To the editor: I doubt the Chapman College researchers whose gloomy report on the California economic system Joel Kotkin writes about in an op-ed article have spent a lot time on our blue-collar streets or speaking to the enterprise house owners there. They may be informed for those who can’t discover a job (or begin a enterprise like a meals truck) in California, you’ll be able to’t do it anyplace.
The small producers for which I labored and bought items for 40 years in Southern California didn’t whine about laws or social points. They have been extra apprehensive about uncooked materials costs and supply and develop their companies. They didn’t have federal subsidies like Tesla, nor did they fret about shareholder battles over fattening quarterly earnings as Boeing and others who largely left California have.
The Chapman literati ought to climb down from their heights and decide up a few of their trash as they go.
Drew Irby, Lincoln, Calif.
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To the editor: Wait — what?
Did this text simply state, “During the last decade… the typical annual pay for these authorities jobs was nearly double that of personal sector jobs”?
This sounds horribly unfair to the typical taxpaying private-sector employee. Feels like one thing The Instances would possibly need to examine.
Chris Hordan, Hermosa Seashore
