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Jerry Brown: If Trump wins, California might need a wall of its own (Moonbean to the rescue)
sacramento bee ^ | 3/14/16 | d siders

Posted on 03/15/2016 1:49:28 PM PDT by doldrumsforgop

Gov. Jerry Brown, mocking Donald Trump for his plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, suggested Monday that if the Republican frontrunner wins the election, California might have to take protective measures of its own.

“If Trump were ever elected, we’d have to build a wall around California to defend ourselves from the rest of this country,” Brown told labor organizers at a dinner in Sacramento. “By the way that is a joke. We don’t like walls, we like bridges.”

Brown, the Democratic governor of a liberal border state, has signed legislation granting driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants and allowing undocumented immigrant college students to receive public financial aid. Like many Democrats, he has pushed Washington unsuccessfully for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system.

Addressing members of the California Labor Federation and State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, Brown said California has benefited from immigration to the state, arguing that young workers are an economic boon.

“Some of these old white guys ought to recognize that the whole pension system would collapse if we didn’t have a bunch of young people coming into this country and into this state,” the 77-year-old governor said. “They’re not all coming from here. They’re coming from other places.”

Brown also re-opened a years-old feud with former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who withdrew from the presidential race last year. Before leaving office, Perry, a self-proclaimed hunter of jobs, ran radio ads in California luring companies to move to his state.

“If I asked you who was that governor, there aren’t 50 people in this room that could even tell me his damn name,” Brown said. “And people who attack California, they do become anonymous and forgotten. Rightfully so.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; brown; california; election2016; governormoonbeam; jerrybrown; moonbeam; newyork; trump
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To: blueplum

“And then life will be good again in the Golden State”

That might stop the hemorrhaging, but someone must still perform the operation.

There is tons of public debt in CA and someone will need to be willing to pay it off.

Will you be a taker?


21 posted on 03/15/2016 2:08:31 PM PDT by doldrumsforgop
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To: moonbeam

“If Trump were ever elected, we’d have to build a wall around California to defend ourselves from the rest of this country,” Gov. Jerry Brown
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Hey Moonbeam, don’t be surprised to find our locks on our side of your gates too!


22 posted on 03/15/2016 2:10:42 PM PDT by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: DoughtyOne

Remember 70’s California.

Jerry Brown was the laughingstock.

Governor Moonbeam

“Medfly Brown”

LOL


23 posted on 03/15/2016 2:11:53 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: doldrumsforgop

Good idea. Trump will make California pay for it.


24 posted on 03/15/2016 2:12:44 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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“the whole pension system would collapse if we didn’t have a bunch of young people coming into this country”

So, lets just fill the state with uneducated, unskilled minimum wage workers and welfare queens, that will fix the pension system


25 posted on 03/15/2016 2:14:17 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: doldrumsforgop

Brown’s success has been his ability to hype up resentment against straw men. He creates monsters, slays them, and the rest of his existence has always been preventing the monsters from coming back to harm us peons. Hooray for Jerry Moonbeam Brown the slayer of fictitious monsters.

Unfortunately his fictitious monster schtick has worked well for him. People like the fairies in fairytales.


26 posted on 03/15/2016 2:14:24 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: posterchild

“”Some of these old white guys ought to recognize that the whole pension system would collapse if we didn’t have a bunch of young people coming into this country and into this state,””

Did he really mean to be so honest about the motive??????? Or was it a slip?


27 posted on 03/15/2016 2:14:44 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: posterchild
If your pension system requires an influx of new people then there is something structurally wrong with your pension system.

The major thing wrong is that California has taxed the high-paying jobs out of California. So, now there are just a lot of minimum wage earners paying taxes to support the higher paid govt. workers.

28 posted on 03/15/2016 2:15:08 PM PDT by Parmy (I)
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To: doldrumsforgop

ha! I’ve been paying California’s public debt for 40 years. Property taxes, gasoline taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, animal taxes, code enforcement taxes, they get us every which way


29 posted on 03/15/2016 2:15:36 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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To: doldrumsforgop

I hope he does build a wall-we have enough Kali liberals in our big cities-especially Austin-one reason I live in redneck country where they won’t live-I hope Moonbeam lures them all home with freebies when he builds that wall, and never lets them leave...


30 posted on 03/15/2016 2:16:37 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Thank You Rush

The only part he left out was the Obamacare Death Panels.
Cutting the life span is the other part of the financial equation.


31 posted on 03/15/2016 2:17:17 PM PDT by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
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To: doldrumsforgop

Moonbeam sure liked Trump’s money, though.

Trump gave him tons over the years.


32 posted on 03/15/2016 2:20:37 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Trump, and Rubio are sure losers. No more!)
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33 posted on 03/15/2016 2:24:42 PM PDT by onyx (You're here posting, so sign-up to DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: DoughtyOne

I think the rest of the country would heartily approve.


34 posted on 03/15/2016 2:28:32 PM PDT by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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To: doldrumsforgop

A wall around California sounds good to me. Maybe it would keep all of those California fruit and nut ideas on the west coast.


35 posted on 03/15/2016 2:31:51 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: doldrumsforgop

Maybe we could give Mexifornia back to Mexico, but only if Mexico agrees to take on its debt.


36 posted on 03/15/2016 2:33:26 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: doldrumsforgop
There maybe another wall built first.


37 posted on 03/15/2016 2:33:32 PM PDT by McGruff (Just another "Low Information Voter" for Trump)
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To: doldrumsforgop

As a Coloradan I’m good with that, Jerry!


38 posted on 03/15/2016 2:48:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Thank You Rush

It sure sounds like he wants low-wage brown-skinned slaves
to prop up old rich white men doesn’t it?


39 posted on 03/15/2016 2:59:18 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: doldrumsforgop

Good comment. Is the wall to keep people in or keep people out?


40 posted on 03/15/2016 3:12:35 PM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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