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
We’ll have to hope that some charity organization removes all the children from the entire state and the California leftist vermin all starve to death.
Quarantine the infection.
So post that link, please!
But street gangs still control almost all of Detroit.
And to elect a dead person is just plain stupid.
I would think that the rest of the nation needs to hold an intervention for Kalifornia but I don’t think they’ve hit rock-bottom yet. And to those Kalifornia FReepers who attacked me months ago for pointing out that either the majority of voters there are brain damaged or so left-leaning that they are beyond redemption, I have one question;
Who’s yer Governor-elect?
Who’s yer Senator-elect?
THAT is what I am talking about!
When it comes time (and it WILL) to bail out Kalifornia when it goes under, I say let it go under. It’s in the position it is in because that is what the voters WANTED!
Keep the faith California person. The short term extra pain that California feels until it hits rock bottom may be worth it in the long run. It’s like a loaded spring. The harder you push it in one direction, the harder the rebound. Example: I thought for sure Michigan would wake up 2 years ago after the horrible track record of Democrats there for the last few years. The Obama wave prevented that from happening. But look at the total wipe-out out of the blue that just happened in Michigan from top to bottom! I never expected that in Michigan! That’s how big a wave is needed in California to make a dent, especially because of jerrymadering (it’s ironic that you elected the guy who has his name immortalized in the word “jerrymandering”!). So keep the faith!
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...thank you for venting... i needed THAT! Living out here on the West Coast Marin County from the GR8 State of Texas (good play Giants!) has been weather wonderful, no 99% humidity, no 100+ temps... BUTT these lemmings remind me of the weed and coke generation that i grew up in. They never GREW UP. Scared children waiting for Daddy and Mommie to pay their gas bill so they can ride down to the beach and bum. They hang on to things with a death grip because they know eventually, the taxes they so willingly allow to grow ‘compassionately’, will come for them too. I can’t wait... it will be a great day to see these people who stick their hands in my pocket over and over have their arms broken. Like MR. Obamma said, we need to GO OUT against our ‘enemies’. The only way i know how to do that without a ‘weapon’, is to take away their spigot. Time to move back to Texas... a little heat, but NO lemmings. Then our small business can prosper and the cost of living isn’t designed to pay political elitists, lazy jackasses and illegal safe-city parasites.
Color me Gone
Consider the track record of people who move away from liberal hell holes because they are liberal hell holes. Time after time, they flood a much more conservative area, start voting in the same policies they wanted to escape, then start griping about the fact that the new place is becoming a liberal hell hole.
It’s not personal. But it is history.
And Santayana (sp?) was very wise.
Californians seem to think they live in some kind of Fantasyland where reality never intrudes. They’ve dug this hole for themselves, now they can climb out of it themselves - if they are capable, which appears doubtful. In any event, Americans should not pay to run their State and California, too. Under no circumstances should there be a federal bailout.
RE: “As a California resident (since 1969), and a conservative, I hope CA does not get bailed out. I want to see this state sink to the bottom. It’s the only possibility we have left to finally get rid of all the pieces of leftist garbage like Boxer, Feinstein, Brown and all the rest of the socialists who have ruined this state”
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Agree, as a CA resident since early childhood (1953!) I do not want the state bailed out. Let it flounder 100%; only then will there be any REAL change for the better.
The gangs, or Canada for that matter, can have Detoilet.
The rest of the state is nice.
Great response to yesterday’s election results in CA. I share those same sentiments about my own state of NY. It is so disheartening to watch these two great states cave to the wiles of liberal elites.
Great essay
well then, gov moonbeam will speed this process up.
I’m a solid conservative, native born Californian. Over my lifetime I’ve watched hordes of liberal carpetbaggers infest my state and drive it into the sewer. I wish they’d all just pick up and go back to where they came from, but that probably isn’t going to happen. At best, when I retire, I’ll move to some other state where they share my ideals, and hopefully welcome me despite my CA license plate.
I want the so-called “fiscal conservatives” to stay right where they are. If they can’t understand that their social liberalism is partly what leads to higer taxes and more regulation, then red states don’t need them to come f up their states with policies which lead to higer taxes.
Bingo! I recognized the problem in 1999 and
arranged to leave in 2000. Never returning to
live in CA. As a conservative, my vote is always
overwhelmed by the sea of leftists. Demographic
shift ended my voice in the CA political process.
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