[dufekin]

Everything in California is so deeply disconnected from reality that I really cannot evaluate the wisdom of this contract. Given the ridiculous housing prices, desperate overcrowding of decaying infrastructure, escalated cost of living, excessive taxation, and paucity of common sense, you couldn't get me to consider moving to most of California even if you offered to quadruple my income. Perhaps southern California now experiences inflation (5% per year--this is a three-year contract) to a degree virtually absent in the remainder of the country. I'd say that the county's still ripping off its workforce--but then again, if I lived in California as a pauper, I would have joined the millions of American conservatives fleeing the state.

[goldstategop]

As soon as my home is sold, I'm fleeing California and never looking back. Its gotten absurd here. I might stay if someone offered me a ten figure salary - otherwise fudgitaboutit.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[nmh]

New Jersey is getting just as bad. We have a 7% sales tax and the clown wants to raise it to 8% next year. He's waffling alittle on that one ... he'd rather have the counties do the taxing and not him to pay for state benefits and over priced, lazy state workers and all the "social services". It's sickening.