CALIFORNIA: A VENUS FLY TRAP FOR BUSINESS

By Attorney Jonathan Emord
Author of "The Rise of Tyranny" and, "Global Censorship of Health Information"
February 7, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

California’s thirty-seven million residents, one tenth the population of the entire United States, form a tempting market for businesses worldwide. Many enter the California market only to discover that having done so may well cost them their livelihoods. Like an enormous Venus Fly Trap, California lures into the state business with its enormous consumer market only to crush it periodically with abusive litigation. Is it any wonder, then, that over 204 companies left California in 2010 to relocate their operations in other states and that unemployment in the state is now 12.5%? That dire circumstance is destined to continue.

In 1986 California voters unwittingly began the movement toward their state’s economic implosion. In that year, through a direct voter initiative, they adopted by 63% to 37% “the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986â€