Posted on 12/05/2010 11:19:04 PM PST by Nachum
Obviously I can understand why anyone in CA would want to deal with the smog that covers California’s beautiful palm trees. But the anti-smog advocates had to find something else to go after in order to stay in ‘business’ and that is why California has so many problems with enviro-fascists.
Been talking to old friends on Facebook and they long ago left this dying State. What a shame. It used to be the "promise" of America. It is now the "nightmare" of the future of America.
When I was growing up too, we all thought California was where it was happening. All the neat stuff seemed to start there, great weather, beaches, cute girls, attractions, water, mountains, desert.
Now look at it. Liberalism has killed what might have been the best place on Earth at one time.
Me, too. That’s why I moved here as soon as I got out of college. I’d had enough of the northeast and midwest and wanted to capture all it had to offer.
Now it is a complete disaster. I’m expecting huge tax hikes and my wife and I are discussing how much longer we have to stay here before we can get out. We are going to get really clobbered by the upcoming tax increases which are on top of the highest rates in the nation. Many professionals feel the same way and many have already left for greener pastures.
As a child, I remember, the smog-filled days where we were warned to stay inside due to burning trash in the back yard furnaces and old vehicle exhaust, but that was long ago remedied. It doesn't exist now.
Our problem is with the Environmental Nazis that believe they should control every aspect of our lives, and the State politicians that agree.
We normally have very clear air, but the California bureaucracies that were created to combat the original problem will never go away, like all bureaucracies.
Yeah, all the cute girls, mountains, deserts, the great year round weather, and beaches all went to.....uh....Kansas! Or was it Michigan?
:o
Charlie Manson, from Ohio, came out here for the same reason...Along with Boxer, Pelosi and millions of others...
Tell ya what, just get in your car, and head out first thing in the morning....You'll be just in time for the lovely winter back east!
See ya!
The unintended consequence of recalling Davis.
The girlyman was worse than anyone could have imagined.
Wow..Looks like Idahos *high* temperatures this winter will be colder than the inside of my refrigerator. Yikes!
I've had to return to San Diego to keep employed while my family is in Idaho
Even in a bad economy, CA is where the money is, not to mention where the best weather is.
Having year round near perfect weather, is worth a small fortune to us!
Cold just plain sucks!
not for long lefty. moonbeam ‘s staff has been rewriting the meaning of prop 13 for the last 6 weeks. congrats for all your hard work here.
you were trashing whitman and peddling brown for months.
remember this dnc troll posting here for a long time folks !
LMAO!!
I think that train left the station a month ago.
California could close its budget gap and more by simply rounding up and deporting its illegal population.
Going Green and Bankruptcy are two terms that seem to go together well.
The California should be split into two separate states.
The balance of representation is horribly skewed.
I’m holding in my hand, a flyer from Sacramento County Sanitation District in which it explains the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Board is seeking to impose “new, very restrictive conditions for the region’s wastewater discharge,” costing in the pricerange of approximately 2 billion smackers. According to the rate/fee charts published in this flyer, sewer connection fees would jump from $2,800 to a new fee of $13,000 for infill single-family dwellings and from $7,450 to a new fee of $35,000 each for “new” development areas. [Prices adjust upward based on occupancy above ‘single-family’.] Current customers monthly rates would triple, from approximately $20/mo to over $60/mo.
I’m not a contractor, but I’d imagine a 5x increase in sewer connection fees would put a real pinch in the project cost of new housing. This is just one current example of environmentalism gone wild in California.
The problem with displaced liberal Californians is that they relocate, in large numbers to the same place, and inflect their liberalism on the receiving state...thereby perpetuating the problem.
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