Jack Kingston: “I want to speak on the State of California and this whole issue of really mandates on employers, because that is what we…”

“I want to speak on the State of California and this whole issue of really mandates on employers, because that is what we are talking about. It is not the 80/20 split. It is just one more mandate, more Government intrusion. But there was a great movie several years ago called Billy Jack, and I have got to tell you my anecdote, but one of the lines was that Billy Jack came up to one of the bad guys and said, ``You know what, Duncan,'' and I am going to pick on you, ``I am going to put my right foot on your right cheek, and you know something else,'' he said, ``No,'' he said, ``there is nothing you can do about it.'' I will say this, having studied the fact that you all passed that work comp allowing stress, the fact that you have a 700-percent increase in claims and that your permitting process when businesses want to add on, sometimes they have to go through 25 local agencies and 35 State agencies and seeing what they have to go through, to raid California right now as an outsider, it is fruit like California oranges is ready to pick, because your business climate, in my opinion, has been ruined by Government taking fish out of the water to keep them from drowning.”