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Radio host Rich Zeoli hit the nail on the head when he called out California’s failing manufacturing sector. Sure, the Golden State still has factories, but that’s not the whole story. The real question is why a state with so much potential keeps driving businesses away with crushing taxes and endless red tape.
The numbers tell a sobering tale about Gavin Newsom’s California. Manufacturing jobs in the life sciences dropped by nearly 4 percent last year alone. That’s thousands of good-paying American jobs disappearing under liberal leadership that puts environmental extremism ahead of working families.
California may still lead in total manufacturing jobs, but that’s like bragging about being the tallest building while your foundation is crumbling. The state reached its manufacturing peak back in 1990 with nearly 2 million workers. Today, despite a much larger population, California employs hundreds of thousands fewer manufacturers than it did over 30 years ago.
Smart business owners are reading the writing on the wall and heading for the exits. Texas, Florida, and other red states are rolling out the red carpet for manufacturers fleeing California’s regulatory nightmare. These companies want to build things and create jobs, not waste time filling out government paperwork and paying sky-high energy costs.
Newsom and his Sacramento cronies love to talk about innovation and green jobs. But you can’t run a manufacturing economy on good intentions and solar panels alone. Real manufacturing requires reliable power, reasonable costs, and leaders who understand that businesses create prosperity, not politicians.
The state’s own data shows commodity prices are still rising while production growth is slowing down. That’s what happens when you pile regulation upon regulation and tax everything that moves. California manufacturers are getting squeezed from every direction while competing with states that actually want their business.
Meanwhile, hardworking Americans in other states are building the future that California is throwing away. Manufacturing workers in Texas and Ohio don’t have to worry about rolling blackouts or whether their next paycheck will be taxed into oblivion. They’re too busy making things that matter and supporting their families.
California could still turn things around, but it would require admitting that decades of liberal policies have failed. Until Newsom and his allies stop treating manufacturers like enemies and start treating them like the job creators they are, the exodus will continue. America’s manufacturing future lies in states that actually want to manufacture, not in California’s regulatory wasteland.
