When you look at this very telling chart of Energy Supply and the Individual States from Gregor MacDonald’s Gregor.us Monthly, you see the harmful economic impact the green movement has had on California.
Sound blasphemous? Not really. Victor Sperandeo said effectively the same thing in the video excerpt Observe What Is.
California consumes 3 times as much energy as it produces, and as MacDonald states, “when oil and natural gas prices rise, states like Colorado see a cascade of earnings, revenues, and royalties flow into their state. Whereas states like California see a cascade of capital flow out of state.” This seems emblematic of how LA and California in general are run: the state and local economic policies seem to chase otherwise great businesses out of the state, rather than trying to attract them or get them to stay.
Borrowing from MacDonald, I think California consumes 3 times as much energy as it produces intellectually too: our leaders are economically illiterate but the government workers seem to be doing well, despite not wanting to share in the meltdown.
LA Unified School District pays 160 teachers $10 million a year to do nothing. They spent $2 million in legal and salary costs on a case that dates back to 2002 – to remove one teacher for misconduct.
What I’m also thinking about is the recent layoffs, the layoffs to come, more firms like Northrop Grumman leaving for greener pastures, and a credit-rating downgrade that will cost CA millions more in nominal interest payments when (and if they can) issue more debt.
That Northrop Grumman was allowed to leave Century City without any major elected official stepping in to cut their corporate taxes or persuade them to do otherwise would be like watching former NCG Chairman and CEO Ron Sugar himself walking unscathed through airport security at LAX with a B-2 Spirit Bomber under his arm and not sounding the alarms.
California, and especially Los Angeles, are not business-friendly. And that’s before you have to deal with the USPS…
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Clearly this is all the result of market failure arising from deregulation…
/sarc
California’s economic situation is typical of most politicians’ decisions made thoughtout the United States. They have a lack of interest in getting the most value for the buck. There is a virtual lack of cost/performnce analysis for projects. This is leading the United State to become a third world country rapidly.
Here are a couple examples. In education, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is being provided worldwide for K-12 students; some countries plan to provide one OLPC for each student in its country. In transportation, other countries have built, are building and plan to build more elevated monorail systems which are environmentally friendly and cost about the same as low capacity light rail trolley (LRT); elevated monobeam (cantilevered monorail) high capacity technology would cost about the same to build as LRT build would cost about 60 percent of the cost of LRT to operate while being far safer and faster than LRT.
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This is leading the United State to become a third world country rapidly.
In transportation, other countries have built, are building and plan to build more elevated monorail systems which are environmentally friendly and cost about the same as low capacity light rail trolley.
He’s better than Terry Lani, the old MGM CEO, who loved unions and lobbied really really really really hard for a state income tax.
The more we produce and the less we consume the better off we’ll be…
California’s economic situation is typical of most politicians’ decisions made thoughtout the United States. They have a lack of interest in getting the most value for the buck.www.tocoy.net
If I could believe that this were only California, I would feel much better. But seriously inept politicians seem to be a national disease. Where else could one find a Blaygovitch (sorry, I know that is misspelled, but I don’t care enough to look up the right spelling). My gut feeling says that limiting terms for all politicians — national, state and local — to two terms would go a long way toward disrupting the power centers that have settled into this country.
This is not only about the two cities..if you look at the graph or the data or any other facts then this is the trend across the country. so sooner its is taken care better it would be in the future.
it’s not about the money or how expensive it cost as sometime we should think of benefit with a little loos. Anyway great effort most be kept.
From this side of the pond in the UK it still seems Americans couldn’t give a damn about conserving energy or doing anything to moderate their lifestyle in order to conserve what energy you do have. There needs to be a massive culture shift over there (without people screaming their constitutional rights are being abused) so you have a chance of having some energy to live your lives…
Once again eager article thanks loads for sharing, keep me posted I’ll be reading much of your read-ups in the future!
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