Posted on 12/25/2012 2:02:32 PM PST by Kolath
Chevron is California’s largest corporation, but it seems to be making the move to becoming Texas’ largest corporation instead. That’s 800 jobs out the door which gives Chevron a larger presence in Texas than it still has in California.
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I agree. Listen to most of them talk. For a lot of them, it isn't even about political ideology anymore. They're simply engaged in a drunken orgy of power and personal enrichment.
Every greedy vermin who could do so, has managed to become a Democrat politician or power broker. They're a cancer on the body politic which is eating out its substance.
Our forefathers would be shooting by now.
So much for moving overseas. Just move to red states.
[Curly Dave]: Last I looked, Apple was larger than either one. Maybe not anymore since the stock is down.
See: Apple was 17th largest in revenue and third in profit (behind ExxonMobil and Chevron); ExxonMobil was number 1 in both revenue and profit. These were the latest Fortune 500 figures I found online.
See also: Depends on how you measure it.
Currently, I suspect that Apple has higher total stock valuation than ExxonMobil. The revenue and profit figures indicate that the profit margin is far greater in computers and electronics than in oil and gas.
Truth hurts.
You don't know me. You don't know my circumstances. You don't know what sort of life I lived in Cali, or what I did, or did not do, to try and fight back out there. You also don't know anything about what my wife and I went through, to make our decision.
You didn't know me. You didn't know my circumstances. You didn't know what sort of life I lived in California, or what I did, or did not do, to try and fight back out here. You also didn't know anything about what my wife and I went through, to make our decision.
So you tell me that if I had strength of will, like you, I would move.
You didn't know the first thing about what it took for me to make the choice to uproot RISK my family's life in California, yet you've got the gall to sit there and condemn me from behind your keyboard.
Your words again. Nice projector you've got there. Maybe now you understand why I busted you on it.
Go ahead, tough ass. Insult every single transplant on the thread, since you have such godly powers of perception, and have every fact to hand about all of our lives.
You do know that it was YOUR words to which I was responding. Seeing as you saw fit to insult those who choose to stick it out (which includes the founder of this site by the way) and in exactly the same vein as the invective you now sling, you deserved every bit of that reply. Thanks to your like, California may sink the whole nation yet, because it is absolutely big enough and strategically important enough to do so.
The grand enterprise that was leaving Europe for a New World cannot ever be repeated, because there dosn't happen to be another "open" hemisphere to take from its 125 million occupants (both witlessly and willfully). So I do suggest you give up on that tradition as outdated and ultimately ineffective.
The best of this country's history was built upon people who ran TO the battle, people who took up arms against all hope. The Marxists who invaded this State did exactly that, despite the fact that at that time the State wasn't to their liking. They beat the natives in the battle of ideas with a pack of lies. My family has been here the five generations to see it. My family built more than its share of what is great in this State. I have every right to note those who board the lifeboats, heedless of the vortex that will take them down too.
So, when Texas becomes a swing State, where will you run then?
I remember the Simpson’s episode from 1995 where a Hollywood movie crew came to Springfield to film the movie, ‘Radioactive Man’, with Milhouse co-starring as Fallout Boy. When the movie fell apart because Milhouse wouldn’t play his part and the townspeople started gouging the movie crew, the production team decided to return to Hollywood. Immediately upon hearing the news Mayor Quimby imposed a “leaving town tax” on them. I laughed and shook my head and figured this would only give the scumbag Democrats another idea.
Little did I know...
I love the memory of the state I grew up in, which is not the state that exists now. My feelings about going back are similar to those of an Iranian woman I encountered, who told me that she would love to go back to Iran--but not as it exists now.
I went back to visit family about 3 years ago. My impression is that CA is looking very run-down. All I can surmise is that the government is so big and bloated that the monies which should be going towards roads, bridges, and parks is instead going to line the pockets of bureaucrats.
RIP, CA. The Golden State is now the Tarnished State.
You know, if you'd started your exchange with me in a civil tone, and had you attempted to communicate a reasoned viewpoint (such as you're doing now), instead of hurling a load of unwarranted vitriol at me, maybe I'd have half a mind to listen to you now.
Even now, you're expecting to win me over with reason, but you apparently don't have the basic social skills to observe or understand that you insulted me and every other decent person who's chosen to relocate out of California.
Little tip: unless you couldn't care less about convincing me of your argument, or if you're simply trying to assert your rightness, then backing up and offering a simple apology is the way to resume the conversation.
You started this by laying into me with outrageous ad hominems, when I hadn't directed a single word your way. Let's see if you're big enough admit that was over the line.
California lawmakers can’t be oblivious to these facts”
Have you ever heard of Maxine Waters?
Amboy?
For the uninitiated, “Directive 10-289” is a major element in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” To learn more about it, go to http://capitalismmagazine.com/2012/03/atlas-shrugged-directive-10-289-redux/
Ex Dem Mom, The Working Man
Its gotten WAY worse.
I relocated in fall of 2010, and everytime I go back there are more stores closed, more potholes in the streets, and everything just looks worn out.
For a moment, those looked like the deck chairs on the foundering Titanic.
I thought they were Venezualan owned. If so, why don’t they prefer Chavez like policies? Texas should deny their move...
Daniel construction used to be a big name around this area but long ago it became Flour-Daniel and now I don’t hear that name any longer. I wonder what finally became of the Daniel name.
It’s what they do! We have some in South Carolina who sound like Nancy Pelosi, I pray that the insanity will end in a crash before the walking brain dead elect Alvin Greene as governor. Not that Alvin would be any worse than Jerry Brown of course.
Some of the most amazing creatures have come from up North and taken roots in Horry county in the past few decades. After Hugo slapped the state silly in 1989 one Yankee transplant told me that he would never worry about a hurricane again because “Hugo was nothing”. When I reminded him that Hugo didn’t actually hit Myrtle Beach where he lived he told me I was wrong. You truly cannot fix stupid. He saw a little breeze at the outer edge of the storm and decided it was nothing and there is no need to ever worry about a hurricane again. He completely ignored all the news coverage from around McClellansville and Charleston of yachts sitting jammed against trees far from the ocean and made up his own little fantasy to live in. In truth Hugo did far more damage in WESTERN North Carolina than it did anywhere close to Myrtle Beach. One of my brothers was in Charlotte and he described winds that were still hurricane force that far inland. Parts of the Blue Ridge Parkway were closed due to blowdowns. If Hugo had actually hit Myrtle it probably would never have recovered. It would have looked like Bay St. Louis, Mississippi after Katrina. I have seen that and a year and a half after the storm it looked like a pancake.
Most recently I heard a black dude tell someone that he had retired from his job in New Jersey and moved to South Carolina because the taxes were too high in Jersey and then follow this by proudly describing himself as a liberal. I suppose that the first chance he gets he will vote for some state giveaway programs and higher taxes.
Maryland has one
If you Blue States are sick enough to like the “Exit Tax”, then why not throw in an “Entry Tax” while you’re at it? Want to move to a high tax state? Well, it’ll cost you $25,000 because you can afford it if you are coming from a low-tax state. You could even tie the entry tax to how great the state was that you left.....if you left New York, you only owe $100, but if you left Texas or Georgia, you owe $50,000. That should lock mobility up good and tight, huh?
Get out before the “exit tax” is voted into law.
Might as well get out now before CA makes it illegal for companies to leave the state.
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