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Posted on 09/23/2004 11:20:28 PM PDT by NationSoConceived
I heard they banned hand washing also...to save water of course.
NOW DO YOU SEE WHAT I'VE BEEN TELLING EVERYONE?
This came right on the heels of the latest Liberal campaign to raise the minimum wage, too.
The Californian government appears to have one goal in mind: to produce the laziest, dumbest, most criminal- and Aztlan-friendly citizens (not to mention illegal aliens) in the entire United States.
If it wasn't so tragic, this state would be a joke.
Is it safe to say that California is insane??
Yep. This clinches it. CA is populated exclusively by the mentally-challenged.
California went insane long ago. What you're seeing now is the inmates running the asylum.
California is notoriously anti-business. And this little PR stunt by the Liberals is going to have a still-greater impact than anyone imagines.
You see, with the banning of hand-weeding, growers are going to need to start using machinery or start producing lower crop yields. Considering the plethora of "environmental impact" laws on the books, most growers will either get it up the tailpipe with fees or penalties, or they'll take it up the tailpipe with smaller yields. Either way, prices will go up, quality will go down, and the businesses and consumers will suffer for it. Eventually, consumers inside and outside of California will use products from elsewhere.
Meanwhile, California will continue its slow decline into Third World Nation status.
A few years ago, California was the 5th largest economy in the world. Thanks to the Liberals, it's now the 6th largest economy. Unless the Republicans around here can grow a pair and start doing something to rescue this state, I predict that California will be the 10th largest economy by the end of this decade and the 25th largest by 2020.
That's what happens when the tax payer has to pay for every illegal alien that slips through the border!
Wait a minute? These workers had a union? They paid union dues?
Why didn't the union work with the employers to help pay for the new tools?
*sigh*
Actually, that's just a small part of the tip of the iceberg. The first warning sign is when emergency medical centers all across Southern California start to close down because they can't keep losing money.
Y'see, all the illegals don't have legal jobs, so they don't get insurance and thus go to the ER every time they have a sniffle. The ERs start going bankrupt and start shutting down...one-by-one. All the while, the Liberals squeal that illegal aliens put more into our economy they take out (a claim that is total bullsh*t considering that the U.S. operates at a $10 BILLION net loss every year thanks to illegals).
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Who is the bigger fool? The fool leading the pack, or the fools that follow them?
CA is a cesspool, and has been for a long time. Anyone that lives there must agree with the insanity foisted on them by their elected leadership. Anyone with an ounce of sense departed from that leftist utopia a long time ago.
AMEN brother
Funny...I was specifically thinking about healthcare. My wife worked in a dialysis unit when I lived there about 10 years ago and 3/4 of the patients were illegals. And WE were paying for them.
I noticed the same thing when I had to go to the emergency room with shortness of breath (turned out to be pneumonia with pleurisy). The place was a din of Spanish chatter. I would have bet a week's pay that less than 1/3rd of the people in the waiting room were U.S. citizens.
Okay, so what is left? Trained goats? Can somebody train goats or sheep to eat only weeds? Or perhaps somebody can train Californians that the weeds are actually a new vegetable, part of your healthy lifestyle!
Fine. Find all the farmworkers who are battling over this practice. Eliminate the illegals from their midst. Pay the remaining ones three times what they were making (since 3 out of 4 of 'em are probably illegals), and tell 'em if they work hard enough, we'll pay them even more. If we as a nation decided to shut up and pay $1.95 for a bag of carrots instead of $0.75; we would save untold billions in healthcare and social services spending. Also, those workers who will end up taking over the jobs of the illegals, if properly paid, will want to keep a good thing going, and will actively support keeping the illegals out.
So if you buy organic food in a store, you are supporting a practice that injures the backs of the workers who grew the food for you. How mean-spirited.
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