XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, sac.politics, alt.california
XPost: alt.politics.democrats
From: Netfront_Users_R_Forging_Cowards@Netfront-Sucks-Shit.com
On Tue, 13 May 2014 15:59:35 -0500, "Byker" wrote:
>"Siri Crews" wrote in message
>news:chine.bleu-6D5627.12025413052014@news.eternal-september.org...
>> In article ,
>> "Byker" wrote:
>>
>>> A major facet of the state's economy, the agriculture industry has been
>>> affected by fewer undocumented immigrants crossing the border, deterred
>>> from
>>> coming to the U.S. because of high unemployment and a developing middle
>>> class in Mexico.
>>
>> Gosh darn uppitty illegal aliens refusing to slave away in Central Valley
>> farms.
>
>And a few fewer Norteņos and Sureņos blazing away at each other. Also:
>
>-In the last 20 years, about 4 million more people have left California than
>came in from other states. Most of those leaving are young families.
>
>-In the last 15 years, one-third of California's industrial employment base
>has disappeared. That's 600,000 jobs that have disappeared.
>
>-California has the 48th-worst business tax climate. (The Tax Foundation)
>
>-California's electricity prices are 50 percent higher than the national
>average.
>
>-Middle-class workers, those who earn more than $48,000, pay a top income
>tax rate of 9.3 percent. That's higher than what millionaires pay in 47
>other states.
>
>-California's unemployment rate is fourth highest in the nation.
>
>-From 2010-13, California produced fewer than 8,000 jobs, while the country
>added 510,000.
>
>California faces enormous underfunded public employee pension obligations.
>(Bloomberg)
>
>-An estimated 25 billion barrels of oil are sitting untapped in the Monterey
>and Bakersfield shale deposits. California is therefore sending billions of
>dollars to Texas, Canada and elsewhere to buy natural gas and oil that it
>could have produced itself.
>
>-Twitter, Adobe, eBay and Oracle, among other major California tech
>companies, have moved many operations to Salt Lake City.
>
>-Hollywood is doing more and more of its filming in Louisiana, Canada and
>elsewhere to avoid California taxes.
>
>-Toyota just announced that it is moving its U.S. headquarters from Los
>Angeles to Dallas. This will eliminate 3,000 or more generally high-wage
>jobs.
>
>-Occidental Petroleum recently announced that it is moving its headquarters
>from Los Angeles to Houston.
>
>-Until relatively recently, half of the country's top 10 energy firms -
>ARCO, Getty Oil, Union Oil, Occidental and Chevron - were based in
>California. Today, only Chevron remains, and it is gradually relocating in
>Houston. (Reuters)
>
>-Houston has added nine million square feet of new office space. Los Angeles
>has added one million.
>
>-Tesla will likely locate its proposed $5 billion battery factory, which
>would employ upward of 6,500 people, in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico or
>Texas. According to greentechmedia.com, California "didn't make the short
>list because of the potential for regulatory and environmental delays."
>
>-California's Monterey Shale offers a potential employment bonanza for
>workers needing access to entry-level jobs in the high-paying energy sector.
>But California's green lobby is striving to deny them that opportunity.
>(John Husing, chief economist of the Inland Empire Economic Partnership, Los
>Angeles Daily News)
>
In a nutshell, California is indeed a liberal's wet dream come true.
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