Betcha California will take all 5 million of them they keep talking about
Here's what they will look like.
Posted on 09/06/2009 10:51:41 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
As California's population expanded dramatically after World War II and the state constructed a world-class freeway system, the state became famous for its car culture.
Detroit saw opportunity, not only adopting California name places as monikers for its products (Catalina and Ventura, for example) but also establishing design studios in Southern California and opening auto assembly lines.
Those auto plants have closed, one by one, victims of consolidation, cost-cutting and foreign competition. Last month, Toyota announced that it would shutter the last of them, a partnership with General Motors called New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., after GM pulled out.
Not coincidentally, the demise of NUMMI paralleled the plunge in new car sales in what used to be car-crazy California, from more than 2 million vehicles a year to less than a million this year – the lowest level since 1975.
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Manufacturing accounted for 20 percent of California's employment in 1980. Even the high-tech explosion in the 1980s and 1990s failed to stop its erosion to less than 10 percent today, about 1.3 million jobs. The current recession has hit manufacturing especially hard; industrial jobs are down by nearly 600,000 since 2001.
The Milken Institute weighed in a few months ago with an extensive report on the rise and fall of manufacturing in California. It concluded: "Our research shows that manufacturing – both traditional and high-tech – still drives California's economy in many ways, but the state is losing ground to other states and nations because of its regulatory climate, tax burden, and reputation as a difficult and costly place to do business."
Milken, bolstering the pleas of the California Manufacturing and Technology Association, called for streamlining regulatory processes, improving job training and forming private-public partnerships to make investment in manufacturing more attractive.
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Yep, those things will kill a thriving economy every time!
“the state is losing ground to other states and nations because of its regulatory climate, tax burden, and reputation as a difficult and costly place to do business.”
Who knew? May we should send this to the California legislature.
Just Who is crazy enough to setup a manufacturing Plant in California? The golden Egg was not enough for the Rats they made a feast on the Goose.
California can thank the democratic party and their policies for this sad situation. The GOP is not much better either. The state is truly a mess.
California now has plenty of room for all those new “green” jobs the Obama adminstration is yacking about
Betcha California will take all 5 million of them they keep talking about
Finally they closed the doors and left. They could ship product from the Midwest cheaper and with less hassle.
“Reputation”? How many businesses are going to California and how many are leaving or planning to?
Companies who make something here in the US, especially from raw materials from the US, should be getting the royal treatment from every taxing authority. Instead they hound them in ways only government can do and pretty soon they are simply gone away. Leaving behind a lot of jobless people who are forced to turn to the very government that cost them their jobs in the first place. Kind of ironic!
There was line in the great hippie tune of the 60’s “Where Have all the Flowers Gone” that went “When will they every learn?” They didn't know how prophetic it would turn out to be!
Maybe they should try raising taxes again. That always seems to work. /S
It’s really no different than Zimbabwe. Their clearing out the productive with
regulations and taxes, rather than guns.
Next, the power struggle amongst themselves
California had factories?
once upon a time..
Arnold had a statewide “garage sale” that netted a measley $1.4 million.....not even a drop in the bucket when you consider the fact that California is in the hole by tens of billions of dollars (and counting).
Instead of a stupid publicity stunt, the Austrian should have started an effort to cut taxes on individuals and corporations in California, cut the capital gains, repeal most of the nonsensical “environmental” regulations that are based on junk science anyway, and made it easier for companies to do business in the now tarnished Golden State.
Fat chance, but I can dream, can’t I?
Very good and worth repeating!
Unfortunately they'll not learn a thing until the bones are long gone, and then they'll blame someone else for it.
“I can dream, can’t I?”
I dunno. If you live in California, there’s probably either an environmental regulation against it, or a tax on it you’ll have to pay!
“Unfortunately they’ll not learn a thing until the bones are long gone, and then they’ll blame someone else for it.”
Sad but true ,What a shame!
Aerospace mfg. was huge ....during Reagan
(I know, I moved there when automotive took a dive in MI in the early 80's).
Post Reagan...unless you fed the dem's coffers one way or another...you moved out years ago.
“The current recession has hit manufacturing especially hard; industrial jobs are down by nearly 600,000 since 2001.”
Ah, but Arnold and the rest of the GOP democrats just love NAFTA!!!
In the early nineties, we who fought NAFTA had a slogan.
NAFTA...NoAmericanFactoriesTakingApplications!
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