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Posted on 12/17/2010 12:47:14 PM PST by JudyM
The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. I wanted to witness, even if superficially, what is happening to a state that has the highest sales and income taxes, the most lavish entitlements, the near-worst public schools (based on federal test scores), and the largest number of illegal aliens in the nation, along with an overregulated private sector, a stagnant and shrinking manufacturing base, and an elite environmental ethos that restricts commerce and productivity without curbing consumption.
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You and others may be interested in the 89 comments to this same VDH article posted on Wednesday. FReeregards.
The same is true of major portions of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
The same is true of major portions of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
It’s just a matter of time before it is an openly violent Chicano Separatist War.
Is CA really that bad? Yikes, lol.
Sounds like the third world.
*bump*
Another good one from VDH.
If a Chinese or Russian intelligence officer were reporting this to his superiors, he might get incredulous reactions
I do wonder what the uber powers intend to do with the dependent sloth class of Americans some day in the future when we are a vassal nation
for later
Step 1, open up the water to the valley.
Step 2, enforce immigration laws.
Step 3, remove all welfare, health and education goodies for illegals.
Step 4, cut taxes in half, regulations by 90% for all CA farmers.
Sad part is... California voters, by their choices made 2 November, seems quite satisfied with the status quo. With the passing of their state-wide cap and trade law, it’s quite clear the majority in that state aren’t interested in improving their lot.
I remember California’s beauty and greatness during the Reagan era. It won’t return to that greatness.. too much is arrayed against it.
seems=seem
Powerful...very moving.
The best thing that could happen to kalifornia at this time would be to formally go under - and not be bailed out. Anything else is simply postponing the inevitable.
The dhimmicrats continue to underwrite failure and we all pay the price.
Let it fail and the parasites will abandon it. Continue to subsidize it and we’ll only get more.
I remember sailing into SF in 1961, under the Golden Gate Bridge. California looked damned good back then.
If the immigration laws were enforced the CA farmers would go bankrupt for want of labor.
White kids aren’t going to do farm labor.
It's because our guv is becoming completely inundated with those of the redistributionist mentality.
I see it here in my town. We the taxpayers have dumped nearly a quarter of a billion dollars into the so-called downtown revitalization project. And now, after over ten years of this nonsense, they've been audited, and we find out that we've gotten almost nothing for that money.
Latest example, $90,000 for a "study" on what to do with all the schools that have been shut down. Like all the other studies, it will amount to nothing.
But our mayor and city council and county commission are satisfied, because they've redistributed the wealth. They've taken from one and given it to another.
Positive results are not the success. Redistribution is the success.
And the dupe voters keep right on voting for these clowns.
Scene right out of Atlas Shrugged.
I’ve always liked Victor Davis Hanson’s writings, but this is really outstanding.
And scary.
It’s not just illegal immigration. It’s also inner cities, and every else.
The liberals who make the rules and the police who enforce them have decided that only productive people need to obey the rules. The rest can do as they like.
I’ve noticed that pattern in crime stories from England. But it’s increasingly true here, as well.
Obviously unsustainable.
“How odd that we overregulate those who are citizens and have capital to the point of banishing them from the state, but do not regulate those who are aliens and without capital to the point of encouraging millions more to follow in their footsteps.”
Not odd at all, he knows it; the end of all (at least 90%)government is to regulate the law abiding.
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