California Loses Toyota HQ

Ouch.  Texas has stolen Toyota's North American HQ and the jobs that come with it.  This comes a few years after Tennessee stole Nissan's HQ.  I guess being the cultural capital of cool and "car culture" doesn't trump the crazy, anti-business climate in the Golden State.  This is fresh off the loss of Occidental Petroleum, which was less surprising, but still painful.

Hey, remember when California even lost the HQ of a shipping company to land-locked Arizona?  Ouch.

Rick Perry was recently up here in New York state selling the great business climate to long-suffering New York corporations.  He's doing something right, that's for sure.  At the very least, he knows an easy mark.