California Cataclysm

In the seventies there was a bumper sticker circulating around the Denver area that read,”Don’t Californicate Colorado.” which I think was a reference to the swelling population of the golden state, which was rising at a fever pitch at that time.

In a mere twenty some years that trend has reversed and for the first time in many years more people are exiting California than entering it.

That within itself may not be a bad thing as parts of the state are severely overpopulated. But the problem is the kind of people who are leaving. Many of them are retired people who have found that the neighboring states of Arizona and Nevada are much cheaper to live in while still offering the kind of perpetual summer they enjoyed in California.

These people were a stable part of the tax base and quite a tax base it is. Taxes in the state are prohibitive and unfair and they have spiraled ever upward for many years until the burden is just too much to bear for ordinary folks.

They have also taxed businesses until they refuse to put up with it any longer and they are leaving in droves, taking with them jobs and payrolls. California has lost around 280,000 jobs in recent times and even in our most populace state that’s got to be an economic kick in the head.

What happened to California? It’s a state which has almost everything, excellent year around weather, mountains, an ocean, desert, golf resorts, movie stars, Silicon Valley, a thriving wine industry and some of the most fertile soil on the North American continent.

In my opinion California has fallen victim to out of control politically correct, one size fits all pseudo socialism.

California politicians have attempted the impossible task of trying to please everybody.

How can you give retired state employees 90% of their salary when they retire? How can you allow illegal aliens to attend state universities for less tuition than the people from neighboring states have to pay if they want to go to school in the state.

Nobody really knows, or apparently cares how many illegal aliens there are in the state, but I’m sure that the tax paying citizenry are very concerned with the drain they represent on the social services.

The state government of California has become an inefficient, top heavy, nightmare bureaucracy passing out tax bills with one hand and handing out entitlement checks with the other.

Could California be a microcosm of what this whole country is going to become if we don’t stem the tide of illegal immigrants and get some people in congress who realize that it’s not their money they’re spending.

What will happen to California? Is Arnold really the answer, a man who claims to be a social moderate and a fiscal conservative. Are not these two things a contradiction in terms? I guess we’ll see.

Could California be a microcosm of what this whole country is going to become if we don’t stem the tide of illegal immigrants ...

How about stemming the tide of DEMOCRATS? This is an article Charlie wrote about three weeks ago, someone probably posted it already on freep, but I just had to mouth off on this. It drives me nuts when people blame the problems in Cali on illegal immigrants, or taxes or population or this or that when the source of all these problems is completely ignored. DEMOCRATS!!! DE-MOCK-RATS!! The democrats are the evil monster, and people just refuse to face this! WHY? Democrats care about one thing and one thing only. POWER. Why is this so difficult to understand? I`m not saying the Republicans don`t, but Republicans don`t focus on it 100%, democrats DO! They don`t care about anything else but power. They don`t care about the country, they don`t care about the citizens, they don`t care about running a state to the ground, they don`t even care about dying! judging by Paul Wellstones "memorial" All they freggin` care about is POWER!! They would sell their own mother out for a vote and they prove this time and time again, from Clinton pardoning FALN terrorists (terrorists for Gods sake) who bombed NYC and Chicago 130 times to buy his wife votes in the Senate race, from moron Davis giving unions 90% pensions for union votes and on and on. Look at it now, they are betraying they`re own country everyday just to make Bush look bad! "The Iraq invasion is a hoax" said Sen ted. Gee, how nice. Please god, let there come the day when people will wake up and do away with this vile party, just vote them out of existence. The `rats thrive on power and if people would just cut off the power supply once and for all, it will die and go away, but like some sort of sick cult, we keep getting people every election day who choose to "power up" the monster to let it eat us alive again and again. Like some sort of sick perverted desire for abuse, we get people who actually say to themselves; "So what if Hitlery put our lives in danger by getting her husband to pardon terrorists who refused to renounce violence, I want her for President!" Say WHAT?

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