Posted on 02/28/2009 7:04:04 AM PST by Bill Dupray
California is one of those big blue states, like New York, Illinois, and Michigan, that the Democrats have run for decades and where taxes are suffocating and freedom is limited.
But I don't really care.
It's a free country, and you can choose to leave those hell-hole states if you want to - I was born in Massachusetts, left 20 years ago, and never looked back.
But I saw this article about the utter destruction of California by the Left, and I shuddered for my fellow Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...
Looks like I got out in time.
I was born and raised in California, but I had enough and left about seven years ago. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to live there again; at my age there isn’t enough time left for them to clean it up.
[I really don’t care much about California. ]
Except for now it is DC policy for responsible states to bailout irresponsible states.
I live in California and have watched it happen over the past 40+ years. What’s incredible is the complete and utter ineptitude of our national Republican ‘leadership’ and their failure to effectively bring attention to situations like California, Michigan, and the other liberal messes across the country. You don’t even need to argue theory, you can simply point to what has happened when liberalism goes unchecked. And no one on our side has the cubes to stand up and say it, fearful that they will alienate Mexicans or fruits or freeloaders.
Being an ex-Californian may be an indicator of intelligence.
The red state blue state standard only serves to divide and it’s mostly fantasy anyway. Michigan is a far more conservative state than many but after a decade or two of the GOP telling us to screw off, they can’t really expect anything different.
The truth is that the whole nation would be better off if Arnold and the liberal CA Democrats jacked up taxes and bankrupted the State of California. At least we would have a clear demonstration that liberal ideas don’t work.
it’s fine east of the mountains
With the caveat that California is the Democrats' leading vote fraud laboratory...to the point where it's not actually possible to say what percentage of voters actually cast ballots for which party, and how many actually got counted...
Thanks Captain,
Our military takes a government check. You might want to be more specific.
You’re welcome!
Gingrich does that. Watch his CPAC speech. He talks extensively about Detroit, and what the left has done to it.
Nam Vet
I decided some 15 years ago or so, that I should forget my previous plans to return to California to retire, perhaps somewhere along the northern California coast. I don’t want to retire in a lunatic asylum where overpaid lawmakers in California dictate how I must live, and how much money I may have.
So screw it. I’m not moving back.
I’m not saying that intelligent conservatives have all left. I think I’m saying that no intelligent conservative would move there unless the pay was really, really good.
Detroit is the same way. Fraud is institutionalized and the GOP never raises any hell about it. It’s so blatent that Detroit ignores court orders to tally their votes until the rest of the state’s votes are tallied. (gotta know how many votes they need to manufacture.)
Please. I said takes, not deserves.
“but after a decade or two of the GOP telling us to screw off, they can’t really expect anything different”
What does that mean?
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