Old news from a right wing rag. Plus even on their chart, CA employs more people than TX.
CA is not bleeding STEM jobs, as much as the local Republicans here wish we were. 2001-2011 is old news, and includes .com bubble bursting with CA being the epicenter, and oil boom in Texas creating various petroleum and chemical engineering jobs, hence the unfavorable comparison.
Here is a more recent comparison:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-06/californias-job-growth-outpaces-texass
Yes, Texas is cutting its public workforce. Not good.
Tightening your belt is not a good thing. It's uncomfortable.
Yeah! We need a bloated government sector overpaying workers getting the exact same amount done as those with much less.
Texas is not getting the exact same amount done.
Tightening your belt is not a good thing. It's uncomfortable.
Cutting unnecessary government jobs is a good thing.
It's called tightening your belt...
California was never considered in the search for a new headquarters site, these people said, but its location—far from Toyota's other operations in the U.S.—was a bigger factor than its business climate, which has been criticized by some for its high taxes and myriad regulations.
In an email Wednesday, Jim Lentz, chief executive of Toyota's North American operations, said: "The business environment had nothing to do with the decision to leave California."
Mr. Lentz also said he didn't want to have the new headquarters in any location where there already was a divisional headquarters, which put California, Michigan and Kentucky out of the running.
People familiar with the search for the new U.S. headquarters said each of the final locations considered—Atlanta, Charlotte., N.C., Denver and suburban Dallas—had factors the company required: a major airport, good quality of life, relative proximity to Toyota's other U.S. operations, and not in the shadow of Detroit, where America's Big Three auto makers are headquartered.
Another factor: the site had to be near affordable housing and high-quality schools.
Dallas's two airports—particularly Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport—were a key influencer in the final decision, the people said. They will give Toyota employees direct-flight capability to any of its U.S. plants and Japan, while remaining closer to families in California than other hubs like Atlanta and Charlotte.
Mr. Lentz has cited Texas' business-friendly climate, as well as no personal income tax. He also said California wasn't offered an opportunity to counter Texas' offer, saying to do so would have been "disingenuous" since the decision to leave that state had been made.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles...0562?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStories&mg=reno64-wsj
So Texas' business climate was far down the list of considerations for Toyota moving.
Cool story bro.
Another factor: the site had to be near affordable housing and high-quality schools.
Mr. Lentz has cited Texas' business-friendly climate, as well as no personal income tax.
Tightening your belt when you are in last to third to last in any given year in per capita spending is asinine. Texas has money. Texas has problems. Texas refuses to spend said money on said problems.
And that article is old. Texas made massive, and as it turns out, totally unnecessary cuts in 2011. That caused a lot of public employees, mostly in education to lose their jobs. Most of the public education jobs have been recovered. And more are being added because well there are shit ton of kids being added to Texas public schools. There are a couple districts in the DFW area that are adding 500-600 students a semester. One of those districts is trying to pass a $750million bond package next week. The bond is to build 8 elementary schools, 3 middle schools and 3 high schools over the next ~5-8 years. Those are in addition to the schools still being built(3 elementary, 1 middle, 2 high schools all opening by fall 2015) with the ~$250million of the $789million bond from 2006. This bond election will put its total debt at over $2billion. There are some that oppose the new bond, but what are you going to do when you are adding close to ~3 elementary schools worth of enrollment a year and they cannot build facilities fast enough.
Hmm:
Says something about Dallas, I guess.
This contradicts his earlier statement to some degree too:
Yes, Texas is cutting its public workforce. Not good.
Cutting unnecessary government jobs is a good thing.
It's called tightening your belt...
I can't believe I am agreeing with you. Glad to see you're making sense :thumbsup:
Libertarians and Republicans occasionally agree.