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
The same applies to GAYsachusetts.
California won’t be getting bailed out and that’s going to force changes.
I live in Commiefornia and I am disgusted. Truly at the naive, ignorant, zombies in this state that either do not have a brain or do not know how to use it. Disgusting. May they get all they deserve here and more.
Sad to say... most of the Conservatives moved out of there and what you have left is a majority of brainwashed, entitlement seeking socialists. I hate to say it, but CA HAS to CRASH and burn before a change takes place....
True but, at least, California has sunshine and blue skies.
Massachusetts is a shit hole with grey skies, cold and snow.
Not to mention lazy.
ditto New York
and two lesbian commies moved to conyers GA in April. from a life long voting of dems and now they are on California disability payments own a house free and clear because one of their fathers gave them cash to do so when he died.
my sister in law in this case bailed on her own parents when they needed her most in their old age, leaving me to take care of them.
and two lesbian commies moved to conyers GA in April. from a life long voting of dems and now they are on California disability payments own a house free and clear because one of their fathers gave them cash to do so when he died.
my sister in law in this case bailed on her own parents when they needed her most in their old age, leaving me to take care of them.
Since 1992 with the help of millions of illegal aliens and the departure of much of the white middle class, I, too, have painfully witnessed California’s transition from Reagan Country to a solid blue state whose politics is nearly identical to New York.
This might get their attention:
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/10/why-california-is-about-to-fall-off.html
When you post here, you are talking about FRiends. We are like minded. I don’t think anyone that is your FRiend didn’t vote any different than you did.
I hope you are right. California was going to/did ask for a bail out. Then, they would probably blame the rest of the country for their problems.
The Demoncraps in Michigan got slapped sooo hard yesterday that their F’in Grandchildren will limp!
Republicans now control 100% of Michigan state government!
Thanks Jimmy, good post/rant!
You can add to your ignorant fellow Californians that if they think that the rest of us in the responsible or reasonably responsible states are going to bail them out then they are deluded by all of the crap they are smoking. They can fall into the Pacific for all most of us care.
Has anyone actually looked at what will happen to the people in California if the state does “Crash and burn”? We can say that people would really be hurting but exactly what will happen?
What bothers me more than Boxer and Brown is the fact the frickin’ idiots voted in prop 25, doing away with the 2/3 majority needed to pass a budget. The thing is we probably have more voter fraud than any other state in the Union due to the amount of illegals living in this state and the lack of voter ID requirements.
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