[quote=luchabee]Likely, we will have a 15% unemployment rate in CA when all is said and done, if we are not already there. California is our test case for the US as a whole and our new regulatory, tax and spend state. The only thing keeping the federal government propped up is our ability to print and borrow money. This will stop soon, unfortunately.

Liberal policies are predicated on the idea that American businesses are what they once were, but with globalism, we really don’t have much anymore. So, like GM and California, liberals have killed our competitiveness and the nation as a whole is next. In sum, globalism would have turn us into England inevitably (no significant manufacturing base, etc.), but liberalism helped to get us there a whole lot quicker.

Likely, sdgirl, you have never employed anyone in CA or met a payroll . . . So you may have not thought about all the burdens to running a business in the US and CA under Democrat rule.[/quote]

I have.
Its not that tough.

It just requires that you be competitive and fork over the money for quickbooks and turbotax.

Most business owners who are complaining about how hard it is should go to some place like Europe or Japan where the gov’t subsidizes crappy companies as a matter of ongoing policy (rather than a special bailout). Weeding these pussies out is part of the reason that California’s economy can compete with most of Europe’s.

Also, being a Euro-style industrial or post-industrial nation is not such a terrible idea (though I would still prefer to live here).

Neither England (not a nation state by the way), nor Switzerland, nor Germany have particularly crappy standards of living.

It really is more complicated than taking Ayn Rand as gospel.

“We agree that the government that governs least governs best and by that measure we have built a great government in Iraq”
-Stephen Colbert