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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“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?
“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!
Remember 70’s California.
Jerry Brown was the laughingstock.
Governor Moonbeam
“Medfly Brown”
LOL
Good idea. Trump will make California pay for it.
“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
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.
“”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?
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.
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
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...
The only part he left out was the Obamacare Death Panels.
Cutting the life span is the other part of the financial equation.
Moonbeam sure liked Trump’s money, though.
Trump gave him tons over the years.
I think the rest of the country would heartily approve.
A wall around California sounds good to me. Maybe it would keep all of those California fruit and nut ideas on the west coast.
Maybe we could give Mexifornia back to Mexico, but only if Mexico agrees to take on its debt.
As a Coloradan I’m good with that, Jerry!
It sure sounds like he wants low-wage brown-skinned slaves
to prop up old rich white men doesn’t it?
Good comment. Is the wall to keep people in or keep people out?
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