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Anybody in business with any sense who is able to will flee California for Texas or almost anywhere else. CA has a miserable business climate. Their latest idiotic move is to renege on tax breaks they had given businesses in the past and not only stop giving them, but trying to make the retraction RETROACTIVE so the business must pay past moneys they were promised was theirs. With one party rule, especially the libs being the ones ruling, things are only going to get worse.
Yet amazingly enough California has almost twice the GDP that Texas has. In fact California is the only $2+ trillion dollar economy in the US.
The main reason for this is something that probably never occurs to such ultra conservatives as your self. And that is simply that because California has by far the best higher educational system in the entire US, it also has far more educated workers than just about any state in the union.
And such educated workers are an absolute must of the very profitable high tech industry in such places as Silicon Valley.
So, California is doing just fine now, and will be doing even better in the future. Personally, I am very glad there are jobs for Texans in the Tea Party land of Texas, as more and more such Texans will not be coming to California and decreasing the intelligence gene pool of Californians.
But, being a laid back Californian, retired from the aerospace industry, I would still wish you and all such Texans a Very Good Day!!
No, Texas, high taxes is the answer to building business. People that work hard just LOVE to give their paychecks to the government. California is just swimming in tax revenue and they have no debt and their budget is balanced.
Back in the 30’s the saying went “When Okies go to California the collective IQ of both states goes up.”
Fifty years ago when I was still in school old Okies would return from California with their kids and the children would be a year or even two behind where we were in class. The California education system has always been overrated and it’s even worse now than then.
Berkley Stanford Cal Tech UCLA, on and on, believe I’ll pay the California tuition before I pick up a cheapie in Okla. Love the Depression era joke though…
Is there any evidence that this is actually happening? California is still a much, much larger economy than Texas. As the Sacramento Bee put it, “Yes, come check out Texas. Check out a state that ranks dead last in the percent of its population with high school diplomas. Come check out a state that is last in mental health expenditures and workers’ compensation coverage. Come check out a state that ranks first in the number of executions, first in the number of uninsured, first in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted and first in the amount of toxic chemicals released into water.” Just because it’s a conservative paradise doesn’t mean that most people would want to move there.
Yeah, couldn’t help but notice back(wards)lash couldn’t cite a factual example within the last 20 years (school “generation”) but instead has to cite anecdotal “quips” from ancient history. Heck 50 years ago blacks weren’t allowed in the same schools as whites in many areas. Wow, what a difference half a century of progress makes.
Would be nice to be able to substantiate those claims by the Sacramento Bee. but assuming they are true, or even at least half, not thinking or INTELLIGENT human being would be proud to have those stats. Perhaps that’s why so many texans take pride in them
When I typed in “Perry Brown feud” I got that Katy Perry is feuding with Rihanna over Chris Brown. Anyhow Rick Perry has been in the news as trying to lure business from California.
California, going bankrupt and demanding the other states bail it out. Shows how well the totalitarian socialist utopia is working. The state has such poor infrastructure and an all-powerful gestapo to the point where truck drivers from other states try all sorts of schemes to keep their dispatchers from send them to that state. This drives up the cost of shipping, which must be passed on to California’s population.
Of course, if you are on a government program, who cares? You are not paying for it. All you care about is more free stuff. Which shows that California is what happens when the recipient class exceeds the provider class. As this happens, the providers will get fed up with having what they worked for taken from them and leave for states which will take much less. Unfortunately, many of those leaving bring their socialist utopia ideas with them and other states end up like Colorado or North Carolina. In Colorado you have Colorado, and then the I-25 corridor with all the California utopian immigrants. North Carolina has Cary, New York City’s southernmost suburb, and still as screwed up as New York City.
Education. Yep, the key to our future. And CA has some very fine schools. But when you look for the top ten ranked schools in America you must look to number 7 to find the first CA school (Stanford tied for 6th place) with only 2 in the top ten (CIT tied for the 10th spot) and only 4 in the top 25 schools.
Now I don’t put a lot of stock in these ranking systems but if you do wouldn’t you say that there are fine institutions of higher learning found all over the US? Why even Texas has a nationally ranked school or two.
And the continual put down of each other really goes a long way to further the divide doesn’t it.
Mix a snifter of Bill Mauldin, a dash of Jeff McNelly and a very large dollop of common sense, and you begin to get an idea of Lisa Benson’s considerable talent.
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Comments (46) (Please sign in to comment)
exoticdoc2 said, 3 months ago
Anybody in business with any sense who is able to will flee California for Texas or almost anywhere else. CA has a miserable business climate. Their latest idiotic move is to renege on tax breaks they had given businesses in the past and not only stop giving them, but trying to make the retraction RETROACTIVE so the business must pay past moneys they were promised was theirs. With one party rule, especially the libs being the ones ruling, things are only going to get worse.
