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Who killed California?
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| 7/7/9
| Bill Gram-Reefer
Posted on 07/07/2009 1:56:36 PM PDT by SmithL
Instead of accepting responsibility California Democrats are willing to blame just about anyone for California’s imminent bankruptcy. In a brief reality check, here are just a few more reasoned arguments concerning Who Killed California.
Joel Kotkin of Chapman University and editor of newgeography.com, lists his top five culprits for who cooked the Golden State’s Goose: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Public Sector unions, the Enviormental movement, the Busines Community(!), and Californians in general for not voting the nitwits out.
Dan Walters counters the crocodile tears of Senator Mark DeSaulnier and others of his ilk that it’s all Prop 13’s fault. Walters notes that California’s issues are political, “Proposition 13 has had a big effect, but it’s not so much its slowing the growth of property taxes as its inadvertent concentration of decision-making in a Capitol political culture that’s utterly incapable of acting responsibly.”
And finally, Bill Whittle runs down a long list of how California is issuing IOUs to the needy, but cash to legislators, its bloated workforce, and retired UC California professors.
TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: california; goldenstate; yourtaxdollarsatwork
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posted on
07/07/2009 1:56:37 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
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posted on
07/07/2009 1:59:09 PM PDT
by
Little Ray
(Do we have a Plan B?)
To: SmithL
I killed California, with my little bow and arrow - “cock robin 1964”
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posted on
07/07/2009 1:59:28 PM PDT
by
jongaltsr
(Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
To: SmithL
Cutting spending is not in their vocabulary...
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posted on
07/07/2009 1:59:50 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: jongaltsr
Californians killed California.
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:02:03 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: SmithL
An ADMITTED alien elected to office under false pretenses...
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:02:12 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
("We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction." - Sara Palin, quoting MacArthur.)
To: SmithL
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:02:45 PM PDT
by
taillightchaser
(When a democrat says "The American people" you know the next words out of his mouth will be lies.)
To: SmithL
I saw another article here that showed that every other state in the country (even New York) had a huge drop in welfare recipients since Clinton was forced to sign welfare reform. Well, every state except California.
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:02:59 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
To: 2banana
If they had increased spending commensurate with inflation since 1992 they would have a 24 Billion dollar surplus.
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:04:08 PM PDT
by
Mikey_1962
(Obama: The Affirmative Action President)
To: SmithL
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:04:17 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: SmithL
It's the voters to blame for the Californication of their own state.
But, true to socialist ideals, Obama will allow the rest of us saps to bail them out.
Sickening....
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:05:00 PM PDT
by
NorCoGOP
(Recession: friend loses his job. Depression: You lose your job. Recovery: Obama loses his job.)
To: jongaltsr
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:05:43 PM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(It is impossible to convince someone of facts or truth if they don't want to believe it.)
To: Lurker
>-(
The lack of a border is the problem.
BTW: It’s odd sittin’ in a corpse. Really odd.
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:06:22 PM PDT
by
bannie
To: bannie
Illegals and stupid liberals killed california.
The bad news(besides killing their own state) they are moving to Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Azizona...soon to be state killers there, as well.
To: Lurker
Californians killed California.
Liberal, socialistic, tree-hugg’n, God hating, baby kill’n Californians killed California.
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:09:59 PM PDT
by
Bitsy
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
To: SmithL
California has fantastic weather, a beautiful coastline and magnificent mountains for tourism, and massive amounts of natural resources. We should be overflowing with money.
Why are we broke?
-PJ
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:12:35 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
To: bannie
BTW: It’s odd sittin’ in a corpse. Really odd. My wifes entire family is in California. I've done everything but get down on my knees and beg them to get out.
They won't.
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:13:28 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Little Ray
“Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do! We Do!”
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posted on
07/07/2009 2:14:44 PM PDT
by
drew
To: SmithL
I go for this one! Anyone see a parallel? Well duh!
“Californians in general for not voting the nitwits out”
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