Business Climate
Gov. Pete Wilson is currently a cold-hearted block of stone to the lawyers and special interest groups. But to the California business community and their employees, he is preserving our hope and dreams for tomorrow. Whatever the underlying motive for their attacks on the business community, these lobbying groups are seeking to pillage the foundation that can provide the financial assistance to our most needy citizens and California’s anemic education system.
The Column One article (“Business’ Gripe With California,” Sept. 12) by Patrick Lee gives further insight into the frustrations of small family manufacturers, which our legislative leadership has ignored. Recent Times editorials have also been “on target” concerning those economic frustrations and our workers’ compensation problems.
It is now the duty of California’s entrepreneurs to encourage other state legislators to believe in the ingenuity and tenacity of business leaders and our employees. Together with bipartisan action, we can resolve the problems of this devastating recession. Politics aside, Pete Wilson is currently “in tune” with the business solutions that can put California ahead. Those solutions are long-term and can provide the jobs to meet California’s demanding public. His decision to call a special session on the issue of workers’ compensation reform is truly timely and desperately needed.
DAVID GOODREAU, Chairman, California Industrial Leadership Council, Glendale
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