Typical Murky Nuz inanity.
Posted on 08/03/2011 2:22:20 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
The big surprise in California's new economic development plan unveiled Friday by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was -- um, nothing.
No surprises. Not a one. It's all strategies we knew were needed, most of them laid out earlier this year in a Silicon Valley Leadership Group white paper on the California economy. But codifying them in a plan is the first step toward ending Sacramento's inexplicably laissez-faire attitude toward creating jobs and attracting business -- or even trying to keep the companies we've got. States and cities struggling to do that in recent years have had nowhere to turn at the state level for help.
Newsom's next step, also proposed by the leadership group, is to create a state office to develop and coordinate strategies in distinctly different regional economies. Most important, California needs a jobs czar to focus 100 percent on this sole purpose. The elements of the plan, such as paring back or simplifying some regulation, will mean little if there isn't a champion to spread the word and to drive further changes as circumstances shift.
We don't want to be Texas. California has different strengths. But we can learn from successes in other states, and Newsom appears to have done the homework.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
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The Gastric Nuisance solution?
more blobocracy
there are hundreds of manufacturing facilities in our area.
there are many signs on the streets advertising the space available.
it’s really thought provoking.
The NEW ballad of Jed Clampett
Come and listen to a story ‘bout a man named Jed
Poor oil entrepreneur barely kept his family fed
Then one day he was working for some food,
And up through the town come a bumbling clown
(Brown that is, take a toke, what a joke)
Well the first thing you know old Jed’s taxes are to much to bear,
Kin folk said Jed move away from there!
Said California is no place for you to be
So they loaded up the truck and they moved from Beverly
(go’n back to the Hills they are, fish’n holes, country and western stars)
Well now it’s time to say goodbye to Jed and all his kin
They would like to thank you folks for kindly dropping in
You’re all invited back again to their new locality
To have a heaping helping of their hospitality
(Redneck Hillbillies, is what the press call ‘em now,
Clingers of bibles and guns and to Obama no bow!
Nice folks Y’all come back now, ya hear?)
So at least the new Jobs Czar gets a job. That’s one.
Good grief, Charley Brown.
Just what we all wanted so we could move our businesses to Calyfornicateyou: Yet another thousand-dollar suit with a briefcase full of BS speeches and new-and-improved regulations/taxes/advice.
I won’t even bother with the /sarc.......
They should be doing better unloading all those ships from China.
What could possibly go wrong? /rhetorical
Commie-fornia is even more dysfunctional than Washington, DC.
Small business has been in the cross-hairs of Sacramento and all of their ridiculous rules and regulations.
Anyone planning on opening a business here should have a psychiatric examination, pronto...
The comments in the newspaper show more intellectual capacity than the op-ed writer.
The last thing California needs is another bureaucrat. As the piece notes, Everyone knows what has to be done - there are no surprises here.
Rather what needs to be done is for the state government to eliminate a number of job killing agencies, rules and taxes. Of course this means laying off government workers and cutting taxes, which will require further layoffs. And that’s why they haven’t enacted any of these ideas.
California and the northeastern states have driven them away with excessive regulation - the other states either have too many economic problems or too poor a population density to warrant expansion.
Maybe we need a commission to study getting rid of the Lt. Gub position,, like teats on a boar,, but a lot more expensive to maintain..
It’s been recommended by more than a few in the past along with a part - time legislature.. but I doubt even that will counter the massive regulatory nightmare assembled here the last half century..
When I think of word associations with "California" and "business," "laissez-faire" isn't the first thing that comes to mind.
If they really had that as a policy Kalipornia would be booming insead of bombing.
It's an obscenity to describe the California government's premeditated and determined attack on business as "laissez-faire"...
Yup, that's just what CA needs more of.
Typical Murky Nuz inanity.
Our governor, Jerry Brown, should be our jobs czar. I don’t see that any other task would be a higher priority for him. Our state’s financial problems will not be solved without increasing employment, thereby increasing taxes paid to the state. Increasing employment will also decrease benefits paid out for people who are unemployed.
Moonbeam is not going to cut regulations or taxes in order to improve the economy.
[We don’t want to be Texas. ]
Your wish is granted!
[create a state office to develop and coordinate strategies in distinctly different regional economies. Most important, California needs a jobs czar to focus 100 percent on this sole purpose. ]
Why, that ought to solve the problem, there’s nothing a bureaucrat state office can’t solve.
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