Long term Democrat/progressive/socialist control has brought California to bankruptcy. Unions unholy alliance with Democrats, environmental wackos, and acclaimed victimhood of every group has brought the utopian state of California to ruin. Higher costs, higher taxes, ever increasing tyranny of regulations and thought police have made the state dysfunctional. The first to flee were businesses. Now people are seeing the results of their welfare state.
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Fleeing Liberal Utopia – Failed State of California a Vision of Obama’s America
Flashback: Obama says he will make union agenda America’s agenda
The Democrats at the state and federal level have become like loan sharks and money launderers. Unions collect dues and fund the election of Democrats. The Democrats borrow the people’s money in the form of promised future benefits and high wages and and the cycle begins again. The Democrats get power and money in the form of public office and benefits. Obama isn’t just an opportunist with this union push, he is a tried and true union believer. Former SEIU president Andy Stern was the most frequent visitor to the White House while leading with socialist slogans. Now we find out that AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka visits the White House 2 or 3 times a week and speaks with the White House daily.
IN Gov. Daniels on jobs boom from being right to work state
Businesses are migrating to right to work states to get away from onerous and costly unions. Shouldn’t you have a right to work without a union? Shouldn’t you have a choice whether or not to support leftist socialist Democrats and their radical agenda through your forced union dues?
Democrats mad at North Carolina – seek convention relocation
“Tell me again just why we’re going to Charlotte this year?” … Democrats privately are asking exactly that after the state’s voters overwhelmingly approved a measure outlawing not just same-sex marriage… Almost immediately after the vote, more than 20,000 people signed a “move the convention” petition being pushed by a New York group called Gay Marriage USA. – NationalJournal
Unions killing state economies – Want Jobs and Higher Salaries? Move to a Right-to-work State
Right-to-work states have generally lower unemployment, higher job growth, lower taxes and better business climates. They have growing populations and have been attracting businesses from other states.
Three Worst States to Conduct Business: CA, NY, ILL – yes they’re all blue
Anyone who lives in Illinois, California, or New York will not be surprised by a survey that shows they are in the group of the Three Worst States to do Business.
Unions And Ford
[U]nions are killing all of the “blue” states isn’t a completely obvious and talked-about fact; all incremental investment that could possibly be done over the last few decades was either overseas or in non-union states. All of that investment COULD have benefited Michigan or Illinois or Wisconsin or Pennsylvania but instead it went to the US south, or overseas.
Obama skirts rule of law to reward pals, punish foes
Punishing enemies and rewarding friends — politics Chicago style — seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and the IRS’ gift-tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors.