town. This is an OLD article.

 

 

[r_barton]

Here is one of my uses for Sriracha sauce:

Sweet and Spicy Peanut Dipping Sauce

4 tablespoons peanut butter (chunky or regular)
2 tablespoon salad oil
4 tablespoons soy sauce
2 or 3 tablespoons granulated sugar (to taste)
1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar or rice vinegar
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1/2 to 1 teaspoon Sriracha hot chili sauce (to taste)

Mix ingredients well. Serve as a dipping sauce
or over noodles, white rice, pot stickers, meatballs, pasta, etc.