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14. Horseshit.

Wed Jan 23, 2013, 03:29 PM

Jan 2013

"Businesses have been threatening to leave California in droves" ever since I moved here over 30 years ago. Either it is an extraordinarily slow process or it isn't actually happening.

And in a typical bending of the truth (OK, out and out fabrication) Fallbrook Technologies is not "moving to Texas". They a San Diego-based company and already have operations in Texas, Michigan, China and Europe. They are simply expanding their manufacturing facility in Texas because they entered into a strategic partnership with another company last year.

I would like to ask one of those Fox "reporters" exactly why a company would leave a state that is somewhere between the sixth and ninth largest economy in the world with a huge pool of well-educated workers.

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