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Business ESCAPING California… Again…

By Robert | April 18, 2011

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?

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LA Unified Super School? Sheesh

By Robert | August 23, 2010

This should tie in nicely to my last post:

LA unveils $578M school, costliest in the nation

LOS ANGELES – Next month’s opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinated in 1968.

With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation’s most expensive public school ever.

The K-12 complex to house 4,200 students has raised eyebrows across the country as the creme de la creme of “Taj Mahal” schools, $100 million-plus campuses boasting both architectural panache and deluxe amenities.

“There’s no more of the old, windowless cinderblock schools of the ’70s where kids felt, ‘Oh, back to jail,'” said Joe Agron, editor-in-chief of American School & University, a school construction journal. “Districts want a showpiece for the community, a really impressive environment for learning.”

Not everyone is similarly enthusiastic.

“New buildings are nice, but when they’re run by the same people who’ve given us a 50 percent dropout rate, they’re a big waste of taxpayer money,” said Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution who sits on the California Board of Education. “Parents aren’t fooled.”

So, we are laying off cops, firefighters and teachers, we are cutting the “welfare to work” program since there is no work. We are raising taxes in the state to try and cover all the “Gimme’s” this state is known for, we are letting THOUSANDS of criminals out of jail because of budget cuts. NOW we are building over a half BILLION dollar school for folks that will more than likely turn it into a graffiti mural and gang hangout within a matter of years. The students will probably have a drop out rate that rivals the highest in the nation which coincidentally is in LA too…

We are giving the teachers of this school a ferrari for what? Did they do anything more than whine about the condition of their other school? did they make any effort to improve their old one? did they sacrifice in anyway? Of course not, what they do is pay union dues that in part go to elect the officials that give them schools like this… Time to UNFUCK this state people.