Schwarzenegger’s soon-to-be-ended seven-year reign as California’s governor can be best described in just that one simple world: failure.

Joel Kotkin at Forbes.com

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As the state sunk into an ever deeper fiscal crisis, he continued to expend his energy on the grandiose and beyond the point: establishing a Californian policy for combating climate change, boosting an unaffordable High-Speed Rail system, and even eliminating plastic bags. These may be great issues of import, but they are far less pressing than a state’s descent into insolvency.

The draconian greenhouse gas reductions now proudly touted by Schwarzenegger could make this worse.

Now companies in California and a handful of other similarly minded states simply will have to cope with regulatory overkill and much higher energy costs against   competitors domestically and around the world.

The production sector, the most vulnerable target of the green machine, is already reeling. Manufacturing losses, over 32% since 2001, have remained well above the national average–with a toll of over 600,000 jobs .  Over the last three years the state ranked dead last among the nation’s 25 largest states in terms of adding new manufacturing capacity.

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