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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (276079)	2/22/2006 3:53:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578701

Ted, as usual, good points, but I'll have to be brief: By now, you must have noticed that lines at banks, supermarkets, etc are much longer in CA than they were in OR. You must have lived in a very $h1tty part of California, because I haven't noticed any of that. I regularly shopped and banked in S. Pasadena, Pasadena, Carlsbad and Laguna Niguel.......I saw little difference between those places in terms of the lines. Here...when there are more than 2-3 people in line, they call for additional cashiers. It is very expensive doing business in CA....land costs, employee costs, insurance, etc are all astronomically high. I trust you are already aware of the reasons behind this, but most of those reasons have one thing in common: they are anything but laissez-faire concepts. I don't understand what you mean.......are you suggesting the free market is not in play in CA?