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California Businesses are Leaving FAST.

California Businesses are Leaving FAST.

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It’s no mystery what causes companies to leave California — high taxes, undue regulation, workers’ comp costs, a legal environment stacked against businesses, and lengthy and costly construction permitting requirements.

Other contributing factors include agencies being staffed with individuals unsympathetic or even hostile to business concerns. Wildly excessive government spending contributes to unpredictable government behavior at the state level and also the local level.

A California blogger has put together a list of 100 businesses that have left California due to the anti-business climate of this state.

The important thing to remember is, when jobs leaves a state with it goes state revenue. All of that revenue that would be spent on education, PD, fire, infrastructure and even the pet projects of the elected officials disappears….So what happens then? THEN the state “Borrows money” to keep doing the same stuff with less money…NOW California is BANKRUPT, and business keep leaving, due to the climate of “Hate the rich, tax the middle, and give to the undeserving”…..

Check this out:
From The Business Relocation Coach

Apparently, No state agency keeps track of enterprises that move out of California or which companies elect to expand in other states even though they are headquartered here. That lack of knowledge is quite convenient for elected officials who deny that state’s anti-business attitudes and policies hurt commercial enterprises. Hence, without a central repository, it’s difficult to determine how many jobs are lost specifically because of California’s unfriendly business environment.

In this blog, I’ve attempted to note facility moves and disinvestments in California on a catch-as-catch can basis based on incomplete media reports. Below is a roundup of activity that I’ve been able to find since I started this blog in July, 2009. This imperfect and incomplete list of 100 moving-out-of-state events is the “tip of the iceberg” about the loss of commercial enterprises in California:

  • Abraxis Health, a unit of Los Angeles-based Abraxis BioScience Inc., opened a new plant that will create 200 jobs in 2010 — in Phoenix. This follows the company’s Phoenix expansions that occurred in 2007 and 2008.
  • Alza Corp. in 2007 eliminated about 600 jobs in drug R&D while also exiting its Mountain View, Calif., HQ. At the time the company said that its 1,200-person Vacaville facility will continue to operate. But the Vacaville Reporter on Oct. 23, 2009 revealed that the plant is being offered for sale by J&J, its parent company. It’s unclear if more layoffs are in the facility’s future.
  • American AVK, a producer of fire hydrants and other water-related products, moved from Fresno to Minden, Nevada.
  • American Racing moved its auto-wheel production to Mexico, ending most of its 47-year operation in California.
  • Apple Computer has expanded in other states, most recently with a $1 billion facility planned for North Carolina.
  • Audix Corporation relocated from Redwood City, Calif., and to accommodate growth moved to a 78,000-square-foot facility in Wilson, Oregon.
  • Apria Healthcare Group of Lake Forest is shifting jobs from California to Overland Park, Kansas, a K.C. suburb.
  • Assurant Inc. cut 325 jobs in Orange County and consolidated positions in Georgia, Ohio and South Carolina.
  • Automobile Club of Southern California placed 1,100 jobs in Texas.
  • Barefoot Motors, a small “green” manufacturer, moved from Sonoma and will grow in Ashland, Oregon.
  • Bazz Houston Co. located in Garden Grove, has slowly been building a workforce of about 35 people in Tijuana. In early 2010 the company said it expects to move more jobs to Mexico, citing cost and regulatory difficulties in Southern California.
  • Beckman Coulter, a biomedical test equipment manufacturer headquartered in Brea, relocated part of its Palo Alto facilities to Indianapolis, Indiana, two years ago. In early 2010, it’s making a multimillion-dollar investment to expand and create up to 100 new jobs in Indiana. The company said the area offers a “favorable business environment and lower total cost of operations, plus a local work force with strong skills in both engineering and manufacturing.”

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Update on California’s special election

Update on California’s special election

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It looks as if ALL the propositions are going to FAIL! (Except for 1f which says no raises unless the state is not running a deficit.)

Congratulations California, you just bitch slapped Arnie and his cronies for the years of over spending. Now perhaps they will take a hard look at the real reason California is broke!
Take a look at the illegal Immigration impact on the state, the over crowding of our schools and prisons, the added costs of doing business here because of the over regulation and enviroterrorists….Get serious about the real issues behind the demise of this state and we may pull out of this, if not say good bye to a once great state.

Arnie done it now!

Arnie done it now!

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California Governor Slashes salaries to Minimum wage.

More than 10,000 part-time and seasonal workers lose their jobs and 200,000 could have their compensation slashed pending budget approval. Controller John Chiang vows not to implement the order.

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, expressing frustration with lawmakers’ failure to approve a state budget, ordered his administration Thursday to lay off thousands of part-time employees and moved to temporarily slash the pay of most full-time staff.

The governor, a Republican, apologized to state employees, many of whom, he acknowledged, are already struggling in a difficult economy. But he said he had no choice in the absence of a budget one month into the fiscal year.

“Our state faces a looming cash crisis,” Schwarzenegger said.

Nearly 200,000 employees could have their pay cut to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour, with full salary reimbursed once a budget is signed. More than 10,000 lost their jobs Thursday. Exceptions were made for those deemed too critical to let go for purposes of law enforcement, public health and safety or other crucial services

Schwarzenegger also limited overtime and imposed a hiring freeze.

Again there are a couple of different ways to look at this action by the GOVERNATOR!

1. He had to do something, the legislature is full of the most liberal of law makers, and getting them to come up with a budget agreement has not gone well. Arnie has basically said, “Look we need the money now, you guys have been blaming each other, finger pointing and passing bullshit bills so you can please your “lefty” backers, Time to pay the piper”.

This action by Arnie was a “Call your bluff” move and odds are no one will lose a dime over time, as soon as the legislature gets off their ass all money is retroactive and they all will get paid.

2. This is a typical “Republican” tactic, he is wielding a heavy hand and trying to scare folks.

MY TAKE ON IT:

I believe that Arnie has a real problem, and the problem is HIS fault. COMPROMISING with the most liberal idiots in state government has got us into this position. The law makers of California are a raise taxes crew, they are a “Tax” business, tax employees, tax goods group of douchebags. THERE Is the real problem, the TAX money is drying up with 5.00 gas. The GOOD jobs are leaving the state at a record pace and they take TAX MONEY with them. Those folks bought houses, Cars, Big TV’s and they carried huge tax bills that went right into the nanny state’s coffers.

The real problem is Arnold, the Arnold that is more left than right and he has got caught up in the liberal thinking of tax first and worry later… It’s LATER and guess who pays? Yep the little guy at the DMV, or City Employees the same folks the “Demorat’s” say they are speaking up for.

DMV

Does any one else see the Bullshit dripping out of Sacramento?