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
Paul is dead.
Well thanks...
BTW, don't expect anyone to answer the last two questions...
I agree. People who are powerholics don't deserve an intervention. The only way they can recover is to hit bottom first. They can get out only if they have the wisdom to realize what put them there.
Bump.
Bummed out here in CA too. Wish I could enjoy the great news elsewhere and the majority in the House.
I was attracted to Idaho because it is LESS humid than San Diego. My extended business trip in San Diego is pummeling me with skin rashes and athlete's foot. Problems I didn't have in Idaho.
I left Pocatello on July 5th...just as the weather warmed up. Arriving in San Diego, I found the coldest summer on record. Wonderful...NOT. Overcast and misty all summer except for 2 one-week stretches. The morning and evening traffic jam makes the commute an hour each way vs working from my home office in Idaho. A big waste of time and money. I don't have access to a kitchen, so I eat at local restaurants. That takes another hour for dinner. Sales tax is 9.75% in San Diego vs 6% in Pocatello. Gasoline prices are 30 to 50 cents per gallon higher in San Diego vs Pocatello. The half gallon of soy milk I purchase at the store in Pocatello is $2.99 vs $3.99 in San Diego.
I moved my sizeable firearms collection to Pocatello from San Diego. Many items are now illegal to purchase or possess in CA, but not in Idaho. I can never bring them back, nor do I want to do so.
WA and CO have been invaded by CA liberals. Their political demographics have shifted to the left.
BTW, snow on the lawn means I don't have to mow it. I have the weekends to read or do things with my computers. That's not an option in the summer when the yard demands a fair bit of attention. Cold outside means I can light a fire, put on a good movie and have my puppy sleeping in my lap. In the summer, the sun sets as late as 9:13 PM. That leaves 3 or 4 hours of light after work to zip down the roads on my bike. The earlier sunset in San Diego and crowded roads mean I rarely have sunlight after my work day.
If all the conservatives fled Congress, or Texas for that matter, would you expect those places to remain conservative?
I made the mistake of going to Idaho several winters ago, rented a car up there...Drove on the ice for several days and nearly froze to death...and aged several years....
When I got back in Southern Californian to 73 degrees in the middle of December, my Orange trees which were loaded, and never looked so damn good!
BTW, you being in Idaho and complaining about the cold in San Diego, is funnier than a barrel of monkeys!
Third World California will be begging for a bailout.
I say, let’s give them a boycott instead..produce, wine, etc.
Your fedgov has got you into 13 **TRILLION** in debt, for the next 25 generations and your worried about California?
lol...
No more gringo money left to mooch and loot.
Third-World CA should lawyer up with their “discrimination, feminist” savior....Gloria Allred to save them once again!
Your fedgov has got you into 13 **TRILLION** in debt, for the next 25 generations and your worried about California?
Precisely!
Hmmm...I didn't think so...
I wasn't amused. It was sunny with temps from 70 to 90 in Idaho. At the same time, San Diego was gray, overcast, misty with temps from 45 to 63. A pissy summer in San Diego. Recall, I'm a CA native who grew up in San Diego. Most of my life between 1956 and 2001 was in San Diego. It went down hill fast in the time frame from 1969 to 1983. I moved from Chula Vista to Mira Mesa in 1983. The ghetto moved north and arrived in Mira Mesa around 1995. The drive-by shootings and gang graffiti became common by 1998. It was time to find a new place to live. I did. I'm happy with my choice.
I wasn't amused.
San Diego has some of the best climate on planet...Better than many climate zones in the Mediterranean region..But hey, I guess Pocatello Idaho has it beat!!
:o
Yep. And what are the Californiacs going to do about it? Vote Democrat??
I live in Oregon, and the best we could do is split the state house.
However, I am very excited about Fly Over country. You know...the Country Class.
Face it...the NE and the west coast are where liberals dwell.
God love the middle of the country for herding them in high concentrations to the outside margins of the country, for the most part.
In 2012, I will be concentrating on, and sending donations to, those who live in Fly Over country.
If we can get the numbers we need there, we’ll be fine, even though we don’t like the governments in the states in which we live.
“but so did Mexican marijuana farmers”
How so ? If Prop19 had passed, Californians would have grown their own and the price would have fallen. Basic economics — more supply = lower prices. Demand would not have increased anywhere near enough to offset the new glut of supply.
So Mexican farmers would have lost more if Prop 19 had passed. As it is, their profits are guaranteed to continue.
Voters for Whitman were those most concerned for the economy in the next year and those who are personally worse off financially. White women and men voted for Whitman. If you are old enough to remember Gov. Jerry Brown Part 1, you were least likely to vote for him.
Last I looked Orange County had less than 40% turnout, below the state average, so those Republicans stayed home.
L.A., the middle coast and Bay Areas once again sealed our fate. That only the GOP AG candidate, likely because he was from L.A., could be competitive paints a grim picture. Everyone else basically lost by 10%. Meg & Carly could've done that without spending half what they did.
Potentially far worse than Brown is that 50% budget approval.
Why did Mexico’s president urge the passage of the bill? He knew we had to buy the buds at least somewhere; also, Mexicans would do the picking Americans wouldn’t do.
Imagine how this would have changed things for children in California: “When I grow up I want to be a pot farmer”.
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