Posted on 10/20/2017 4:15:14 PM PDT by Twotone
It’s not easy watching California self-destruct. After all, my four sons are 6th generation Californians. One relative of ours journeyed here prior to the Gold Rush when the state population was just a handful of people. Family lore has it he was a gunslinger who, victorious in a gun duel, headed to California to avoid the law. He ended up ranching on what is now known as Mammoth Mountain. Other family members took part in the gold rush and one ended up discovering gold in 1895 in the Mojave Desert. My grandparents arrived in Kern County in the 1930s and worked as teachers educating the children of oil workers shortly after the discovery of oil in that region.
Proud of my heritage, I had this urge to run for the state legislature, so I did and I won. I was hoping I could do something in Sacramento to slow the decline of the Golden State. But it was not to be. I quickly discovered that the legislature was so dominated by far left ideologues, there was nothing that could be done to reverse course. My Democrat colleagues were not concerned one bit about how their policies were destroying the economic golden goose that made California so famous worldwide. Indeed, they actually believe their big government and nanny state policies have made California the model of how progressives can succeed in governing. Seriously.
I’ve always wondered how he managed to come out normal as opposed to his siblings.
A: How do we know they have ever "won" any of them?
With any luck will slid into Pacific during next earthquake
and be rid of them......
Bkmk.
With any luck will slid into Pacific during next earthquake
and be rid of them......
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Yes, because conservatives living in California are worthless and deserving of cataclysmic death, just as you were worthless and deserving of death while Obama was in office. What part of “those in office don’t represent me or my values” didn’t you learn through the 8 hellish years of Obama?
It's only a matter of time before they "demand" a bailout.
One suspects that you are quite possibly correct to be suspicious, my FRiend.
California has been 90 percent ruined in just one or two generations. It’s mostly a horrible miserable and yes extremely expensive hell hole now. A terrible tragedy. Mostly destroyed by communistic political dictatorship as the article describes. Those that knew the state 50 years ago can only cry
Making me omelettes etc.
We moved to Wyoming in 2010 and at the time I was like the proverbial frog in the boiling water who didn’t realize how bad it was until I got to see what ‘better’ looked like.
California is a beautiful state, no doubt.
But it’s populated by some of the world’s sickest, most depraved, and most evil people...and they’re just the ones you see in traffic every day.
It’s a sin-sick state and it’s going to get far worse before it can start to heal.
The absolute worst part about ca is that many former californians moved to other states to spread their progressive infection.
I’m butting heads with these loons on a regular basis.
They are a disease to the weak-minded.
Too bad the leftist destroyed the crown jewel of America. They took the best and literally subverted it, looted and trashed it.
Don’t worry, CA won’t crash, it will just devolve into 3rd world status.
Yes, but I prefer the rhyming version, "makers and takers".
But we better be planning on building a ton of green houses because you would be astounded how much of the Nation’s food comes from California.
It won’t experience its natural death unless and until it breaks with the rest of the USA. I know sensible Californians (noncoastal types) don’t want to hear that, but it’s obviously true. And unless and until California goes, this country is going to be pulled deeper into the sewer with it.
Very sad what they did to my state. I’ll never forget the main players who are responsible. And if the opportunity ever arises to actually hold them responsible, I will be there to support that effort.
CA produces 11% of the nations agricultural products by $ receipts.
CA has 12% of the population
I left the state in ‘94 and only after many years went back last year after the passing of my father. I can’t believe what an overpriced and overtaxed place it is. And just the cost of housing alone should scare people away.
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