To: Tax-chick
Why haven't more businesses and residents left the state?
I'm not an business expert, but being here in West Los Angeles, I suspect the
real damage is that a LOT of businesses have been continuously contracting
in numbers of employees.
Some small businesses have probably just shuttered their doors and liquidated stock.
I know that Buck Knives left the San Diego area for Idaho (after about 100 years)
and one big company left the Santa Barbara area.
And the pro-Recall ads are citing a loss of 300,000 jobs under Davis' reign.
Also, the LA Times Business section a few months ago mentioned that Arizona and
Nevada added about as many jobs as California lost in the past year...the likely meaning
being that a lot of small companies have moved across the state line.
As for the bodies...why leave? The weather is nice, the Democratis regime
promises lots of unemployment and re-training benefits, etc.
Welfare cases move here from other states...because of that.
And I believe a Supreme Court case has prevented CA from simply paying these
re-located welfare cases what they were getting in welfare in their previous residence
state (for the first year they are in CA).
17 posted on
10/07/2003 8:34:06 AM PDT by
VOA
To: VOA
I never cared for the weather in California. Must be my midwestern genes.
18 posted on
10/07/2003 8:48:48 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(Sorry, I lost all my taglines in the move.)
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