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The Time Has Come for 51
American Thinker ^ | February 11, 2017 | John Steinreich

Posted on 02/11/2017 4:50:43 AM PST by Kaslin

After nearly three decades in L.A. County, Nestlé will soon move its headquarters from California to Virginia. This food services giant with an estimated $235 billion in assets worldwide will by the end of 2018 remove 1,200 jobs from a state that relies heavily on income taxes to fund its massive public sector.

Nestlé's exodus follows other big employers, including Toyota, Campbell's Soup, Dunn-Edwards Paints, and eBay – which took with them tens of thousands of jobs – and mirrors the flight of mom-and-pop operations, entrepreneurs, families, and individuals who have ditched the once Golden State for places where the weather is less clement but the business and tax climate is welcoming. With Republicans, conservatives, and Reagan Democrats hightailing it out of high-priced California, the remaining statist majority has a voice that is progressively increasing in volume, and with it, the call for a "Calexit" secession from the Union grows louder. With some cynicism and a bit of righteous indignation, many Americans long to look westward to San Francisco, L.A., and Sacramento and wave goodbye and good riddance.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: California; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: california; economy; flee; nestle; redstatesvbluestates; taxandspend; taxes
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To: bert
"Sand is quartz that has been crushed. It did not oxidize.

Yesss, and silicon is sand/quartz that by human intervention and the expenditure of a LOT of energy was converted to the pure element. But the energy arrow is in the direction to reconvert back to sand. Why do you think they have to enclose chips in hermetically sealed "cans"?

Note...never argue chemistry with a PhD Chemist.

41 posted on 02/11/2017 6:13:57 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: Wonder Warthog

you are correct..... I stand down

Sand is not pure silicon


42 posted on 02/11/2017 6:16:31 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: Flick Lives

In 1964, California actually began a rightward trend when Southern California Republican voters put conservative Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) over to be the party’s presidential standard bearer. In the fall, although the state went heavily for President Johnson, California voters split their tickets and elected conservative actor George Murphy to the US Senate. Later, Californians launched Ronald Reagan on his road to the presidency by electing him governor.

As late as 1986, Californians elected a conservative—George Deukmejian—to the state house.


43 posted on 02/11/2017 6:21:12 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Kaslin

CA has been able to flirt with collectivism because of their terminal addiction with Fed dollars. They don’t have the revenue to go alone and be the sugar daddy for so many dependent people and projects. No doubt most of their voters are not aware of this.

Not to mention they are dependent on other states for water and electricity.


44 posted on 02/11/2017 6:25:07 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: Vigilanteman
The rest of the country has too much invested there in terms of military installations and the like.

We can agree to a Hong Kong style of control for San Diego. I doubt the Californistanis would give a damn about keeping Fort Irwin and extending that to be a part of AZ or NV--not that we'd need to keep NTC. You wouldn't believe how much open space we have at Fort Bliss, TX, for doing the exact same mission. Would the Marines care about losing 29 Stumps? Doubtful, but, again there's lots of room other places for them that are probably not as crappy.

I say let 'em leave.

45 posted on 02/11/2017 6:29:13 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: gaijin

I’m conservative. California leaving wouldn’t wreck my world, but them leaving, we could stop it with deportation and a little force. If they do leave, how many of those millions are moving to other states ? Hopefully not many.


46 posted on 02/11/2017 6:29:57 AM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: Future Snake Eater
What's an AF Base? A couple of runways and a golf course?

Last time this issue came up the Union made a big deal about a pile of rock and brick in the Cooper River. That cost us 600,000 dead. Are we to make that mistake again?

47 posted on 02/11/2017 6:32:28 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: lurk

If Portugal can figure out how to be a country then CA could do it. There is no economic or physical reason why CA cannot be a country. The problems are purely political.


48 posted on 02/11/2017 6:34:50 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: gaijin

I’m conservative. California leaving wouldn’t wreck my world, but them leaving, we could stop it with deportation and a little force. If they do leave, how many of those millions are moving to other states ? Hopefully not many.


49 posted on 02/11/2017 6:36:44 AM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: central_va
What's an AF Base? A couple of runways and a golf course?

I thought it was a runway and a couple of golf courses? :0)

I agree, though. We let them leave, we establish some trade deals for the ports and produce CA is so famous for, and their massive internal problems are on them.

My one caution, however--in a fit of panic as their 'national' economy falters, I could see a sizeable agreement with China, to include basing rights, as a viable possibility. That's not a scenario to take lightly.

50 posted on 02/11/2017 6:37:10 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Future Snake Eater

China or any other belligerent country would be foolish to put bases so close to the USA. Not happening.


51 posted on 02/11/2017 6:39:51 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kaslin
When the hordes of illegal aliens are kicked out of Kalifornia, it may regain some sanity and become the wonderful place it used to be 40 years ago before it became a national cuckoo nest.

I say, give it one last chance before we write it off.

52 posted on 02/11/2017 6:39:55 AM PST by Gritty (Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving. - Iowahawk)
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To: rbg81

It is like so many on FR consider it a hellhole. If it is, and if the law of supply and demand holds true, then why are rents and home prices so high in the Bay Area, den of marxism and degeneracy that is supposedly is? If it’s so anti-business, why is the unemployment rate, at least in my deep deep blue area, low, especially for anyone with tech skills?

Personal opinion- the vast majority of citizens are moderate and sane; the MSM (and plenty on FR) pay orders of magnitude more attention to the loony .02 percent. For every protester you see at Berkeley there are hundreds of normal kids studying, working second jobs and living normal lives.


53 posted on 02/11/2017 6:41:19 AM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: central_va

Vandenberg’s a bit more than a couple of runways and a golf course.

Of course, we could legally treat it the way we treated Guantanamo Bay after Castro took over Cuba.


54 posted on 02/11/2017 6:47:02 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

****Why do you think they have to enclose chips in hermetically sealed “cans”?****

I know of no uses for hermetically sealed silicon. All industrial uses for pure silicon allow surface silicon dioxide, in fact count on it.


55 posted on 02/11/2017 6:47:29 AM PST by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: Kaslin

Dear LIBs: Please don’t come to where I live with your crappy LIB ideas. You are despised and ridiculed here.


56 posted on 02/11/2017 6:48:27 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: DuncanWaring

We could build AF bases all over the west. Think of the economic activity.


57 posted on 02/11/2017 6:48:41 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Ann Archy

If this ever comes to pass, it seems to me that the southern part would secede and the northern part would become the new 50th [not 51st] state


58 posted on 02/11/2017 6:51:49 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: doosee

Regarding state pension collapses, in anticipation of same, republicans should move legislation to disallow federal incorporation or assumption of any state or local pension system. Americans shouldn’t be saddled with paying for stupid local democrat policies.


59 posted on 02/11/2017 6:52:53 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: central_va

Just think. We will be getting rid of all those Hollywood loonie tunes too!


60 posted on 02/11/2017 6:58:42 AM PST by Gumdrop
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