Posted on 11/03/2010 9:15:22 AM PDT by The Jimmy Z Show
I wrote this on my 'alternate' Facebook page - where I keep my friendships with musicians and the like, who are generally good people but have no idea what the hell is going on. I never talk politics there, but what has happened today in CA is a travesty of such enormous proportion, it boggles my already heavily boggled mind. Maybe CA needs to be trashed completely before people wake up. Maybe if they go to the beach one hot summer day, and it's closed, they'll wake up. Maybe if they can't get on the freeway without paying by the mile they'll start to think differently. Liberalism is one thing, but mindless leftist robot voting is another. It's not just ignorant, it's now quite dangerous.
And many of you can laugh and carry on about how crazy voters are here - and they are - but you better be careful because this state has a huge economy, even now as gutted as it is. And CA has the juice to take a lot of the country down with it if we don't get our collective s**t together. Anyway, here's my note to my liberal friends, some of whom are really hot women who will probably hate me now. But I don't care, because I probably should have been speaking up a long, long time ago. Enjoy.
Barbara Boxer: The people of CA, hardest hit by a lack of jobs, re-elected one of the chief architects of this economy that has given us 22% unemployment [CBS News] in our state. I have to ask those of you who voted for her: Don't you !@&$^?! get it? Or you home owners:
When Jerry Brown repeals Prop 13, and your property taxes triple (like they did LAST time under his 'leadership'), will you be upset? If you lose your house, who will you blame?
Now over to Prop 23: When the CA Air Resources Board insists that you pay 25¢ per mile to drive on the freeways [San Jose Mercury News], will you think even for a moment that maybe -- just maybe -- you weren't paying enough attention? Did you even know that C.A.R.B. can do pretty much whatever they like to enforce AB 32, including raising gasoline to $9 per gallon? [According to CARB themselves]. Our state is on the precipice of being completely broke, and the voters just created a perfect storm for these people to finish the once Golden State off. And if you think I'm exaggerating - or making things up - fine, laugh at me. But one day I'm going to follow you to the gas station and laugh at your dumb ass.
I know many of you do not share my political views, but one thing we surely agree on - we love this state. With every election, the voters are making it more and more impossible to live here. Businesses and major corporations are leaving the state. Some of our finest recreation land and parks are being shuttered. Arnold just sold the ?!@$?#?^%?& Orange County Fairground for God's sake! And you voted to keep things going in this same direction? You know I very rarely if ever post politically, because I have a lot of respect for all of you, and I realize that good people do disagree. I know that people on the left and the right both love this country. I know that Republicans and Democrats are both patriotic care about this land. That has not changed.
But what really bothers me, deep down, is that I don't think many voters at all did a little leg work to find out what they were really voting on. You saw a commercial with a mother holding a toddler, who was taking a breath from a large inhaler, and you said "oh we can't have that! No on 23!" I could go on and on - Meg Whitman understands business and how to get things moving again. 22% unemployment! That means that more than 1 in 5 Californians is, at best, unable to find full time work as they used to have. But you voted for Jerry Brown, whose history is there to see. He has said, on his radio show, that our state needs MORE welfare and LESS jobs. He said that - word for word - I'm not making it up. And as stupid as that is, as ridiculous as it is to think that voters would give ol' Jerry Brown a second chance to ruin the state - You did it. You voted him in.
I'm not upset because my 'side' lost. I'm pissed off because CALIFORNIA lost! I'm grieved because my beloved state -- where I have grown up, gone to school, played in the surf, fallen in love, worked hard, enjoyed such great times I could never recreate them in a thousand years -- is crumbling. We are watching the demise of what was once the envy of the nation. Hard working employees are leaving. Soon, there will be government workers and people on welfare, and nothing else. Again, you think I'm exaggerating? Look around you. The state is losing its collective grip on reality.
