Posted on 02/22/2014 1:32:05 AM PST by kingattax
California has reached the breaking point, says Tim Draper. The Silicon Valley venture capitalist is pushing a proposal to crack the nation's most populous state into smaller pieces — six of them.
California has grown so big, so inefficient, it's essentially ungovernable, according to a ballot initiative that could reach voters as early as November.
It has to go, he says.
"Vast parts of our state are poorly served by a representative government," according to Draper's plan, which cleared a key government hurdle this week, part of the process to qualify for the ballot. California residents "would be better served by six smaller state governments."
In an interview Thursday, Draper said he has seen a state once regarded as a model slide into decline — many public schools are troubled, transportation, water and other infrastructure systems are overmatched and outdated, spending on prisons has soared.
A group of states could change that, he said, competing and cooperating with each other.
Without change "it will get worse," he warned. "California is not working."
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Never happen.
Congress will not approve it.
Going from 2 Senators to 12?
I don’t think so, Tim.
“Vast parts of our state are poorly served by a representative government,”
Any gov of leftists will be a disaster, regardless of how large an area or how many people live in that area.
12 more democrat senators. NO THANKS.
How about push for conservative candidates instead? Throw all your money behind that. Then you will see real change.
Not out of Draper. He put his money behind Obama in 2008 and never looked back. And that was after his association with Dubya too.
Actually no. It wouldn’t, except for very short term.
The media, the education system, and all that is so horribly compromised that the state would revert back to leftist norm within one election cycle, at the very least.
This might get me in trouble, but heck, gonna say it anyway.
There is no peaceful solution anymore. The destructionists have been given too much for too long and there’s no taking it back by reasonable means.
I would say this. If they could get enough votes from the whole state and get this passed....then it would create a tide of interest in twenty other states (New York state already talks of interest, as does Colorado, Maryland, plus Florida and Arizona both could generate enough interest to split into two states each).
The point is...several states are bundled up now for failure of a massive type. Because of the political divisions now....lack of general agreement...and state lobbyists...division is the only practical answer left.
My suggestion would be...allow the six states of California to go forward (if they vote for such), with a five-year implementation period, and allow other states to meet the same five-year window period.
We could be talking of eleven states arriving, with twenty-two new Senators. If you think the Senate is a failure today with one-hundred senators.....just toss another twenty-two on top of that.
I will add this...if there ever was an opportunity for a third party...it’d be with three or four new states appearing with Tea Party or Independent Senators.
This would also have an effect on the Electoral College....making California more questionable. At least half of the new California states would be Republican-leaning (my belief).
Nope, this will never happen. Not with the current rules. Too bad the Founders didn’t make it easier.
So instead of f***ing up one big state, the same people will f*** up six smalller states.
Great idea.
If southern Oregon and norther California could ever become Jefferson, I would move there. I love living in Oregon, but the libtards run everything.
OH MY GOD!!! THEY’RE MULTIPLYING!!!
Uh, so-called conservatives hold a majority in the House. What have they been waiting for?
Here’s an easier reset. Socialist legislators could sign a Declaration of Dependence with their socialist, low-information and FSA voters, deceased voters and fascist/corrupt businessmen. Then they could tax and harass each other into prosperity. The rest of the citizens could have most of their taxes eliminated and they would be left to enjoy their productive lives. (maybe that would require some physical separation)
The best thing that could happen is the country divided into 100 to 200 states, and having States Rights... taking power away from our Central Government.
Won’t happen, but that would be the best solution... we’d have massive competition, cross border tax advantages would grow like crazy, and it would be interesting to see what corrections could be made to deal with the out of control abuse of the 10th amendment.
Part of a plan to retroactively make Obunga correct regarding 57 States. Which includes splitting NY into 3, Texas into 4, merging RI and CT and also DE with MD.....I’m getting confused as to what else....
I might consider it, if the seventeenth amendment was nullified. It is unconstitutional in my mind to on the one hand change from state legislature elected Senators, with a directed six year term, to direct elected representatives, and not change the term of office to reflect what the Constitution directs for representatives. That would be two years.
Nullifying the amendment would then place recall of Senators back on the table as well as turn their primary interest from representing, to guarding the interest of the sovereign state from which they are sent, and if they refuse to do so they are able to be immediately recalled. The issue would be what states would go along with nullification. Perhaps only red and only a portion of those.
Give West Camden (formerly known as Philthadelphia) to the People’s Republic of New Jersey.
Both states will be improved.
What will remain is the same the most prosperous of them will still be paying for the entitled
They should not carve California into 6 different states.
They should carve it off of the United States.....PERIOD!
It sounds to me like they’re trying to Balkanize California: put the white moonbats in one section, put the Hispanics in one section, put the blacks in one section, and put the Asians in one section. But that doesn’t work in America, because we’re all so totally assimilated. We all interact with each other, and we all like each other. And we all have the opportunity for upward mobility. One of my friends at school once told me that his great-grandfather helped to build the Golden Gate Bridge, way back in the bad old days when they were importing cheap slave labor from China. Now his family owns a popular oriental restaurant in central Florida, and he is the second generation of his family to go to college. I can relate in a way. I am black, and the Civil Rights era of the 1960’s was brutal for my grandparents. But it was an unstoppable juggernaut that no evil racists politician could stand in the way of. Did you know that there was once a “law of the land” that made it illegal to teach black people how to read? Even back then they knew that knowledge is power.
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