On Feb 24, 9:29*am, wrote:
Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century,
California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and growth.
It did not become the richest, most populous, and most productive
state solely because of its weather and natural resources.
So it takes a lot to turn California around from growth to
contraction, from people moving into the state to a net exodus from
the state, from business moving into California to businesses leaving
California.
It takes some doing.
And the Left has done it.
[...]
- California’s state expenditures grew from $104 billion in 2003 to
$145 billion in 2008.
- California has the worst credit rating in the nation.
- California has the fourth highest unemployment rate in the nation,
9.3 percent -- higher even than the car manufacturing state of
Michigan.
- California has the second highest home foreclosure rate.
- California’s tax-paying middle class is leaving the state.
California’s net loss last year in state-to-state migration exceeded
every other state's. New York, another Left-run state, was second.
- Since 2000, California’s job growth rate -- which in the late 1970s
was many times higher than the national average -- has lagged behind
the national average by almost 20 percent.
- California has lost 25 percent of its industrial work force since
2001.
[...]
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles...B3D1A-8FC9-474....
And remember the best law you repug ever passed in California? The no
new taxes law, the one that eliminated California as a place to go for
research? Yeah, the law that has just been changed with very few
repug votes.
Every day, in every way you are making your selves into a minor party.