In the near future, the working-man”s friend, Meg Whitman, has decided to axe 27,000 jobs from Hewlett-Packard.
This comes at a time when our state needs all the help it can get in the area of creating new jobs.
It seems uncertain whether these jobs will be relocated to other areas or eliminated altogether.
One of our problems here is employers who “outsource” their base of operations to other states whose costs of business are lower than ours.
Most of us deal regularly with paying bills to an out-of-state location for local services. Any delay between mailing this month”s payment before receipt of the coming month”s bill may result in an annoying late charge.
The time is long overdue for state businesses to have a local base of operations, thus returning much-needed jobs to California workers.
Perhaps the state could offer an incentive to those businesses that do so, to benefit all Californians.
H.M. Finnie
Lucerne
