The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
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It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.
The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.
Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.
Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.
There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.
The San Fernando Valley has plenty of manufacturing zones, especially in the 29th Congressional District.
There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.