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Despite Gavin Newsom constantly saying, well, you know, one of the fourth largest economy in the world.

I told you yesterday that a good deal of the state is is barely surviving. We've got about

the a third of the state on Medicare. We have about 35% of the state says every month they got

to choose between either food or paying the rent.

And it's even it's middle class, it's lower middle class, working class, however you define

yourself, poor people, you're getting screwed by the government and then you keep voting in

the people who are screwing you, which is, it's really curious.

You know, we know about the $455 gas, which is going to get worse and the extreme taxes.

But one of the reasons, now, yesterday I spent some time telling you how unemployment is, is that 5.4%.

We are tied for number one in the country.

We have one of the worst employment pictures here.

You think that might be tied into the fact that California is rated number 50 in terms of business climate?

Yes. If you talk to business owners and they're polled regularly

every year, California has the worst climate to start or run a business in the entire country.

Number 50. Number 50. Huh. And we're number one in unemployment. There you go.

And there's a story that's tracked the number of companies that have left the state,

Bureau of Labor Statistics,

has found that California has been losing more companies

than it's been gaining since 2014.

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