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California executives say California worst place in the nation to do business
Sacramento Bee ^ | 5/5/11 | Mark Glover

Posted on 05/05/2011 11:55:37 AM PDT by Nachum

For the seventh year in a row, a survey of chief executives has ranked California as the nation's worst state in which to do business. More than 500 U.S. CEOs polled by Greenwich, Conn.-based Chief Executive magazine based their opinions on numerous factors, including regulations, tax policies, work force quality, education resources, quality of living and infrastructure

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; executives; say
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What, you don't like high taxes, oppressive regulations and illegal aliens?
1 posted on 05/05/2011 11:55:39 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

What a shocking headline. /s

In other news.....water is wet


2 posted on 05/05/2011 11:56:47 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue
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To: Nachum

Everyone in CA knows this except our Governor and idiotic legislature.


3 posted on 05/05/2011 11:58:24 AM PDT by Yaelle
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I’ve read that California employees are going into their bosses offices asking them to “please relocate” out of CA. Welcome to Moonbeam’s land of Liberal pipe dreams represented by the likes of Pelosi, Feinstein, and Babs Boxer.


4 posted on 05/05/2011 12:01:54 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Nachum
What did anyone expect since California has been run for many years by a communists like Democrat Party and their only criteria is greed and power. Never has this State, in a generation, have ever had it's citizens in mind. California is the garbage pile of the most insane idiots in the Nation.
5 posted on 05/05/2011 12:04:54 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: Nachum

the libs have dumbed down the public screwls and colleges.

i took a finance class at a community college several years ago.

i could have passed the class in 5th grade.

the anglo retired adults dropped the class early on. i hung on, ignoring the signs, hoping to get something out of the class.

most of the class was mexicans. one arrived early one class and confided to me that

he’d flunked the same classes’ final last year, but had received a “b” grade

due to his participation in the class. he liked the teacher.

the teacher bad-mouthd mccain and palin.

he criticized me for bringing the wsj to class. i dropped.


6 posted on 05/05/2011 12:05:04 PM PDT by ken21 (dem taxes + regs + unions = jobs overseas.)
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California executives say California worst place in the nation to do business

...and yet, you good little liberal businessmen keep voting for the same people.

Can't fix stupid. *shrug*
7 posted on 05/05/2011 12:12:10 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Nachum

If your business is government - your doing great!


8 posted on 05/05/2011 12:28:31 PM PDT by edcoil (Democrats doing to America what Reagan did to russia. Driving it to bankrupcy.)
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..and yet, you good little liberal businessmen keep voting for the same people.

You really shouldn't generalize.

I can tell you firsthand this one (quoted in a related story as follows) does not put his money or his vote on the Democrat side:

"ABC -- Anywhere But California," said T.J. Rodgers, CEO of San Jose-based Cypress Semiconductor, a $668 million chip-maker that also has plants in 10 countries. "It's expensive, it's hostile to business, and environmental regulations are more of a drag on business than protecting the environment."

Cypress Semiconductor's head count in California peaked at 1,500. It's now down to about 600.

Sadly, Rodgers is in the minority in Silicon Valley.

9 posted on 05/05/2011 12:33:18 PM PDT by logician2u
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To: Tzimisce
Just doing everything that needs to be done that no one else is doing.
renewable energy = 33% - get it from anywhere. Probably not Calif.
Oil energy don't drill here
Solar energy - watch out for the desert mouse and tortoise and possibly a lizard
Can't build it in Calif. and if you do it will cost 3x as much.
Regulate, study forever, bury in paper work.
Calif. great environment - soon only good to visit but then the Environmentalists will not permit you to step on the ground and damage it - you might leave permanent footprints and CO2 damage.
10 posted on 05/05/2011 12:37:29 PM PDT by tbird-james
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Just for that, we’re raising your taxes.


11 posted on 05/05/2011 12:37:33 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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idiotic legislature

This little article says it all: Speaker of the California Assembly, Mexican Homosexual John Perez, adjourns legislature in honor of doctor who declared homosexuality not a mental illness.

You can't make this stuff up. The Speaker of the Assembly of the "American" State of California...is a Mexican queer.

The jokes write themselves.

12 posted on 05/05/2011 12:52:12 PM PDT by Regulator (Watch Out! Americans are on the March! America Forever, Mexico Never!)
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Like bullet train to the head, California; with your windmills flapping in the breeze.

You so deserve each other.


13 posted on 05/05/2011 1:03:19 PM PDT by cicero2k
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California, like Detroit, is a sterling example of the “pro business” Democrat party ...


14 posted on 05/05/2011 1:04:57 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Nachum

Pull out

To any computers companies in California: You can get skilled people at half the going Califonria rate in Western New York

freepmail me for contacts


15 posted on 05/05/2011 1:04:59 PM PDT by Mr. K (this administration is WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY~!! [Palin/Bachman 2012])
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To: Nachum

I thought Hawaii was. We must be second then.


16 posted on 05/05/2011 1:13:53 PM PDT by fish hawk (Obama = "low-level socialist organizer". Allen West)
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To: Nachum

We’re Number One, we’re Number One!!


17 posted on 05/05/2011 1:33:57 PM PDT by TMD (Behind enemy lines.....)
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To: Nachum

still here , thanks to my ceo


18 posted on 05/05/2011 1:37:24 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: fish hawk

I heard Maine was.

We have sky high taxes and very low wages.


19 posted on 05/05/2011 1:53:48 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (A Jimmy Carter got us a Ronald Reagan......A Barack Obama will get us a Sarah Palin)
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To: Nachum

The Golden State, once the true pinnacle of the American dream, completely, and probably irrevocably, pissed away by idiotic Marxists.


20 posted on 05/05/2011 1:56:25 PM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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