Originally Posted by Shotsie

Here's some statistics for the so called business friendly states, as far as manufacturing goes. The decreases are in number of workers employed.


Arizona


Texas

Now compare those to the decline in a so called non business friendly state.


California

At a glance, it seems to show that a few jobs have moved out of California to other states, but the vast majority of lost manufacturing jobs have either left the country as a whole, or/and been automated out of existence. from about 1990 to 2009, every State lost manufacturing jobs. So while California may be unfriendly to business what you overlooking is the fact that the whole country is bleeding jobs. So think about it like this, the US is a sick patient, but the patient's sickness isn't isolated to an infected limb(California), the patients illness is systematic. The patient is hemorrhaging profusely in almost all parts of it's body, trying to save one body part is futile.

When free enterprise profit begins to affect the health of a country, where should we draw the line between businesses' rights to do as they wish, and limiting them when they wish to perform actions that will damage the country? If you are an American corporation drawing upon the excellent resources coming from being in America, you owe it to America and its citizens not to drain us by sending all the manufacturing and jobs to other countries. To do otherwise is cynically exploiting the US as a base while exploiting the cheap labor elsewhere. All around exploitation, while the CEO gets a $30 million golden parachute and ex-workers end up living in the streets. That's got to stop before we have nothing left.