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Posted on 02/18/2015 9:15:56 AM PST by EveningStar
In the 1930s, tens of thousands of farmers, mostly from Oklahoma, fled the Dust Bowl for California with hopes of a better life. Today it is ironic that California’s Farmers (Farmer Brothers coffee company, that is) has announced that it is fleeing our state for a less expensive destination that includes Oklahoma on the short list. Any humor, however, will no doubt be lost on the 350 employees who are about to lose their South Bay jobs paying $40,000 to $80,000.
Farmer Brothers, a fixture in California for more than 100 years, is just another of a long list of firms that, fed up with California’s high taxes and anti-business environment, have left for less costly states. Other recent refugees include Chevron, Nestle, Sony, Charles Schwab, Occidental Petroleum, Toyota, Campbell Soup, Nissan and Comcast, all of which have moved all or a significant portion of their work force out of state.
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Did Chevron move out of Danville? I hadn’t heard that.
If a 100+ year old company can’t make it in Cal, what is the future for biz in general ?
They did move to both locations from San Francisco due to the city wage tax (IIRC), Bechtel for the same reason as well.
“Did Chevron move out of Danville? I hadn’t heard that.”
They are in Bishop Ranch which is in San Ramon. Big place, with guard gate. Still has a sign and cars in the parking lot.
The company I used to work for planed to build an asphalt terminal in Stockton.
By the time the state air board, the county board and the neighborhood board got done with us, we built the plant in Reno.
The Good thing about this is that it raised the IQ level of both states!
And Governor Brown said, “Good! Fewer people on my beach!”
Didn't an old knife company exit Kali a few years ago, Buck or Barlow?
The Democrats hide behind environmentalism. They’re just elitists who want “all those other people” to leave. Dead or alive, don’t much matter to them.
California logic drive out businesses by over taxing and bring in illegals give them driver license to jam up the freeways welcome to the stoner state.
“Occidental Petroleum”
The guy that used to run the place was a big time leftie. I guess business takes precedent.
Fond memories of Farmer Bros. coffee. Drove west to trout fish in Montana in 1984. Rolled into Jackson Hole and had dinner at the Silver $$ Bar, which included rainbow trout stuffed with crab imperial, and the best coffee I ever tasted.
I inquired and learned it was FB. I bought a 10 lb bag from a FB route man. Enjoyed it at our campfires in an old percolator with mountain spring water, from Glacier south, and down the Big Hole River and over to the Beaver Head.
Brought most of it back to Pennsyltucky, but never could duplicate that taste; and decided it was the spring water as much as the coffee.
On subsequent snowmobile trips, hunting, etc. I always marveled at the good coffee we were served; but almost never find it here in the east. I think it’s the water.
It was Buck, and they moved to Post Falls, Idaho.
Moonbeam and his demonrat cohorts are working diligently to drive industry out of California while at the same time drawing in as many illegals as possible. Only a demonrat would think that would lead to a sound tax base. Moonbeam has never held an office that wasn’t worse off after his term than before.
Wait a flipping minute! Companies don't create jobs! Who are they trying to kid here? Where is Hillary to set these folks straight on economic realities? < /sarcasm >
” Moonbeam has never held an office that wasn’t worse off after his term than before.”
Good ol Medfly Brown
Brown was a great mayor for Oakland.
Sorry folks, but he was. He walked the neighborhoods, at night, and he brought warring factions together, and Oakland was on a real upswing until he term limited out.
Oakland was on the mend. He left, they elected another ‘brother’ and the cronism and crap came right back.
He would have been a legendary mayor had he been allowed to stay on there.
If only Californians had followed the old adage “If it’s Brown, flush it down” we would be far better off!
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