Gino DiCaro: 800,000 Californians Signal They Want Welcome Mat for Manufacturers

» AN50 on 05.07.10 @ 03:06 PM

Manufacturing is one of the three pillars of wealth generation in any economy, socialist or capitalist. This is the greatest of the three (resource extraction and agriculture are the other two) in that you get the greatest value added for the buck. What people on the left and the environmental movement need desperately to understand is that without wealth generation you have an economy that primarily just moves its existing or dwindling wealth around. No one is better off. This country built an enormous amount of wealth through manufacturing. So much so that most people just took it for granted that the wealth generation would just continue no matter what we did. So we began the arduous task of loading that wealth generation with wealth consuming benefits, restrictions and superfluous crap that did not add value but consumed it. The environmental movement jumped on that band wagon and still operates in that parasitic mode.  This had the disastrous effect of killing manufacturing here in California. Unless environmentalists understand and come to grips with the balance sheet they will continue to be parasitic obstructionists that destroy the very means that supports them.

To that, we have Publius demonstrating that very balance sheet ignorance. Way to deep in the “blame big industry”, Publius continues to bite the hand that feeds. The big industries that you complain about are stuck here for whatever reasons, so yes they have to fight the constant erosion of wealth generation by idiots who do not understand it. Those industries not tied here simple leave and that is what they have been doing for decades now.

Tell me Publius, do you really think lawyers and school teachers and all other “service” industries are going to fund your looney nanny state here? You and the left can scream all you want about evil dirty manufacturing business, but they pay the bills and you don’t. Your whole life is dependent on another industry’s wealth creation to make it better without screwing someone else. Do you understand that (redistribution means someone wins and someone loses, wealth creation means more to go around and everyone wins)? Cut the phony crap mister and look at the balance sheet. It’s really bad now nationally and getting worse. You are not going to climb out of a $100 billion hole in California or a $16 trillion dollar hole nationally by continuing this rabid obstructionist ideology.

» Wales on 05.07.10 @ 08:19 PM

This professional propagandist has it exactly backwards.  Even if his numbers on job losses are correct, they aren’t due to any provision of AB 32, which won’t become enacted until 2012.  Setting a price on pollution provides a sure path to new jobs in California and the U.S..

» Richard Jensen on 05.08.10 @ 08:21 AM

Lower energy/emission standards to attract industry???  Not likely.

Study the path of manufacturing in the US over the past 100 years.  Labor costs and land costs have seen the slow relocation of most manufacturing from New England to mid-Atlantic to the US South.  Once that was complete, the jobs and manufacturing moved off our shores.

No doubt that manufacturing and productivity are sources of wealth, but so is clean air, clean water, low-cost clean energy, and effective transportation systems. Most importantly, the role of research and higher education will—over the long haul do more for a State than lowering the environmental standards to attract manufacturing.

» Overtaxed Taxpayer on 05.08.10 @ 10:32 AM

Biggest employer is Government—Thats terrible for a free society—Sub contract out all services to the private sector except Police.??

» Tylerle13 on 05.15.10 @ 01:37 PM

Publius is either a government employee and believes the junk reports from CARB, or they are working for the Political Public Relations Advisor, Steve Maviglio, and they are being paid to go on comment boards that are critical of AB 32 and repeat the lies that CARB and Arnold tell them to, so dont worry about what they say, its scripted and false.

The people of California will see through the lies put out by Arnold, Mary Nichols, and CARB and we will vote to suspend AB 32 come November. They can lie for pay all they want, but the rest of the state is fed up with losing their jobs and homes because of lies and fraud.

CARB has been exposed as frauds on almost every single report they release and it has got to the point that they need to hire some damage control experts to clean up their mess by repeating the lies. They are trying to use the “If you say something enough times, it becomes the truth” method of fooling the people of California, but it wont work this time.