Too many Democratic congressmen behaving like jackasses for bloggers to keep up anymore

http://www.stark.house.gov/

STARK STATEMENT ON NUMMI DECISION
August 28, 2009
“For 25 years the workers at NUMMI have produced some of the best cars and trucks in America. The craftsmanship of the employees at NUMMI is second to none. The closing of the plant is sad for the many individuals who built their lives around the jobs that NUMMI provided. I have no doubt that the skilled workers of the East Bay will rebound. I will work to marshal resources for retraining and to ensure that workers have financial stability during this difficult transition.”

Boo Frickin Hoo

Hmmmmmmmmmmm
Where did did those jobs Go??

http://www.rickperry.org/node/1182

Toyota moving Tacoma production to San Antonio
In California, however, about 4,700 workers at the Fremont plant stand to lose their jobs, and a network of more than 1,100 California-based suppliers, which employ tens of thousands of workers, will be affected.

The plant in Fremont was Toyota’s first manufacturing facility in the United States when it opened in 1984 as a joint venture with General Motors and was called New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., or NUMMI. At its peak, the plant was capable of building 150,000 Tacomas a year.

“It just would not be economically viable to continue the production contract with NUMMI,” Toyota Executive Vice President Atsushi Niimi said in a statement.

Even the economy’s bigger in Texas: ‘Republican Paradise’ endures, thrives as tax-heavy enclaves falter

http://www.rickperry.org/media-articles/even-economys-bigger-texas-republican-paradise-endures-thrives-tax-heavy-enclaves-fal

California is the most dysfunctional state in the country. The “liberal paradise” has astronomical taxes, severe unemployment, a massive and cumbersome state bureaucracy and an enormous budget deficit. Detroit, once the proud heart of American industry, is a ghost town. The high taxes in Michigan and the dominant control of the labor unions have sent employers fleeing in droves.

Some businesses in Texas are even thriving. Unemployment is well below the levels in Michigan or California. While most states are near bankruptcy, Texas has a budget surplus. More Fortune 500 Companies are based in Texas than any other state. The triangle formed by Dallas, Houston and San Antonio is the fastest-growing region in the country. Texas created more jobs last year than all the other states combined.

So what’s the state government in Austin doing that keeps their economy so strong? Not much. But Texas’ governor, Rick Perry, would tell you that “not much” is exactly the reason Texas has avoided the agony of the recession.

Texas’ legislature doesn’t work very hard – they are only in session about half a year every two years. But this is a feature, not a bug. It appears that the more time politicians spend trying to “fix” the economy, the more screwed up it becomes. In California and New York, you can pay as much as 10 percent of your income in state taxes, and that’s on top of your federal tax bill. Texas, however, has no state income tax at all.

There are far fewer costly regulations that businesses must comply with, and there are fewer draconian zoning laws that artificially inflate real estate prices. Housing is affordable. What you would pay for a closet in New York’s Upper East Side would get you a medium-sized single family home in Houston.

But Texas doesn’t have a monopoly on pro-growth economic policy. Along the drive back to school at the end of the summer, we encountered enormous brand-new automobile factories built by companies like Hyundai and Kia in Georgia and North Carolina. These companies chose to avoid the high taxes and stifling regulations that make Detroit an economic graveyard.

The strategy for bringing our economy out of this mess seems obvious, but somehow Obama has concluded that the best way to help local economies plagued by high taxes and excessive regulations is by raising taxes and adding regulations. The out-of-control spending in Washington has already put us trillions of dollars into debt, and that’s before you count the costs of any of the health care schemes being debated now.

The question America must ask itself is simple. Do we, as a nation, really want to go down the road of New York and Detroit? Is the model of high taxes, high spending and a huge bureaucracy that companies are so desperately fleeing the model that will most quickly lift us out of this recession? Clearly, the answer is no. Texas’ low taxes and business-friendliness have helped them avoid the most painful effects of the downturn. America’s best hope to escape this recession is to emulate the Lonestar State.

izoneguy on September 3, 2009 at 7:27 PM