[Robert357]

You know it is amazing what is said in this article! It should be a wake up call for politicians in California, Washington, and Oregon!

...after November's statewide elections the family didn't envision the business climate getting better in California.

In Idaho, the company's energy costs could fall 60 percent, workers' compensation costs 40 percent, and wages and benefits 20 percent, compared with here. Executives said they expect to employ the same number of people.

Duckett said the company's annual savings would be in the millions of dollars, but he declined to be more specific.

The company chose Idaho over states, such as Washington and Oregon, because it had the "best long-term, business-friendly legislative environment," Buck said.

[Centurion2000]

I'm looking forward to when Microsoft packs it up and moves East to Kansas, or OK. Don't want them in Texas as they'd drive down IT wages big time.

[inkling]

"Che" Davis strikes again!

[Redbob]

"Duckett said the company's annual savings would be in the millions of dollars,..."

Alright, let me be the first to point out that it's Buck's customers who are paying those exorbitant California taxes now, and who will be saving "millions of dollars".

Not just the Buck family.

[Redbob]

This article doesn't even mention that another efficiency improvement will be that, in Idaho, Buck will be able to use just one language for communicating with their employees!

[stevio]

I think they might see the writing on the wall. The fact that California is so anti-gun, how far behind are they from being anti-knife?

[katana]

"best long-term, business-friendly legislative environment,"

Red that as: "Rock Ribbed Republican". Take that, Gov. Doofus.

[Vic3O3]

Hehehe, another one leaving the Land of Kalifornication! OohRah!

[KneelBeforeZod]

sad to see them go...but really, we are going to lose 10x the jobs and taxes when Kmart closes those stores.

[VOA]

I'm sure someone has already said this:

"At least Buck Knives will be 'Made In The USA', not in California"

[sheik yerbouty]

Thank Gray Doofus and his Caliban.

[snopercod]

Additional information not mentioned in the original article, but published today in the Seattle Times

North Idaho has attracted another new company. The latest example is Buck Knives, a privately held maker of sports and utility knives. It will move its headquarters from near San Diego to Post Falls in the next year.

Electricity costs were a big factor. The company spends $500,000 a year on power in California and expects to cut that by 60 percent in Idaho, according to Marple's Pacific Northwest Letter.

[nicmarlo]

after November's statewide elections the family didn't envision the business climate getting better in California.

AMERICANS SHOULD TAKE HEED: California is the prime example of the devastating effects of the socialist agenda---businesses cannot survive, they and people are leaving that state in droves. Additionally, California State Board of Education has repeatedly failed to achieve the success in their lab experiment, the "whole langugage" program (instead of time-tested effective phonics).

If the socialist commie rats take over America, as they have more and more in California, there will be no place for any business to run. Why don't Americans see this?

[alaskanfan]

The only trouble that I've seen with these Californians migrating to Idaho and Montana, is that they tend to bring their liberal political views with them.

I remember when Washington and Oregon were conservative majority states.

[Quix]

Am glad they were sane enough to avoid Wash and Ore.

I knew a Buck brother--pastor of First Assembly in Spokane. His brother, Roland was long time pastor of First Assembly in Boise. Roland had the BELIEVABILITY type of personality like Walter Cronkite [in terms of the national people ranked by such].

Roland had what--14 extensive visits by angels and an extended visit to Heaven. His fascinating story is in ANGELS ON ASSIGNMENT.

His visit to Heaven began as he sat at his desk. He put his head down to rest and poof, instantly, he was in Heaven. That whole scene is alone worth the read. Anyway--while he was in Heaven, he was told 120 things that would occur in the future.

One included the next Pope--which was accurate. Several of the 120 items were interesting miraculous ministry experiences--which occurred exactly as predicted.

Particularly interesting was that when Roland came to himself back at his desk, raised his head up--he realized he had a velum/parchment sort of sheet with the 120 items written on it in a beautiful script.

Being a bit used to such dramatic things at that time and/or maybe a bit foggy from his Heavenly experience, he just laid the sheet with the 120 items on it down and went to bed. When he got up the next morning, it had started to sort of disintegrate. He swept the pieces into an envelope and a number of people saw them. Eventually they sort of just evaporated to nothing, as I recall.

One of my favorite parts is that they had two great dane dogs. And they could always tell when angels were manifesting more overtly in their home by the behavior of the dogs--who loved it when the angels came more overtly.

As I recall, the first event was Roland waking up in his king sized bed facing outwardly on his side and realizing that the bed beside him--between his body and the edge was sunk WAYYYY DOWN because a VERY BIG [8-9 feet? I forget exactly] A VERY BIG man was sitting on the bed beside him--as I recall--in somewhat radiant clothing--I forget whether it was armor or a white robed sort of affair. I think some of the time, the angels were dressed casually in turtle necks.

I think the book's still in print though Roland went to his Heavenly reward years ago. I heard him speak in the midst of his angel visitations. I was prepared to discount it wholesale as more A of G hoopla [I was reared in the A of G. And, his brother who introduced him and whom I've met with, was very typical A of G. But Roland was a real solid character. The closest personality I can come up with is Walter Cronkite IN TERMS OF HIS BETTER POINTS! --his unflappability and solid scrutiny of reality. You just knew no body was going to pull anything over on that man.

Of course a long list of pharisees in Christianity had a fit that God would never do things THAT WAY. Some claimed parts of the book were unBiblical but I never found such and read it at least twice.

No, keep your tinfoil hats to yourself, thank you.

[It's me]

Thank you, Gov. Davis...