Posted on 11/05/2010 12:57:00 AM PDT by Scanian
I would like to feel elated about the elections last Tuesday, but alas, I live in California. As the rest of the nation lurches back toward common sense, California defiantly stands as a testament to the power of delusion. Over twenty billion dollars in debt, some of the highest unemployment in the nation, businesses fleeing the bloated bureaucracy's draconian regulations, water policies dooming the farming industry in the vital Central Valley, out-of-control taxation -- all of these crises are political in origin and speak to a legacy of ideological obtuseness combined with incompetence of astonishing magnitude.
I have been striving to understand how my beloved state could again give a chance to Jerry Brown, a career politician and former governor who is in many ways responsible for California's present disasters; allowed the reelection of Barbara Boxer, a corrupt, radical partisan whose intellectual vacuity is an embarrassment; voted down Proposition 23, which would have halted, at least temporarily, the "green" restrictions encumbering our faltering economy; voted in Proposition 25, which will make it easier for politicians to raise already astronomically high taxes; and turned over key posts, such as Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State, as well as a majority of the state assembly and Senate seats, to the party most responsible for California's ruination. I can't wrap my mind around this phenomenon without using metaphor.
A friend of mine has a daughter who, in high school, was beautiful, bright, and ambitious. However, she was quite pampered by her parents, and right out of high school, she began a series of disastrous relationships with men. A couple of these boyfriends were actually in residential drug rehabilitation at the time they were dating her.
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States whose debt liability per capita is worse than California’s: Rhode Island, Illinois, Washington, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii,Massachusetts, Connecticut (the last 4 states listed have more than 2X the per capita debt as CA)
States whose pension liability per capita is worse than California’s: Minnesota, Wyoming, New Mexico, Hawaii, Colorado, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, Alaska, Ohio, Rhode Island (the last 4 being 35%-55% greater than CA)
States whose Gross State Product ($Bil) per capita is less than California: All of them!
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/44/debt-10_Global-Debt-Crisis_Rank.html
Some good charts there might add to your glee. Sort the states by debt per capita or underfunded pensions.
BAM! BAM! You hit the nail on the head!
Stockholm syndrome?
Patty Hearst?
The solution favored by hundreds of thousands.
Relief for them but by leaving the problem of bailing out Cali will be left for the rest of us.
I’m convinced that a Cali bailout will be a priority item for Hussein this year or next.
If the roads get that bad, it’s already too late to leave. :P
So I have to harden my heart more than I originally thought!
Voting populace have to suffer consequence of voting without being informed, and not demanding quality candidates! It comes down to you get what you vote for.
Sure, I understand the problem of being in a boat with a bunch of idiots, but then you have to move to a better boat, or work at taking control of the boat. Their are no other options!
I am sure that their are many in Spain who regret they voted for the Commies after the train bombing, but votes have consequences!
“who will not campaign on social issues at all”
Well we in TX have a similar problem. So, we run socons who run as socons and destroyed the liberals this election.
I’m just saying that when ballot measures like rejecting gay marriage are far more acceptable than republican candidates, that your strategy is flawed.
People want conservativism.
It’s time to break up the state. The Conservative part of the state that is 50 miles away from the coast line should break away and let the coastal lefties thrive in their liberal utopia.
I’m sick of everybody saying how liberal the state is when three cities control the fates of millions.
I have moved from Cali, BTW, but I am still stuck with an underwater mortgage there.
BTW: Did Starr Parker win?
Good read.
As I stated somewhere else here regarding Massachusetts voters, The corruption at the polls does not equal the corruption within the souls.
A evil debased reprobate population, like all things, need a place in the world.
Good read.
As I stated somewhere else here regarding Massachusetts voters, The corruption at the polls does not equal the corruption within the souls.
A evil debased reprobate population, like all things, need a place in the world.
Internal secession is indeed a solution.
Blue California has nothing but serial butthurt in its future, but Red California could thrive.
Texas still had enough takers to re-elect the likes of Shella Jackson-Lee, Lloyd Dogget and Al Green. There are bastions of useful idiots everywhere, but none as obvious as CA.
Oh, so it’s OUR fault for leaving that train-wreck-in-progress?
I escaped Commiefornia in 2003.
There’s no hope for CA. Thinking you can fix it is delusional.
The battered wife syndrome analogy is most applicable to CA conservatives.
The problem with California lunacy is that the lunatics flee the horror of California and take the disease with them to contaminate other places like Colorado, Montana and New Mexico.
It’s possible and even likely that one or all three will lose their districts in the redistricting next year. Texas Dems took a battering in the state House.
So’s the addiction analogy. California is going to have to hit bottom, HARD, before it’s going to even think about improving.
Dude, please. The electorate, far from being idealistic hippies enthralled with liberal fantasies, is acting in a completely rationale & pragmatic fashion. It's just that our esteemed author either fails to realize or refuses to state the obvious.
Pragmatism as exercised by illegals & their anchors (who now comprise greater than 50% of the state's population) is logically directed towards maximizing whatever remaining wealth they can siphon off before the whole mother comes down.
I mean, really, it doesn't take some pseudo-analysis to think this through. People attracted to & raised on the mechanics of welfare fraud are going to continue to vote in favor of those programs until they simply don't exist any longer. QED
California
Colorado
Connecticut
All lurched left while the rest of us moved right. May they NOT find sympathy in the new House.
California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;
But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot
If you ain’t got the do re mi.
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