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- From: reidyj@CS.ORST.EDU (Jay Reidy)
- Newsgroups: alt.culture.oregon
- Subject: Re: Influx of Californians? Gee--what a surprise!
- Message-ID: <1eov1gINNntv@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 21:45:20 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering, Oregon State University
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- Yeah, and they're all on welfare! In fact, the tax base of
- California is leaving. McDonald Doublass pulled out of Long Beach
- for somewher in the south. 15,000 jobs--gone. Apple, Intel, HP
- aren't building OR hiring in California, but they are in Atlanta,
- Dallas etc.
-
- TRW laid off 6,000 people in California. Hughes Helicopter closed
- down and left for cleaner, cheaper better digs.
-
- With the lone possbility of New York, California has the highest
- personal income taxes, corporate taxes and restriction of any state
- in the country.
-
- If I can get tax credits for opening a 250,000 square foot plant in
- Memphis, Tennessee and can hire quality engineers for, on the
- average, $15k less than in California where am I going to go? Duh!
-
- Does UCLA produce better programmers than Texas-Austin? Is the
- medical care in Pensacola worse than in LA. Am I going to get sued
- in Virginia because one of my employees cuts his thumb on a pop-top
- at a company party?
-
- In 1990, the only piece of legislation to come out of Sacramento was
- whether or not a veterinarian or just an animal handler could floss a
- dog's teeth! When Jerry Brown was governor of California,the state
- had a 2/3 Democratic majority in both houses of the Lesislature, and
- the only property tax relief they could deliver was written by a
- lame duch Repbulican. You guys got Prop 13 and did nothing for
- 10 years and now you have a $12-Billion budget shortfall, and wnent
- 59 (?) days with no budget at all.
-
- California is a disgrace to the nation, but as long as you have
- air conditioned BMWs, to clog the freeways, where it takes mroe than
- an hour to go from Pasadena to Long Beach at midnight (30 miles), you
- won't figure it out!
-
- Keep pretending you are the nation's trend setters. And please keep
- sending us your unemployed techies. You'l only get $25K for what you
- were getting $50K for in California, but you can buy a four bedroom
- house for $85K with 10 acres of land AND ride your bike to work, not
- have it stolen and you won't have to carry a gun with you (unless
- you're going after deer or pheasant or elk).
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