Posted on 06/15/2015 6:43:47 PM PDT by artichokegrower
San Bernardino, once a sturdy, middle class "All-America City," is now bankrupt, the poorest city of its size in California, and a symbol of the nation's worst urban woes.
(Excerpt) Read more at graphics.latimes.com ...
Yep, although in his defense, he lived in the only nabe in Newark that never went full ghetto. He hated San Berdoo, as he could take neither smog, nor toothless women.
Thank you.
As I watched this baloney news story on Sacramento TV I cringed and wondered loudly to myself, "Who In The World Votes This Now Worthless Liberal Poppycock Into Something Not Even Close To 'Newsworthy?'"
Alas, it continues to be more of the same.
“People in CA don’t believe that any of this is a factor
of their liberalism.”
Which people in CA, all of us FReepers?
Preaching to the choir, I believe.
....a factor of their liberalism
....a symptom of their liberalism
....a result of their liberalism
My friends and family are conservatives.
I don’t know many liberals in CA.
I just know that there are more of
them then there are of us when it
comes to voting. But tho we are
fewer in number there are still
millions of us and it would be nice
to know that some of our FRiends
don’t lump us in with the kook
majority. If you have any interest
then you can click on my forum name
to learn why I and others stay here.
“Over the last three decades, the economy imploded. The rail shops and the nearby steel plant closed. So did Norton Air Force Base, costing the city 12,500 jobs. Downtown businesses vacated. Law offices decamped to Riverside when the federal bankruptcy and state appellate courts moved.”
I am a native Californian; and I refuse to leave the state I was born in and love.
I will not surrender my home to all the east coast and central states liberal communists who have immigrated here.
THIS IS MY STATE.
All those Lib/Prog/Dem/Commie BASTARDS that came here in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s can just go to HELL.
This is the only place in the world that I can go snow skiing in the morning (Wrightwood, Ca.), surfing by noon (Malibu, Ca.), and have a very pleasant dinner in 72 degree weather in the desert (Palm Springs, Ca.) in ONE DAY, without having a time machine other than a V-8 pickup truck.
How do I know this can be done? My Wisconsin uncle came out to visit me in late February of 1974, he asked my why I decided to stay in California after I got out of the Marine Corps, so I showed him.
I lived just across the highway (2 lane) from Holiday Hill Ski Resort in the Angeles National Forest back then.
Breakfast at the house (06:30), skiing for 2 hours.
Drive to Malibu (back before the Lib mobs, about an hour and a half drive), about 2 hours of surfing and lunch in Santa Monica on our way to Palm Springs.
Hiking in the desert until about 5pm then into the town for supper.
Home by 10:30 that night. Tell me any other craptastic state where people can do that!
The Campus Crusade for Christ group moved to Orlando a couple decades ago. I lived in San Bernardino for a couple years in the late 70s. I met some of the Campus Crusade people in my local church. They were good clean-cut kids and had a positive impact in our church. The demographics of the city and the job situation changed. Sad.
Great Graphic
I live the NorCal version of your life.
When I encounter some of those who post
as if conservative Californians don’t
exist at all I sometimes wonder if a
tad bit of the Caliphobia thing might
include jealousy. I love FR which is
Fresno based but I don’t live by politics
alone.
Did you see Newark NJ just gave Al $harpton the keys to the city? At the same time he received the keys to the neighboring welfare hives as well (East Orange, Irvington, etc.); he is now officially the “King of All Blacks in NJ”.
Newark is Baltimore without stores to loot.
It’s just that there seems that nothing can be done to reverse the liberalism of CA. Even Orange County is liberal now.
Should I read more later? No, that's probably all I need to know.
Maybe. But,I won’t stop fighting, I ain’t
leaving.
You can also do that on the big island of Hawaii
Just where is your Mojave or Sonora desert, and I don’t mean a small lava field.
Good for you, but the odds are insurmountable, as I am sure you know.
Many years ago, when my partner and I were inspecting a possible foreclosure purchase in San Bernardino, the woman who lived in the home said that it wasn’t too bad an area. The gunshots she has heard were a couple blocks away.
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