Nissan Moving North American Headquarters

Nissan Motor Co. announced Thursday it is moving its North American headquarters and nearly 1,300 jobs from California to the Nashville area to take advantage of the lower cost of doing business in the Southeast.

Hey, at least Schwarnzenegger tried:

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he talked with Nissan officials two or three weeks ago when he heard of the potential relocation, but learned the company had been considering the move for two years.

"I wanted to find out `What is it that you need to stop you from moving to another state?'" he said Thursday. "And they said 'Look, the things that we need are so overwhelming that you can never provide them because you would need to change a tremendous amount of laws, the tax code and so on.'

And what are your precious union leaders doing to ensure California doesn't keep bleeding jobs like this? Just demand higher wages and more benefits for their members and drive even more businesses to bankruptcy, relocating or hiring illegal aliens?