Fear for the future - After Schwarzenegger, already-bad business climate may worsen

San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 8/10/08 | Editorial

[Lizavetta]

but California is still a wonderful, beautiful place to live in most regions. So try and cool the hyperbole please.

What you said. It's quite fabulous up here in the foothills of Placerville.

[NormsRevenge]

Oh he’s “helping business” all righty, his globalist friends to the exclusion of all else. They’ll do just fine picking the bones until they’re the last one’s left standing. Once that’s done, they’ll discover “deregulation” and cash in all over again.

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I take it you’ve seen this script before.

When a majority of folks are so disconnected from reality, it would be wise as well to remove them from the voter rolls as well and vote the scalawags and scoundrels out of power. (but when did making a wise decision get ya elected here) ;-)

[Carry_Okie]

I take it you’ve seen this script before.

Note how Soros crashed Argentina's currency and then bought the bulk of its arable land. The behavior of the Russian oligarchs was similar. It's happened after most every war and economic collapse in history. In fact, I would argue that the bulk of wars were precipitated to take advantage of the same mechanics.

Induce self-inflicted pain and buy a local monopoly cheap. Then cash in.

[SierraWasp]

"It can't get worse, in fact it will only get better. Replacing a Republican who governs like a Democrat with a Democrat who governs like a Democrat will allow Republican legislators to unite in opposition and speak out against every hair-brained socialist scheme - which they aren't doing with Arnold now."

ElkGroveDan...
IS RIGHT!!!

[Carry_Okie]

The California environmentalists have figured out how to regulate every aspect of the stream of commerce.

They aren't that smart.

They had a blueprint.

[calcowgirl]

Oh he's "helping business" all righty, his globalist friends to the exclusion of all else. They'll do just fine picking the bones until they're the last one's left standing. Once that's done, they'll discover "deregulation" and cash in all over again.

It's been stunning to watch the progress they have made just since 2003.

Stunning... and maddening.

[Amerigomag]

It can't get worse, in fact it will only get better.

In central California, the inland counties (Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern) have turned into third world barrios. The central coast counties (Monterey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara have isolated pockets of the increasingly common Mexican ghetto near agriculture centers but, by and large, have been spared by gentrification.

The Santa Barbara/Goleta/Monticeto/Isla Vista urban area is an excellent example of the intervention of gentrification. The restaurants, hotels, gas stations and estates are all staffed by cheap, Mexican labor but most of the help can't afford to live in-town. The city of SB has two tiny barrios and there are some moderately priced apartments in Isal Vista but most of the foreign labor is forced to commute on US 101 each day, in their Honda Civics, from the barrios of rural Ventura County to the service jobs in SB.