Posted on 08/04/2008 5:21:13 AM PDT by foutsc
I’ve been trying to work it from the outside. Supporting the the up and coming with donations, and email campaigns, and of course, opinion on blogs, etc.
“Thus California has been able to stay afloat and even thrive”
Are you sure you want to say that? LOL
In report: “The state’s economy would collapse without illegal immigrant workers, who are changing the face of the state.”
And, if we were to base our business models on an illegal strategy, we’d be fined, lose our contracts, and possibly go to jail.
“And, if we were to base our business models on an illegal strategy, we’d be fined, lose our contracts, and possibly go to jail.”
Right. Honest businesses are at a disadvantage when dishonest businesses can ‘game’ the system. Illegal immigration erodes the respect for law.
“Illegal immigration erodes the respect for law.”
Not to mention, it punishes those that respect and abide by the law.
I fled a very nice six figure income job in Cali in 2000, never looked back either.
Yes, they fit the working definition of insanity. They want to impose the same policies but somehow believe the results will be different.
Policies have consequences.
Boy, it seemed like that when I lived in Oceanside/Monrovia from the late 60s to the late 80s. I worked my way up from $7,200 a year to $35,000 (decent money in the beginning, subsistence wages later on).
During the Cold War years the Germans had a term for how the Communists worked. They called it "The Artichoke Principle". You kept peeling off a leaf at a time until nothing was left.
It was the same with California. I started noticing the ever-increasing auto "fees". The property taxes shot through the ceiling and my mortgage was going up in $100 increments (pre-Prop 13 days). Sewer, water, and power bills increased almost monthly despite our conserving at every turn. State income taxes went from once a year to being deducted from weekly paychecks "to make it easier on the taxpayer". I didn't buy that and knew what was coming. Sure enough, next year's tax was doubled. In the early days IRAs were not deductible on State taxes. By 1988 the last leaf was stripped away and we bailed out - and like others, never look back.
When I visit friends and relatives there today I am appalled at the crowding and Third World aspect the state has taken on. It seems to be a microcosm of what's in our future if the public doesn't wise up.
Do you know what happened back in September of 1850?
California became a state.
The State had no electricity.
The State had no money.
Almost everyone spoke Spanish.
There were gunfights in the streets.
So, basically, it was just like it is today, except the women had real breasts and the men didn't hold hands.
California, with all its beauty and resources, once held the promise of a beautiful future; however the promise has been destroyed by the recklessness, irresponsibility, and downright stupidity of millions of its citizens. And, yes, the fall of California would bring the entire nation to its knees.
There's a big problem with giving California its independence or returning it to Mexico, however. If we did, the Leftists would move to the remaining 49 states and continue their destructive behavior. They would not remain with the real estate that became Aztlan.
If there were some way to expel the real estate and the Leftists with it, it would be an excellent idea--an even better idea if all Leftists in the United States could be expelled with it--but this is impossible.
Even intelligent people living in California act as though they have been brainwashed.
When the subject of illegal immigration's overwhelming California and the rest of the U.S.A. came up, one highly intelligent, sophisticated, and well educated friend responded, in usual Leftist manner, with a mindless platitude: "I think anybody who wants to come to this county to better himself should be allowed to do it."
When I replied that "California can either remain financially solvent or provide welfare for Mexico but not both," he looked as though I had doused him with ice water, as though this had ever occurred to him.
When I commented that the Mexican immigrants I have known have always been good, decent, family oriented people--that some have shared my values concerning property rights and rights to protect their families and raise children as they deem wise--that one Mexican man said to me "If the government can tell me what to do with my property, then I don't own my property!" et al.--and that I have liked all the Mexicans I have known, both in the U.S. and in Mexico--but that U.S. immigration laws should be enforced and unlimited immigration will overwhelm the U.S.A. and could, if of sufficient magnitude, destroy the United States--he confessed: "I've never liked Mexicans. Neither did my father."
LOL! You Rock P8riot!
We have many Mexicans in our Irish/Italian family. It has nothing to do, really, with them being Mexican. It’s all about our Country, not their race.
I don’t understand why people can’t separate this in their minds.
BTW, our family has had a lot of fun with names. LOL
Normal, hardworking, taxpaying traditional American families flee.... Losers and parasites remain, even as more of their ilk are attracted.
I think Leftists are basically racist. They think in terms of groups and races. They even tend to speak of Islam as if it were a race rather than a religion. Leftists tend to be narrow minded, shallow, and to think in two dimensions--unaware of spectra, multiple dimensions, and shades of meaning and reality. Obviously, I have little respect for the Left if any.
Many Leftists are just plain stupid. Some are good people but are horribly misguided. And many of them are malicious and sociopathic.
When you hear these people talk about how they LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE everybody--hold onto your wallet.
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