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Tacoma Production Moves To San Antonio Toyota Plant (Too Bad California)
WOAI Radio ^ | 08/27/2009 | Jim Forsyth

Posted on 08/28/2009 3:43:07 AM PDT by ElephantinTexas

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Word this morning is that it will also add another 1000 jobs when you add in the suppliers.

While California is having a garage sale, Texas is producing more jobs.

1 posted on 08/28/2009 3:43:07 AM PDT by ElephantinTexas
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"This announcement reflects the depth of the ties between Toyota and Texas while underscoring the strength of our state's workforce and job climate," Governor Rick Perry said.

No kiddin'....

2 posted on 08/28/2009 3:47:01 AM PDT by freebilly ( No wonder all the left has a boner for Obama.... There's "Cialis" in "SoCIALISt")
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To: ElephantinTexas

In a word...Taxes.


3 posted on 08/28/2009 3:47:37 AM PDT by A. Morgan (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. Lawrence)
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Read ‘em and weep, California....


4 posted on 08/28/2009 3:47:39 AM PDT by freebilly ( No wonder all the left has a boner for Obama.... There's "Cialis" in "SoCIALISt")
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Haha.

Suck it, Kookifornistan.


5 posted on 08/28/2009 3:58:18 AM PDT by EricT. ("Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government." -George Washington)
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The San Francisco plant has 4500 employees and was San Fran's largest, employer.

Isn't that Pelosi's turf?

I think that Toyota's plan to move speaks volumes and will send a message to other companies to move or start their business in Texas.

6 posted on 08/28/2009 4:09:16 AM PDT by ElephantinTexas
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Wonder what 16 term rat atheist Rep. Pete Stark has to say about Toyota picking up their marbles and leaving Fremont for San Antonio? Crickets.... The East Bay needs a reality check, pronto.


7 posted on 08/28/2009 4:18:00 AM PDT by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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What is happening to California? That’s the second major auto plant this month!


8 posted on 08/28/2009 4:22:14 AM PDT by RoadTest (Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Psalm 129:5)
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Idiot Stark spoke on Rat care:

A key House liberal suggested Thursday that party moderates who've pushed for changes in health care legislation are "brain dead" and out for insurance company campaign donations. Moderate Blue Dog Democrats "just want to cause trouble," said Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., who heads the health subcommittee on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. "They're for the most part, I hate to say brain dead, but they're just looking to raise money from insurance companies and promote a right-wing agenda that is not really very useful in this whole process,"

9 posted on 08/28/2009 4:25:35 AM PDT by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised that we could see the San Antonio, TX plant expand even further and we could see the Corolla production start there by 2012.


10 posted on 08/28/2009 4:44:24 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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Reality check:

First, Toyota could not keep both plants open given the volume of the Tundra and Tacoma.

Second, if you build pickups....build them in Texas because that state/region buys more pickups than any other.

Third, the Corolla is made in Canada, so the California plant was pointless and outdated.

Fourth, who wants to keep a plant open in the most car-hostile state in the nation?


11 posted on 08/28/2009 4:51:52 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: dfwright; Clayton; shadeaud; VRWCTexan; ravingnutter; txrangerette; evets; planekT; billorites; ...

Good Morning! I’m still around. Thought I’d ping ya’.


12 posted on 08/28/2009 4:52:21 AM PDT by ElephantinTexas
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Reality check, Part II:

Fifth, taxes are much lower in Texas.

Sixth, Texas is a right to work state, so screw the unions!

13 posted on 08/28/2009 4:58:45 AM PDT by SpeedRacer (Where's your records, B-HO? What are you hiding?)
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Good! I hope California suffers for all the disasters that the state has placed on the rest of the country.


14 posted on 08/28/2009 5:07:12 AM PDT by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
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In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised that we could see the San Antonio, TX plant expand even further and we could see the Corolla production start there by 2012.

That is already being talked about this morning on moving the Corolla production up in Canada down here.

The plant here can produce 160,000 trucks a year without running a second shift. With adding the Tacoma, they hope to put out 180,000 trucks so I'm sure that the extra $100 Million Toyota is going to put into the plant here, the Corolla production will be in those plans.

15 posted on 08/28/2009 5:21:00 AM PDT by ElephantinTexas
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Fourth, who wants to keep a plant open in the most car-hostile state in the nation?

California is hostile to business in general.....

16 posted on 08/28/2009 5:21:14 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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Pelosi, Feinstein and Boxer tried to bribe Toyota to stay with stimulus money, but failed.


17 posted on 08/28/2009 5:30:59 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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.....on-site suppliers will also be adding new jobs,......

Conversely, California will loose another 1,000 jobs of vendors.

These will be across the board and include all types of administrators, clerks and office types. The California companies will just be gone.


18 posted on 08/28/2009 5:35:11 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khitab)
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......The East Bay needs a reality check, pronto....

What is really needed is a massively destructive earth quake. That is the only real solution to the plague


19 posted on 08/28/2009 5:36:46 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khitab)
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Texas is a great refuge right now, but the demographics are going to cause a problem there without action on immigration.
We need to get the borders closed.


20 posted on 08/28/2009 5:37:59 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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