TO MY IGNORANT FRIENDS HERE IN CALIFORNIA

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.

You have that reversed. Mexican President Calderon was a critic of Prop 19:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/10/mexican-president-felipe-calderon-strongly-criticizes-marijuana-legalization-measure-proposition-19.html

Why would they want to grow up to be pot farmers if the price dropped drastically ? Pot can be grown anywhere in CA climate, and if anybody that wanted to could legally grow a few plants in their garden, there would be no market for any farmer anywhere to make a living on. It would be like if stores demanded $20/lb for tomatoes — nobody would buy them anymore, they’d grow them on their own patio. There’s never big money in legal and easily grown agricultural products. Pot literally grows like a weed if it isn’t systematically being eradicated. Taking the big money out of the pot industry would wipe out all those growers in northern CA that are currently providing for the semi-legal-wink-wink medical users. It wouldn’t valuable enough for anybody to try to make a living growing it anymore.

I've been away for a while but I wanted to respond to your post. You are absolutely correct in your assessment of how immigrants vote. That's why the Democrats did what they did. If the 1965 Immigration Reform Act had never been passed, America would be an infinitely better country today. We would be at about 265 million with a much smaller growth rate, a much stronger economy, and a much more stable political situation. The Democrats would be the minority party and even those Democrats would be more conservative or at least less liberal. Bill Clinton would never have been president and it goes without saying Obama would be putting up posters on telephone poles in Chicago or whatever.

Yes, the immigrants will vote for goodies and 90% of them don't have a clue about what it takes to be a responsible member of a democratic republic. I've look at the election results for the last 8 or 10 elections and my suspicions have been confirmed when you breakdown how various ethnic groups vote. In the cesspool that is now California, liberalism rules thanks to immigration. This in spite of the fact there is a good 40-42% Conservative population. But they cannot overcome the lunatic white liberals (who are just plain evil in my opinion) and the ethnic groups who have their hands out for the goodies.

God help us.

You are right, but I also think that perhaps when people hear some people from California-and other high tax, tightly regulated states-talk about moving to red states with lower taxes, that unless otherwise indicated, they may be the so-called “fiscal conservative” who loves the joys of lower taxation, but doesn’t understand that fiscal conservatism combined with social liberalism is one of the very things which leads to those higher taxes and regulations.

Just as with the Labour party in Britain, I believe that the rats here knew full well what they were doing when they turned the taps wide open on immigration and turned a blind eye to the illegal immigration pouring over the border. Members of Labour have admitted to deliberately flooding Britain with immigrants partly for the reason of “sticking it” to the conservatives, and because they knew it was more votes for their socialist agenda. To think that people could so blithely destroy a nation and a great civilisation from such petty motives. Well, not so petty, from their point of view-which is perpetual power that they don’t need to fight for in the democratic market of ideas. Just like here, they can’t win on the basis of the truth of their agenda. That’s why the rats here always rebrand themselves-ie from liberal to progressive-and always maintain that they didn’t frame their message well when they lose-it’s never that their message was rejected. It’s tough for them in a way, because they can’t just tell the truth-that they intend to inflict socialism on us-so the “spin” is all-important for them.

To think that people could so blithely destroy a nation and a great civilisation from such petty motives.

Boy are we on the same page. Just as I said that white liberals are just plain evil. Either that or terminally stupid, or perhaps a little of both.
Regards.

thanx4 the message. i do agree after the Wed hangover that the weather here is worth a few $K 4sure, however, the prop taxes rise here in Marin County is usually at that local max limit 2%. That combined with the ‘raising’ the value of our home because of improvements we made to an old countrystyle house from the 40’s is against the nationwide norm of home values dropping. I just remember what $100K would buy in Texas where here, you've got to go 6-10x up for less SqFt. But i do admit, these houses aren't the quicky slab/sheet-rock ‘mansions’ that so many TX builders do.

I am buoyed by your reminder that Prop 13 overturn isn't a 4sure deal. And, i too don't know another outpost yet i would Uhaul-it2. However, i remain vigilant.

I hear you loud and clear, but except for that liberal bastion of Austin, the state of TX is VERY RED.

Houston can seem very liberal at times, but everyone i knew there in the work-force were all freedom loving conservatives, fiscally and politically; depends on the circles you swim i guess. B4 i left, voted against all those big tax stadiums they built to no avail and now i pay thru the nose to ‘visit’, ie, the taxes were mostly on the hotels, etc.

I’m quite proud to say i was born in TX and raised in LA... freedom and food in that order!

Pocatello has it beat. Roughly the same amount of annual precipitation. Never hot and humid. A few rare days with a temperature inversion that holds pollutants in the valley vs gross smoggy skies most of the time in San Diego. Less traffic. Lower cost of living. Parking at the airport is free. No annual smog certifications (that cost me 3x the purchase price of my 914 Porsche in San Diego...zero since moving). Pocatello has a natural source of water sufficient for the population. We don't have cities threatening fines for watering on the "wrong day" or washing the car. Freeways are 75 MPH and not crowded. No need for traffic reports every 10 minutes.

I will concede occasional annoyance with deer, elk and moose nibbling on my plants in the front yard during the winter. We've had skunks, porcupines and wild turkeys wandering in the front yard too. The Idaho State University mascot is the Bengal tiger, but the more common wild life on campus is a mountain lion.

You live in Idaho and complain about San Diego being cold?....lol

Pocatello has it beat.

OOoooook...You have fun up there with that world class weather!

Hi again,
LOL - Wed hangover! Lots of celebrating, eh? ;)

It’s too bad your local voters have gone for property tax increases. Takes away the only thing good w/r taxes in this state. But....I won’t feel too sorry for ‘ya since you have perfect weather year round!

Our house in Texas was really nice, had fancy mouldings and such - but wasn’t at all what I’d call cheap, compared to cental CA. It was comparable in price. Actually now, non-coastal CA houses might be cheaper since TX houses have held their values much better.

RE Prop 13 - remember Gray Davis was recalled for increasing the Vehicle License Fee (I think that was what it was called) and that was only to the tune of couple of hundred dollars a year for those with several cars. If Moonbeam tries to raise our property taxes, I don’t think he’d last too long either. CA tends to vote like idiots - except where their pocketbooks are concerned. I’m hoping. And also looking for jobs in OH at the same time ;) I’d love to have Kasich for governor.

Nice talkin’ to you again!

You’re lucky, I much prefer the 4-legged thieves over the 2-legged gangbangers and various assorted other criminals in urban areas :)

But then I live in Mississippi and no one ever notices that we exist, and I like it that way:) I wouldn’t live anywhere else after all these years, except in an undiscovered mountain “holler” in Appalachia, if I had to move. The kind of place that might have a snake-handling church hidden away (but I’d have to skip those services, I hate snakes!)

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