No, I don't care about politicians - I wasn't so hot on Meg Whitman myself. I have no love for these political leaders on either side. But what happened tonight is that the California voters lost, and they don't even know it. And that's just pathetic.
--Jz
While the rest of the nation rolled up their sleeves ready to get some work done, Konnecticut was "0 for 6" in our congressional elections (all 5 Dem reps. and a lib-tard Dem senator)
10+% unemployment and mountains of debt and they played like it's bidness as usual - we don't deserve to be in the same Republic as the rest of the nation - what a bunch of bloody losers in this God-forsaken leftist hell-hole.
If I could get a few bucks for my house I'd move to a Red (read: Real American) state..............
I couldn't agree more, Psalm 73, and now the governor's race has apparently been stolen from Republican Tom Foley by obvious voter fraud in Bridgeport.
I with I could join in the national celebration today, but after working so hard with local CT Tea Party groups here to elect conservatives / Republicans, I just feel sucker-punched. Wish we could just pack up now and get out of here, but that's impossible for the foreseeable future due to family and work obligations. It just sucks...
Let’s just see what they do with the opportunity.........
>>I just feel sucker-punched. Wish we could just pack up now and get out of here, but that’s impossible for the foreseeable future due to family and work obligations. It just sucks...
Yup, completely agree.
I think, if possible, I actually feel worse than 08. At least nationally we have a little hope, but locally this state is a joke.
And I'm not trash, nor are my family.
But I sorta understand you thinking...........Ha!!
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
I am almost moved out totally, and am not lookng back.
I would like to say it’s been fun, but the last 10 years have been a disaster in CT.
And a “sore” Peter.
Can someone provide a link to Brown saying we need more welfare and less jobs?
Thanks!
Most ignorant post of the century. Congrats! There are plenty of us freedom loving conservatives who live outside of LA and SF like myself. Unforunately, I’m stuck here due to family obligations. I’ll be sure to mark OK off my list when I do bolt since it has pinheads like you. Besides, six months of winter ain’t my thing.
“but exactly what will happen?”
I envision a Detroit - like scenario. But statewide.
Never mind, I found it. Now I think I’m going to be sick.
We need a strong interpretation of the Tenth Amendment and a return to federalism. The states cannot continue to have the ability to pass laws giving themselves all kinds of expensive programs, then, when they can’t pay for them, head to Washington with their hands out.
Well written and spot on. However, I think maybe things are changing, CA is starting to address it’s structural problems instead of expanding the nanny state. Reported just today:
San Francisco Bans The Happy Meal
San Francisco has banned the Happy Meal, on the day of the return of the McRib no less. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors earlier today passed an ordinance requiring meals that included toys with their purchase to meet specific nutritional guidelines. The vote, achieved with a Gavin Newsom veto-proof majority of 8-3, effectively bans the Happy Meal.
At some level I hope CA exists in it’s present form as a glittering example of socialism and the progressive ideal. Sorta like our little Greece.
However, CA is done...many just don’t realize it yet. The link below is a MUST read.....
http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-10-20/news/let-it-bleed/
“We need fewer jobs and more welfare” Jerry Brown
That unemployment rate is going to hit 30%
Jimmy – as a native Californian who has occasion to visit CA every few years, it is my opinion that CA is slipping away from you. And, it does not appear you have any comfortable choices.
Imagine for a moment what it is that will be required to arrest and reverse the major forces and trends affecting CA and the level of trauma that will be involved.
Even before any reversal - how many years it will take to just get back to the break even point. If it happens at all, will it occur within your lifetime?
Decision time.
Good luck.
Why did you send me a Century 21 add?
Yeaaaaah, that’s probably why California is a welfare state that’s about to go bankrupt & come crawling to us for help.
Idiots, or undercover agents of the welfare state? California's Republican Party is thoroughly infested with the latter type - who would rather see Democrats win than fiscal conservatives.
It’s going to cost us so much money bailing out the irresponsible moochers in California. :(:(:(:(:(:(:(
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