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."
California should have been split into at least two states years ago.
Brown is allowing the UNION cancer to fester, so we are pretty much doomed.
I'm going to say...Yes.
All of this is a good reason to split the state in half. Let Southern California deal with their own problems and allow Northern California to prosper. Companies can move to Northern California without the dictates of Southern California.
While I oppose yet another June vote to again stop any increases, if we did it would tell Brown to stop spending.
The problem is, the state stops what we are paying for to fund the unions pensions so the tax will not be reduced and we will be paying for nothing except union benefits.
RE: California should have been split into at least two states years ago.
How do you propose to partition it?
Northern California and Southern California for instance? Or Eastern California and Western California ? Where’s the demarcation line going to be ?
Actually, the better proposal I’ve seen is to split off the East/Central (including Fresno and the ag. belt), far North and South (San Diego, Orange, Riverside and San Bernadino) counties which are conservative and leave the West coast from LA to SFO as a separate state that can do all the kooky left-wing things they want to.
You’re kidding...right? Northern California is dominated by ultra LIB leaning San Francisco. Visited there lately? It’s a wonderful place to visit...providing you don’t trip over the homeless sleeping on the sidewalk or taking a dump at the entrance to a retail shop.
Orange County is about the last bastion of conservatism left in the golden state.
You can have Norcal to yourself.
RE: Companies can move to Northern California without the dictates of Southern California.
I don’t think the relatively conservative people in San Diego will like what they read above ....
I doubt you would want that -- we'd then have TWO blue states instead of one, and FOUR leftwing crazed socialist U. S. senators instead of two.
The North is DOMINATED by Bay Area liberalism in the voting booth and the South by L.A. County liberalism in the voting booth.
It's a mess everywhere except inland, but far fewer people live there, and their voices are overpowered by the noise coming from both the north coast and south coast.
I'm glad I left many years ago.
Yes Henry California is beyond repair. It is a state where the many live off the few, the ignorance of altruism governs politics and the american culture is fast disappearing.
Rest in pieces California you once represented the dreams of American now you represent the fate.
Someone also needs to pull the cork on all the unions and the great society programs should only be for a few months unless they are severely disabled.
California is beyond repair as long as progressive democrats rule it,they caused the mess the states is in.
San Francisco is not a representation of Northern California. Most of NorCal is conservative. Where we live, it is just about totally conservative.
Divide up California between Arizona and Nevada, nothing for Oregon since they’ve been infected by California types already.
Exactly what I was thinking. Carve it up into three states... after it goes belly up.
This is historic, watching a State turn into a Lawless Mexican territory. It will explode when the welfare dries up.
At the end of five years, see who does best and give all three to them.
Only in the same way that most of Illinois is conservative. Check out that state. Practically every county in Illinois is red -- EXCEPT the HUGE population center of Chicago and its near environs. They dominate the polling booths and make Illinois a very LIBERAL state.
Now in northern California, you may live in a conservative, rural county, but the voters in EVERY county in the Bay Area, and Sacramento County, vastly outnumber you. So where it counts - at the voting booth - northern California is a liberal bastion.
Sorry.
Our house goes on the market Mar. 5.
We’re outta here.
Lived in California for 58 years. Nothing left to fight for.
Nice weather is not a lifestyle.
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