What California's liberal Legislature forgot to consider is that the California taxpayers they were shafting would pack up and leave.
Posted on 02/28/2009 7:04:04 AM PST by Bill Dupray
I fled California 30 years ago. I have been back a few times for weddings, funerals, reunions, etc. (I still have some family and friends left there), but I would never live there again. Going there now is like going to another country. The English language is seldom heard in many parts of the state. The crime? Way beyond out of control. California is finished.
Agree, but with reservations.
I really don’t understand the over-reliance on “industrial” or “manufacturing” workforce in articles like these. What they do not say is the huge growth in software and chip design related jobs in California. Perhaps these people don’t understand high tech...
“The Golden State -- which a decade ago was the booming technology capital of the world -- has been done in by two decades of chronic overspending, overregulating and a hyperprogressive tax code …”
One might argue that’s this is a politically biased assessment. So here are some facts, not assessments:
-- California’s state expenditures grew from $104 billion in 2003 to $145 billion in 2008.
-- California has the worst credit rating in the nation.
-- California has the fourth highest unemployment rate in the nation, 9.3 percent -- higher even than the car manufacturing state of Michigan.
-- California has the second highest home foreclosure rate.
-- California’s tax-paying middle class is leaving the state. California’s net loss last year in state-to-state migration exceeded every other state's. New York, another left-run state, was second.
-- Since 2000, California’s job growth rate -- which in the late 1970s was many times higher than the national average -- has lagged behind the national average by almost 20 percent.
-- California has lost 25 percent of its industrial work force since 2001. . . .
The left is bringing the greatest state to its knees.
I’m determined to become one, very sad about it but that’s reality.
What California's liberal Legislature forgot to consider is that the California taxpayers they were shafting would pack up and leave.
Jack Cashill wrote a book about how the left destroyed California, “What’s the Matter with California?”
Mark
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I’m so glad to be out of MI. Can I get an “AMEN!”?
You are out of order. Please refrain from blanket insults.
That’s a big 10-4! I sorely miss the great lake state, but I’m sure glad to not be in the whirlpool circling the drain. Hopefully when I’m ready to retire there will be some good, cheap lakefront property there!
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