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
California’s world will have ended by 2012,as for Governor elect Brown he is unlikely to do anything but find himself with limited options.
The rest of this country with the exception of some of the Stupider States “cough”Massa”cough”choosets’will most likely be able to actually start rolling some of the recent insanity.
No worries.
And conservatives are dreaming if they believe that whatever “family values” most of these unassimilated immigrants may hold will ever overcome their propensity to vote for the “gimmees”. It hasn’t happened with the black vote as a bloc, even as they have more middle-class voters, and it won’t happen with the Latino voting bloc as a whole. The tide of new immigrants never ends, and they always vote for the gimmees. The rats offer more and more bribes on the taxpayer dime to ensure this while “empowering” them as a victim class.
what is a “kamala harris”?
While the rest of the country rejoiced, I was sickened to see what happened in CA.
The irrational nature of the voters made me so sad. You couldn’t talk sense into anyone - but I never stopped trying.
Now, I’m just sad.
I really wish the best for Cali & most certainly hope you get your collective s**t together, but my rep & senators damn well better vote NO NO NO if you come asking for a bailout.
In fairness, if Pennsylvania comes asking for a bailout, your reps very much should vote NO NO NO as well.
I had to look up...”1965 Immigration Reform Act”
Found this article. A must read.
The High Price Today of Immigration Reform in 1965
By Ben Johnson
http://hnn.us/articles/1175.html
America’s current mass immigration mess is the result of a change in the laws in 1965. Prior to 1965, despite some changes in the 50’s, America was a low-immigration country basically living under immigration laws written in 1924. Thanks to low immigration, the swamp of cheap labor was largely drained during this period, America became a fundamentally middle-class society, and our many European ethnic groups were brought together into a common national culture. In some ways, this achievement was so complete that we started to take for granted what we had achieved and forgot why it happened. So in a spasm of sentimentality on the Right and lies on the Left, we opened the borders.
SNIP
Chief among national concerns was total numeric immigration. Senate floor manager and Camelot knight-errant Ted Kennedy assured jittery senators that “our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually.” Senator Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, further calmed that august body, insisting “the total number of potential immigrants would not be changed very much.” Time has proven otherwise. Average immigration levels before the 1965 amendments took effect hovered around 300,000 per annum. Yet 1,045,000 legal immigrants flooded our cities in 1996 alone.
The 1965 “reform” reoriented policy away from European ethnic groups, yet implemented numbers similar to 1950’s rates in an attempt to keep immigration under control. However, members of Congress managed to miss a loophole large enough to allow a 300 percent in immigration, because they did not take into account two “sentimental” provisions. Under the bill, immediate family members of U.S. citizens and political refugees would face no quotas. Their likely impact on the nation was ignored, presumably because aiding families and the dispossessed cast the right emotive glow.
Dittoski...
Great message.
But HOW, HOW, to get through to the many ignorant voters?? We won’t get through to real leftists, but there is a majority of Democrats that are badly informed. I believe most of them would vote at least economically conservative if they UNDERSTOOD ECONOMICS and were given true facts.
Yep, I agree. My tagline pretty much says it all...
Battle cry of the next 2 years:
No Bailouts for Socialist California!!!!
Aloha Jimmy! Glad to see you FR (I commented on this posting on FB). Hang tough. It ain’t over.
If you can ever sell your house, come down to Florida!
We will be forced to leave the state.
I could tolerate the evil politics for one more So. Cal sunset!
I bet you it will get bailed out. The only chance that it won’t is if Bachmann can pull together her Constitutional Conservative caucus and have them block it.
**I bet you it will get bailed out. The only chance that it won’t is if Bachmann can pull together her Constitutional Conservative caucus and have them block it.**
Bailing out CA will open the door wide to bail out other states. NY and CA alone could bring the economy to it’s knees, and bring down the whole thing. Give them ONE dollar, and they will demand trillions more. Every special interest group, pension, union, and government office will have their hands out, and the bailout will be expected EVERY YEAR moving forward.
NY and CA may need to be sacrificed, to save the whole.
It’s an ugly truth, but there is no saving either. Republicans, had they won in either state, faced unsurmountable issues. They would have failed.
Let them sink, let the Dems take every ounce of responsibility they deserve, default, and start over. Break every union contract and pension. Then, they might have hope.
I got out of CA last year. I love CA, but I can’t afford it, and I saw the writing on the wall. I fear for my friends who remain. It is going to be ugly on the ground everywhere in the state. I fully expect marshal law or troops in the streets within a year. Any company with an ounce of sense will get out, now. Those that remain, will be driven out of business. Oakland and major stretches of LA are one riot from complete chaos, and there will be no new police added under Brown.
Pelosi, Boxer and Brown can have CA. Anything good was used up or driven out years ago. Get out, now, before it’s too late.
**I bet you it will get bailed out. The only chance that it won’t is if Bachmann can pull together her Constitutional Conservative caucus and have them block it.**
Bailing out CA will open the door wide to bail out other states. NY and CA alone could bring the economy to it’s knees, and bring down the whole thing. Give them ONE dollar, and they will demand trillions more. Every special interest group, pension, union, and government office will have their hands out, and the bailout will be expected EVERY YEAR moving forward.
NY and CA may need to be sacrificed, to save the whole.
It’s an ugly truth, but there is no saving either. Republicans, had they won in either state, faced unsurmountable issues. They would have failed.
Let them sink, let the Dems take every ounce of responsibility they deserve, default, and start over. Break every union contract and pension. Then, they might have hope.
I got out of CA last year. I love CA, but I can’t afford it, and I saw the writing on the wall. I fear for my friends who remain. It is going to be ugly on the ground everywhere in the state. I fully expect marshal law or troops in the streets within a year. Any company with an ounce of sense will get out, now. Those that remain, will be driven out of business. Oakland and major stretches of LA are one riot from complete chaos, and there will be no new police added under Brown.
Pelosi, Boxer and Brown can have CA. Anything good was used up or driven out years ago. Get out, now, before it’s too late.
Left home at 11 years old and became homeless to avoid the beatings of his father. Came to the decision to leave home after his father came to see him when he was in the hospital after a severe beating. Lived on the streets, empty garages, put himself through school, became a successful business man and then mayor of Watertown for three terms.
This guy is the real McCoy.
The sad part about these two races — Fiorina/Boxer; and Whitman/Brown — is that in the end, it wasn’t even close. Most of the rest of the country at least recognizes a problem is afoot and wants to take steps to rectify it. Not so for Californians. They’re just happy to muddle along in a socialist fog.
I grew up in NorCal. I have many good memories of life in that once-great state. Thankfully, after I left in 1976 to join the Air Force, I never moved back, as over the years I saw clear evidence of its rapid decline. My family members still live there and I get out there occasionally to see them, but I would never move back. I’d rather live in the United States. In many respects, CA is like a foreign land.
My body, heart and soul are here in the (increasingly Red) Old Dominion of Virginia.
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