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
Crash and burn? I don’t know and of course the “innocent” people don’t deserve it. However, I can see more businesses moving out, higher property taxes and more foreclosures.
“Hundreds of thousands of these government employee union members voted for their own special interest, not for the good of California.”
If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you will always have the support of Paul.
For the past 12+ years the demonrats and incompetent RINOS here have been devouring the golden eggs the goose that was the California economic machine. Those eggs are gone and now with the loss of a 2/3 requirement for budgets AND moonbeam as Gov, demonrats will be sharpening their knives in anticipation of devouring the emaciated goose. The next two years have the potential to be hell, but they must remember - there are still ‘third’ rails that will trip them up, such as Prop 13, that can and would generate recalls during the ‘12 election cycle. All is not lost, just in critical condition on life support.
You’re right. It doesn’t have to be that way, but, that’s how most people learn, the hard way. Just like a drunk who keeps denying he/she has a problem, until that person hits rock bottom or dies. If it doesn’t kill them and it will unless that person changes, when they do change, they come back stronger and better than ever.
Same here in WI!
As an actual native Californian, I feel exactly the same way. I actually posted my disgust over re-electing Boxer on Facebook. I’m sure many of my well-meaning idiot liberal friends will defriend me, but oh well.
I’m in the northeast, and referring to the fact that NY swung left while America swung right, heard someone on the radio say they’d like to think we’re smarter than the rest of the country.
The left in our area didn’t learn a damned thing yesterday; we’ll continue to lose jobs and American residents, gain illegal aliens, and follow California on its path to irrelevance.
Kalifornia is going to look like Mexico in the next 10 years: no middle class, just peasants and aristocrats at the top. Folks will only wake up when the state if totally broke and on its knees. I have a lot of liberal friends also, and it is sad that they just don’t get it.
As a California resident (since 1969), and a conservative, I hope CA does not get bailed out. I want to see this state sink to the bottom. It’s the only possibility we have left to finally get rid of all the pieces of leftist garbage like Boxer, Feinstein, Brown and all the rest of the socialists who have ruined this state.
“Would have been nice to see a little bit more shift in states like CT, NY and CA though.”
On a positive note, one of the talking heads was saying that a bright spot for Dems was that they’ve hung on to NY and CA (!); imagine that is a “bright spot”?
At the very least, they should continue bleeding electoral votes as the (legal) population falls...
I feel exactly the same as you do, I love this state,but not its liberal politics and laissez faire, we’re going to live forever mentality.
I am not counting on a future here at all, and seriously considering moving to Texas now.
Please tell me that wasn't an actual commercial. Do these people (on either side) know what carbon dioxide is?
I saw the writing on the wall.
I'm not happy knowing I was right.
I took with me my family....four professionals nowadays. Four "producers"...
Unfortunately..my oldest moved back to SoCal. And is doing well...but I wish she'd leave. She'll figure it out...sooner or later.
I was one of those conservatives who left the state. Now I am in PA, and we are finally coming around, at least for this election cycle. I see the “Big One” hitting CA before they are a red state again.
You turn up, announce that you are Phred Nurke, sign against Phred's name in the register and cast you (illegal) votes. If the real Phred is not actually dead and he turns up what can they do? It's a secret ballot so they cannot nullify your (illegal) vote. Mission Accomplished.
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