We already went through this horseshit.
If California slid into the ocean, it would fix the problem and we could also get rid of a bunch of hippies.
Without California, the U.S. economy would collapse and you would all starve.
Top publicly traded companies in California for 2011 according to revenues with State and U.S. rankings | ||
State | Corporation | US |
1 | Chevron | 3 |
2 | Hewlett-Packard | 11 |
3 | McKesson | 15 |
4 | Wells Fargo | 23 |
5 | Apple | 35 |
6 | Intel | 56 |
7 | Safeway | 60 |
8 | Cisco | 62 |
9 | Walt Disney | 65 |
10 | Northrop Grumman | 72 |
11 | Ingram Micro | 75 |
12 | 92 | |
13 | Oracle | 96 |
14 | DirecTV | 110 |
15 | Occidental Petroleum | 129 |
16 | Amgen | 163 |
17 | Gap | 167 |
18 | PG&E | 177 |
19 | Health Net | 179 |
20 | Edison International | 198 |
21 | Qualcomm | 222 |
22 | Jacobs Engineering | 250 |
23 | Western Digital | 251 |
24 | Applied Materials | 259 |
25 | URS | 267 |
26 | eBay | 269 |
27 | Sempra Energy | 274 |
28 | Synnex | 281 |
29 | Visa | 297 |
30 | Gilead Sciences | 299 |
If California were a country, it would rank around tenth in the value of goods and services produced.