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Nobody is stopping them, you're missing the entire point.
Nestle is leaving, that isn't necessarily a bad thing if you're California as your water is more important than the jobs.
You are making this about forcing them out when only you have said that.
Nestle water is not leaving California, not are the 5000 jobs associated with it.
It's just the US headquarters of a foreign company that's relocating, one blue state for another. They have been shopping Eastern states for the past two years. Virginia made them a good offer.
I agree. Virginia is far from a blue state, its always been a very red state until recently, there are just so many foreigners in a Northern Virginia place like fairfax county, half the student population speaks a language other than english at home. So much government spending in suburbs around DC to make everybody wealthy , lucrative D.C. lobbying jobs and huge number of federal government workers , Northern Virginia is full of people who rely on Uncle Sam.
California only does innovation and agriculture, and the latter only survives because of natural strengths. Can't do manufacturing anymore, liberals completely killed that off. Can't hold a non-tech corporate HQ to save our lives. Can invest in futuristic high speed rail to connect farm towns, but can't support the dams that provide water to millions. Can't irrigate much of our fertile soil, but can save all kinds of little fish barely the size of a sperm. Can't build ports that actually export much, because we don't build much. (Port of LA has a 6:1 import:export ratio)
Fresno, Stockton, Merced, Bakersfileld and the Central Valley really take a beating from this, and still have nearly 10% unemployment. Even Santa Cruz, down the road from Silicon Valley and San Jose, has 6.5% unemployment.
We're great at innovation, which is also great at creating massive income equality.
Fresno, Stockton, Merced, Bakersfileld and the Central Valley really take a beating from this, and still have nearly 10% unemployment. Even Santa Cruz, down the road from Silicon Valley and San Jose, has 6.5% unemployment.
Central Valley is taking a HUGE beating because of Trump's immigration policy. Right now, today, crops are rotting in the fields because the field workers, fearing deportation, have disappeared. It's tomato harvest season and the fields are empty of workers. MILLIONS of dollars are going to be lost if Trump continues to give California farmers his middle finger.
Be prepared for higher prices in the produce section. IF you can even find the California-grown produce what you want.
Trump's minions will continue to diss California and Governor Brown....but Trump is causing havoc in the farmlands of California.
A town getting water from a river or a well, making it sanitary and providing the distribution infrastructure to get it into a person's house is a lot different from bottled water companies draining towns dry and leaving a plastic mess for society to deal with.
Most towns do not dump raw sewage into streams and oceans anymore.
The towns and cities also have elected representatives the citizens can monito
Imo, have your bottled water. Put a deposit or charge on the bottle to pay somebody to clean up that chit.
The end user should pay the true cost.
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