Posted on 03/05/2009 5:39:50 AM PST by rellimpank
What went wrong in California? I think we can all agree on at least three observations.
First, California is by nature the most richly endowed region in the world. Nowhere else is there so much fertile land, watered by gravity-fed winter runoff from the majestic Sierra. California has ample supplies of oil and natural gas. Millions of acres of timber abound in its coastal and mountain forests. Temperate climate and weather allow outdoor activity almost year round. The coastline is over 1,300 miles long with two of the great natural ports of the world at Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay.
Second, prior can-do generations of Californians created an unparalleled infrastructure of dams, canals, and hydroelectric generation that once provided the state with ample energy, irrigation, and recreation. Its three-tier higher education system 110 junior colleges, 23 state universities, and ten University of California campuses once ensured a literate populace.
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Thanks for the ping!!!
Sir, I always appreciate your optimism, but even VDH, the most incorrigible optimist of the bunch, has finally come to write California’s post-mortem. What comes next is anyone’s guess, most to the realistic scenarious look pretty grim to me.
For further explanation I highly recommend “Mexifornia” by my future husband, Victor Davis Hansen.
Well, Hanson is just one man and he certainly is entitled to his opinion BUT if CA is lost then you don't really think that the rest of the country is not far behind now do you...
“What comes next is anyones guess, most to the realistic scenarios look pretty grim to me.”
United States of Socialism/Communism
Only in my dreams (sigh).
Two things...
“Make love, not war.”
and
“If it feels good, do it.”
Uh, his wife may have something to say ‘bout that!
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Well, actually I do...most of California's problems are shared by the rest of the blue states. California is only further down the road to anarchy due to the huge number of illegals currently residing here. The rest of the country is very close behind indeeed.
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