Robert Landers said, 3 months ago
@exoticdoc2
Yet amazingly enough California has almost twice the GDP that Texas has. In fact California is the only $2+ trillion dollar economy in the US.
The main reason for this is something that probably never occurs to such ultra conservatives as your self. And that is simply that because California has by far the best higher educational system in the entire US, it also has far more educated workers than just about any state in the union.
And such educated workers are an absolute must of the very profitable high tech industry in such places as Silicon Valley.
So, California is doing just fine now, and will be doing even better in the future. Personally, I am very glad there are jobs for Texans in the Tea Party land of Texas, as more and more such Texans will not be coming to California and decreasing the intelligence gene pool of Californians.
But, being a laid back Californian, retired from the aerospace industry, I would still wish you and all such Texans a Very Good Day!!
wmconelly said, 3 months ago
Yeah, yeah. Pick up your Bushmaster (good pun huh?) and move southeast, you tax besotted Californians. Book your digs NOW for the 30 years drought.
wmconelly said, 3 months ago
That green grass the moo-cows and standing on? Baby, that’s astro turf, laid out over the desolate lands of its origin.
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
No, Texas, high taxes is the answer to building business. People that work hard just LOVE to give their paychecks to the government. California is just swimming in tax revenue and they have no debt and their budget is balanced.
blackash said, 3 months ago
@Robert Landers
Back in the 30’s the saying went “When Okies go to California the collective IQ of both states goes up.”
Fifty years ago when I was still in school old Okies would return from California with their kids and the children would be a year or even two behind where we were in class. The California education system has always been overrated and it’s even worse now than then.
wmconelly said, 3 months ago
Berkley Stanford Cal Tech UCLA, on and on, believe I’ll pay the California tuition before I pick up a cheapie in Okla. Love the Depression era joke though…
Chillbilly
said, 3 months ago
If you want to live in a Boss Hog place, you’ll have Boss Hog for a neighbor.
ARodney said, 3 months ago
Is there any evidence that this is actually happening? California is still a much, much larger economy than Texas. As the Sacramento Bee put it, “Yes, come check out Texas. Check out a state that ranks dead last in the percent of its population with high school diplomas. Come check out a state that is last in mental health expenditures and workers’ compensation coverage. Come check out a state that ranks first in the number of executions, first in the number of uninsured, first in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted and first in the amount of toxic chemicals released into water.” Just because it’s a conservative paradise doesn’t mean that most people would want to move there.
ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago
@ScottPM
Texas is where the Bush crime family comes from. Nothing more need be said.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@wmconelly
Yeah, couldn’t help but notice back(wards)lash couldn’t cite a factual example within the last 20 years (school “generation”) but instead has to cite anecdotal “quips” from ancient history. Heck 50 years ago blacks weren’t allowed in the same schools as whites in many areas. Wow, what a difference half a century of progress makes.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@ARodney
Would be nice to be able to substantiate those claims by the Sacramento Bee. but assuming they are true, or even at least half, not thinking or INTELLIGENT human being would be proud to have those stats. Perhaps that’s why so many texans take pride in them
Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago
When I typed in “Perry Brown feud” I got that Katy Perry is feuding with Rihanna over Chris Brown.
Anyhow Rick Perry has been in the news as trying to lure business from California.
deerflatener
said, 3 months ago
@Robert Landers
California, going bankrupt and demanding the other states bail it out. Shows how well the totalitarian socialist utopia is working. The state has such poor infrastructure and an all-powerful gestapo to the point where truck drivers from other states try all sorts of schemes to keep their dispatchers from send them to that state. This drives up the cost of shipping, which must be passed on to California’s population.
Of course, if you are on a government program, who cares? You are not paying for it. All you care about is more free stuff. Which shows that California is what happens when the recipient class exceeds the provider class. As this happens, the providers will get fed up with having what they worked for taken from them and leave for states which will take much less. Unfortunately, many of those leaving bring their socialist utopia ideas with them and other states end up like Colorado or North Carolina. In Colorado you have Colorado, and then the I-25 corridor with all the California utopian immigrants. North Carolina has Cary, New York City’s southernmost suburb, and still as screwed up as New York City.
Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago
@Robert Landers
Education. Yep, the key to our future. And CA has some very fine schools. But when you look for the top ten ranked schools in America you must look to number 7 to find the first CA school (Stanford tied for 6th place) with only 2 in the top ten (CIT tied for the 10th spot) and only 4 in the top 25 schools.
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/data
Now I don’t put a lot of stock in these ranking systems but if you do wouldn’t you say that there are fine institutions of higher learning found all over the US? Why even Texas has a nationally ranked school or two.
And the continual put down of each other really goes a long way to further the divide doesn’t it.
I thought we were all “Americans”.