Posted on 02/18/2011 7:10:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
"...your government is run by a brothel of environmentalists, lawyers, public sector unions, and legislative bums...When you inevitably crash and burn, don't count on us to bail you out."
"California faces its most serious budget crisis since the Great Depression. Newly inaugurated Gov. Jerry Brown is inheriting a deficit that is expected to be at least $28 billion over the next 18 months. Nonpartisan legislative analysts project a long-term structural gap of some $20 billion per year between revenues and expenditures in the state's general fund, on an annual budget that is now $93 billion."
"[I see] former small farms - the vineyards overgrown with weeds, or torn out with the ground lying fallow. ... I don't think I can remember another time when so many acres in the eastern part of the valley have gone out of production, even though farm prices have recently rebounded. Apparently it is simply not worth the gamble of investing $7,000 to $10,000 an acre in a new orchard or vineyard.
On the western side of the Central Valley, the effects of arbitrary cutoffs in federal irrigation water have idled tens of thousands of acres of prime agricultural land, leaving thousands unemployed. ... California coastal elites may worry about the oxygen content of water available to a three-inch smelt in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, but they seem to have no interest in the epidemic dumping of trash, furniture, and often toxic substances throughout California's rural hinterland."
"-since the chance of political change is becoming less likely by the year: The recent election demonstrates that the voters simply refuse to face up to the task of throwing out the politicians who are directly responsible for the state's problems. Hells bells, back in the 1970s, Jerry Brown was the governor who let state employees organize in unions, and set the state retirement system on the road to its present actuarial disaster. Incredibly, he just got elected governor again, along with a complete slate of candidates who have spent their political careers furthering the policies which got California into the social, economic, fiscal and regulatory mess it's in right now."
This says it all about Schwarzenegger's energy policies: completely beholden to environmental fantasy. ... one of Schwarzenegger's self-identified "legacies" was his signing of AB 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. AB 32 will soon lead to further increases in California's already nation-leading electricity and transportation fuel costs. The George C. Marshall Institute estimates that AB 32's low-carbon fuel standard and cap-and-trade scheme will hit California families for an additional $570 to $6,500 per year in higher transportation costs."
RE: Were outta here.
Where are you headed and why did you choose that destination?
Very well said.
Probably, with the parade of Loons they continually elect as Governor. They haven't had a real one since Reagan.
We will actually be retiring and our first choice at this time is Medford, Ore.
We picked it because we have relatives there, OK weather, OK realestate prices, good hospitals and an international airport. Plus we like the feeling of community there.
We still have some work to finish here in Calif and will not be able to leave right away but the plan is in motion.
Thoughts?
The next earthquake will put them over the edge.
Thread #10,752
RE: California is doomed....
Thread #10,752
Can someone find for me, thread #1 or #2 of California-is- on-the-right-track?
We did that. .. sold the ranch, hauled the business and 8 horses to southern Colorado. .. and the nightmares began. I could write book. ... but there comes a time in your life when you realize where “home” is.. and if you’re willing to fight for it.
Long story short, it took us 5 years to come “home” to the Sierra foothills. We’ll stay and fight for it.
That’s exactly why I would draw the line, or border if you wish, on the north side of San Francisco. In other words, put San Francisco in Southern California. That leaves Sacramento in Northern California and puts a better balance to the votes.
You should have all the answers...
:o
No Cal is where the loonies started it all. Its like the mother planet for earthfirsters.
Thanks for the thoughts.
After 58 years in Calif, who knows we might be back too.
I’m glad your willing to continue the fight. For now, my fight is all gone.
I can no longer stomach paying $60K every year in Calif. taxes to a system where I see no good come of it.
Since this is a public forum, I won't say where I would "put" San Francisco.
:^D
If I'm going to spend over 3 grand, I'll just BUY a trailer.
Nightmare scenario for a population of welfare dependents.
As a Californian working in Silicon Valley, I am looking forward to the state filing for Bankruptcy. The only way to turn around CA is to have it go bust and rebuild from the ashes. Bring it on!
I have a property in N Nevada for sale. 5.58 acres. Turn key set up for horses.
For whomever is ready to bolt from Calif- I will deal.
I will pay a finder’s fee to anyone who finds me a buyer, also.
The split needs to be ‘Coastal West California & the eastern 3/4. Most of the Liberal voters are along the coastline.
That would work. We gotta try something to get things moving again. That way, business could move inland instead of out of state.
Is that Northern California such as Frisco and the bay babes like Pelosi, Boxer and Feinstien and the new AG? And then there is Moonbeam and Gayvin Newsom, too.
Southern CA would be much better off without them by far.
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