Posted on 11/03/2010 10:21:51 AM PDT by JohnThune2012
Come to GA and request political asylum.
I will take in a Cali FRefugee
Yes, California has committed suicide, there is no stopping it now.
Where I live it is all Cowboys & Redneck farmers.
No stinking commies and hippies here.
Most people who live away from LA & SF areas are not RATs.
If we could slice off a swath of about 30 miles from the coast this would be a totally Rat free state.
Two words sprang to mind this morning when I read of the dopey electorate in Caliph-phonia: “Exit Strategy”.
The question is where to go?
Can’t move back to home town in Massachusetts, it’s just California with crappier weather.
Maybe closer to in-laws in Ohio (wife would like that I think). Again, the weather sucks, and I’d have to change jobs or work from home full time. Neither appealing at the moment. Plus the weather is even worse than Mass.
One last thought is Florida, near my brother in Broward County. Company has offices nearby, weather and political climate are both good.
Something to mull over in the days and weeks ahead.
I’m in NY and am planning to leave, but not just because the state has been trashed and my fellow New Yorkers just elected tons of donkeys. Despite all of that, making a choice to leave is not one I am willingly making because it is my home, and some of the best things that have ever happened to me have happened right here. My wonderful husband is a native, my son was born here, and I had a great career and all the trappings that come with it until it all just evaporated. I am leaving as matter of survival because it isn’t going to get any better. I am in my early 40s, just young enough to start over somewhere else and maybe have a very modest retirement if I find a decent place to go. If I stay here I will end up with nothing and not be able to take care of myself.
It would be more interesting to split the state into Western California, consisting of the coastal counties, with the rest of the counties in Eastern California. If that were the case, Eastern California would be one of America's "reddest" states, while Western California would also be "red"--in the manner of Cuba and North Korea.
I have a few more years before I can leave and then we are going to move to Reno.
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
’relax,’ said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!
Well, it doesn’t explicitly remove the 2/3rds vote for taxes, but it may open a loophole. We’ll see how it plays out, but let’s hope it doesn’t or we are really screwed.
Well you certainly do have many more memories and experiences than I do in the formerly Golden State—now I call it the Brown State.
However, I am at least grateful I was able to witness the fading glory of the Golden State before it fell into complete anarchy and chaos.
I hope PROP 25 is challenged in court. It seems odd that a simple majority of voters in a midterm election can undo a 2/3 requirement. I don’t know the legalities, but it would be interesting to see if this proposition is unconstitutional.
I’m a Texan living in Ca. We don’t run. The more overwhelming the odds are and the more hopeless the battle the is, the better.
Look at the election map of California and then look at the San Andreas fault ...
California will be save when the big one happen and everything on the west of the fault fall in to the sea
.... OR..
Inland California and coastal California splits in to two different states
If too many of the “taxpayers” move out, California will ‘topple over like Guam’.
“In California, Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown have beaten Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, two Republican candidates tailored for the Golden State, professional, centrist, and without any of that establishment-disturbing Tea Party craziness like certain lady candidates in Delaware and Nevada. And they both lost. I think we're seeing in California the limits of the democratic process in a Big Government state. The statist workforce and the dependency class can outvote the productive class. And, given the number of Californian small businesses who'll be ordering the U-Haul in the morning, that electoral gap will only widen in 2012 and beyond. California is Greece: The arithmetic does not allow for meaningful correction. The question is whether Texas and other non-insane states will volunteer to play Germany to Sacramento's ouzo-swiggers.”
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/3564/26/
“The limits of the democratic process.” Let those words sink in, with all their bleakness. Also, bizarrely, some segments of the "productive classes" in California, ie. Silicon Valley and Hollywood, are rabid liberals. California will not change until some event, some harsh retribution, completely alters the social and institutional structure of the state.
I would love to move out of this state, but unfortunately am anchored here by a massively underwater mortgage, which I am not delinquent on.
I live in California, but I am not a Californian. I have a family to take care of and a good job or I would leave immediately. As soon as I find another job out of state, I’m gone. Don’t have any anchor’s like a house to slow me down and would love to move to Texas, or any where in the southeast or Midwest.
If anyone knows about good job that might fit someone with M.S. in Chemical Engineering and process engineering/process integration experience in a cleanroom environment let me know. I’m not too particular as long as it gets me out of Cali.
We’ll be sad to leave some dear friends behind, but won’t miss the general stupidity.
California is done.....stick a fork in it.
Because the right thing to do after you build a life for yourself in a place you love, a home for your family, friends, business, community... is to run away. Jeez. It was an election. One of them is headed back to Washington, and the other can’t screw the pooch much harder than it is already.
Real Californians (home of Ronald Reagan and FR) will stay and fight for the state, thank you very much. And do so in t-shirts and jeans in December.
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