Business ESCAPING California… Again…

One of my favorite writers/Bloggers is Bloviating Zeppelin. His latest post regarding businesses bailing on California is yet another great one.

The story is from the Orange County Register

69 more firms move jobs, facilities out of California

So far this year, 69 companies have moved all or part of their California work and jobs to other states or countries, reports Irvine relocation consultant Joe Vranich.

It’s the fastest rate of departures since Vranich started tracking the exodus in 2009, he says. There have been an average of 4.7 moves per week from Jan. 1 through April 12, compared to 3.9 moves in all of 2010.

BZ’s “opinions” are fact based and well worth a read. BZ lists the top 10 reasons California is bleeding jobs. Please do yourself a favor and check it out. It’s a template for our nation under the current administration.

I won’t repost BZ’s column, but I will add a reason that was missed. Get ready, I’m about to be called a racist….

The education system in California is worse than any investigation has let out. We here in the golden state are suffering from that collapse.  It was about 25 to 30 years ago that California put out some of the brightest minds, and biggest assets in the nation. The state was booming, businesses thrived, the state was on the receiving end of transnational relocation. What happened?

What happened is liberalism crept in. The squeaky wheel got a lot of grease. Schools were too tough for some “Non-English” speaking students. Students in lower income areas suffered because class sizes got bigger, discipline got removed, parents became absent and the bar for success continued to be lowered. We couldn’t put Non-English speaking students in their own classes because it would be segregation. We had to teach in two languages until they were able to comprehend English. We didn’t stop the flood of ANCHORS into our public schools and any attempt to stop it was labeled racist. We had to cater to the influx of illegal immigrants at the detriment to LEGAL resident students. We threw money at the system thinking it would help but all it did was create a entitlement mentality. We continue to throw money at this system.

This started the decline in the labor market. California’s labor market is no longer a vibrant, intelligent, hard working pool of labor for businesses to use to create, produce and sell wares. Quite frankly the generation that is joining the labor force in California is sub-par to other states labor pools.

How do I know?

We’ve been trying to hire ONE person with a very moderate skill set, a skill set that at age 19 I possessed. Now, we’ve gone through about 300 applicants in 6 months and have yet to find ONE to fit the bill. Not to mention the 10 to 15 applicants, that can’t show up on time for the interview, can’t communicate in English, can’t answer basic questions in face to face interviews… In the late 80’s we filled positions at my facility in a matter of DAYS, not months… This is how I know California is past the point of no return. We have lost one of the last two reasons for companies to open here. The other being scenery and weather.

Please go read BZ’s post. California was a great state and an asset to the union. Now it’s a drain on the rest of nation.