Eregon wrote:
Don't blame the Obamanation - blame the Unions and the States!

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Texas-business-states-CEO/2010/05/24/id/359954?s=al&promo_code=9F17-1

Newsmax
Texas No. 1 on 'Best-for-Business' State List for CEOs
Monday, May 24, 2010 12:59 PM
By: Dan Weil

Texas ranked as the No. 1 state for business in a recent survey of CEOs
published in "Chief Executive" magazine.

Closely following in the poll of 651 CEOs were North Carolina, Tennessee,
Virginia, and Nevada. Rounding out the top 10 were Florida, Georgia,
Colorado, Utah, and South Carolina.

As for the bottom of the barrel, California led the way, followed by New
York, Michigan, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.

"Texas is pro-business with reasonable regulations, while California is
anti-business with anti-business regulations," one CEO told the magazine.

The CEOs ranked states in three main categories: taxes and regulation,
skill of the workforce, and quality of living.

Perhaps not coincidentally, nine of the top 10 - Colorado is the exception
- are among the 22 right-to-work states in the country, meaning that state
law forbids forcing employees to join a union to be able to work.
Meanwhile, all five of the states the CEOs ranked on the bottom do not have
such laws.

In addition, six of the 10 states CEOs like rank below the national median
for household income, while four of the bottom five are above the median.

Texas is where 70 percent of all new U.S. jobs created since 2008 are
based, according to "Chief Executive." The Lone Star State's tax credits
and incentives for businesses that move or expand there are among the most
generous in the country.

So it's no wonder that CEOs like Texas.

"You feel like state government understands the value of business and
industry to create jobs and growth," one CEO said.

I wish you guys would cool it about Texas.
We get enough migrants from the South and the North as it is.
I sometimes go hours without hearing a genuine Texas drawl.