15 Depressing Facts About The State Of California

BusinessInsider ^ | 4/1/10 | Gus Lubin

[Kartographer]

Since the recession compounded a long-standing budget crisis, the Golden State has collapsed into a vicious cycle with no easy way out.

Unions interfere with budget cuts. Cutbacks emerge from somewhere and the people riot. Neither the Republican governor, nor the Democrat president has a solution, except hope to hell that the housing market picks

up again.

Oh yeah, and they're running out of water.

[Marathoner]

Most of the "facts" are California's poor performance, by liberal standards. Fell from #1 to #48 in per-pupil spending is not a metric I'd be upset about.

Yep. Too bad they couldn't reach the point of honor, #50.

[Mariner]

Yeah, well, we have great weather and the prettiest women.

AND, some areas are worse than others.

Still, I wouldn't want to be in LA or Oakland when the check don't cash...

[OB1kNOb]

Greecelifornia?

[Ditter]

Beautiful pictures, looks like the Texas hillcountry.

[truthguy]

It once represented the pinnacle of what America was meant to be. The liberal fools in their clueless, juvenile insanity have nearly pissed all of that magnificent largesse away.

Yes, the Liberals/Democrats killed the Goose. But these people are in denial. I talk to these people all the time. They cannot face reality because it will force them to admit that most of what they've believed their whole life is wrong. That's a cold shot.

[SoCalPol]

Major medical and biotech here.
With BomaCare around the corner, Boma is throwning
you docs under the bus. Really ashame.

Have a relative here who is a doctor in his 30s.
A Navy doc. with the 1st Marine Div.

[re_nortex]

Bakersfield is great. Conservative town. I just bought some property on the Kern River just west of there.

Thanks for the ``inside story'' about Bakersfield. Later that same year (1992) business took me to up to Healdsburg by the Russian River. My host was astonished when I tactfully told him I actually preferred Bakersfield. Sonoma County was just too liberal for my tastes. It was also too chilly (both the people and the climate).

[truthguy]

California is not going to be in drought this year. Rainfall has been pretty good.

[CougarGA7]

I miss the drive through liquor windows. ;)

[Yogafist]

Not to mention it is arguably the most beautiful state in the Union. With the highest mountain in the contiguous 48, the second lowest place on earth, the tallest trees in the world, the oldest living tree on Earth...and I could go on. Probably why it was so appealing to liberals.

[arthurus]

I sure hope you didn’t take California to Texas with you. Many such emigrants do just that.

[muir_redwoods]

California is reaping exactly what it has sown. I am very sorry for the many good people that live there and voted against this madness but the majority chose this fate.

[EricT.]

Great, a bunch of posts by the last remnants of conservatism in CA showing tourism board photos, all in an effort to divert attention away from the failed socialist craphole police state they live in.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

No heaven on earth is right here in The Great Smoky Mountians of North Carolina.

Sorry, there are no mountains East of the Mississippi River. We folks out West would call those "foothills". If they don't have year-round snow on their tops, they aren't mountains...:)

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Our problems are largely social and political which is impacting the economy. California has reached that glorious state where the people cannot win, they cannot break even and they cannot get out of the game. (One glance at the composition of the legislature explains all.)

[Straight Vermonter]

Nearly 70,000 California homes were foreclosed on in Feb. -- the nation's most

Yikes.

[dangerdoc]

I was Battalion Surgeon for 3/5, HQ Battalion, 3rd Tracks, and for a very brief period, acting Division Surgeon. I loved my Navy days.

I’m very afraid that California is going to be looking very closely at the “winners of life’s lottery” as they look for a way to pay for their wild spending.

I’ll be back visiting next month, we’re spending a week in Carlsbad. We’ll be looking at real estate again but my heart isn’t in it. Now if there were an armed insurrection in Sacramento between now and then, then I’m in.

[desertfreedom765]

The costs for prisons is dwarfed by the costs for schools and health care. (for illegals)

[SoCalPol]

My Doc relative and his family live in Carlsbad.

[EyeGuy]

“As a native son, I can truly attest to that. In the time that I was raised there, I don’t think there was a better place on earth to be a kid.”

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My favorite video to demonstrate what we have lost in California AND as a nation. Call me soft, but this one always gives me a lump in my throat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QCZ_bv9aLc