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When will California reach the breaking point?
wnd.com ^ | 7/7/2018 | Patrice Lewis

Posted on 07/08/2018 6:48:45 AM PDT by rktman

“It’s now illegal in California to shower and do laundry on the same day,” my husband read out loud to me a few weeks ago.

“How are they going to police that?” I wondered.

“It doesn’t matter,” he replied. “California is so out of touch with reality that it just doesn’t matter anymore.”

It saddens me to watch my former home state implode, but that’s precisely what is happening. California has been called the world’s largest insane asylum, and as headline piles upon headline illustrating the latest madness, the description seems apt.

It’s no wonder people are fleeing the Golden State in droves. What is the incentive to stay when taxes are sky-high, regulations are draconian and capricious, crime is rampant, infrastructure is crumbling, and politicians are so out of touch with reality they think they can make it illegal to shower and do laundry on the same day?

Housing prices, of course, are famously irrational. In Sunnyvale, a modest 848-square-foot home on a tiny lot gained national notoriety for its selling price. “After being listed in March for $1.45 million, it sold within 48 hours for $2 million, or $2,358 per square foot,” noted ZeroHedge. “With Sunnyvale’s 1.25 percent property tax, the new owners are paying $2,083 per month, or $250,000 every 10 years.”

It’s more than just the insane cost of living in the state. Many people are also fleeing the insane policies. Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel (a co-founder of PayPal and an early Facebook investor) says it’s one thing for a culture to be “quite liberal” and another for it to be “totalitarian.” Dissenting opinions are not permitted. If you don’t believe me, walk onto any California college campus with a MAGA hat and see how long you last.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; crazytown; peterthiel; sunnyvale; totalitarian
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To: rktman

>>“That’s not how we did it back in Cali...........”

The words that destroyed the western half of the US.

“That’s not how we did it back in NY (or NJ or MA)...........”

The words that destroyed the southeastern part of the US.


41 posted on 07/08/2018 7:33:55 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: Nea Wood

“...wherever I move, the weather will not be as good as here...”

Depends on what you consider “good weather”...


42 posted on 07/08/2018 7:35:30 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: rktman

I think one of the issues in a place like CA is that different factions move forward with THEIR favorite cause. This is not done in concert or even cooperation or awareness of what another faction is doing.

Therefore, you have conflicting outcomes—like saving water by not showering one day, or doing laundry the next. In the end you get insanity.


43 posted on 07/08/2018 7:35:38 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: rktman

I just paid 3.79 at Susanville last week. I topped off and headed for NV and stopped on Hway 50-cant remember the name of that town to save my sole..The intersection of 50 and 95. Anyway, I paid abt 3.18 there. I put just enough in at Susanville to make it to there.


44 posted on 07/08/2018 7:36:13 AM PDT by crz
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To: rktman

ans slides under the Pacific ?


45 posted on 07/08/2018 7:36:26 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Little Ray

Given that California doesn’t have enough water, It actually makes sense to ration it.
Of course, they could concentrate on solving the water source issue, for instance by building desalinization plant


Or they could just reinstall the dams and other water conservation measures that the Gov. Jerry Brown liberals destroyed to “protect the environment” and critters. - CA has plenty of H2o, its just they do not collect it and let most of it run into the ocean for the ‘fish”, while destroying the most productive farms in the nation ... its for the children and the environment you know ...


46 posted on 07/08/2018 7:37:51 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Bryanw92

We in East Tennessee just tell ‘em that’s the way we do it here...If y’all don’t like it, go back and do whatever you want...


47 posted on 07/08/2018 7:38:34 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Nea Wood

I’ve often said that the good people of CA - a ONCE great state - have given up SO much to leftists and illegals.

Hardly any other state offers such wonderful climate and so many God given natural beauty and resources. All of this has been completely overshadowed and made unenjoyable, due to the choices of the leftists.

How did this happen? How did the GOOD folks of CA allow this to happen? Look at SanFranFreako and LA and the lawlessness that caters to used needle and poop-filled homeless camps, over the rights and lives of decent, hard working folks who live throughout the state.


48 posted on 07/08/2018 7:38:38 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

I heard the other day that conservatives in CA just don’t vote any more. Kinda “what’s the use?” attitude.


49 posted on 07/08/2018 7:39:18 AM PDT by Karoo
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To: rktman

Is CA going to crash?
Or will it just continue to devolve?


50 posted on 07/08/2018 7:40:03 AM PDT by umgud
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To: CaptainAmiigaf
People who are able flee, bringing their foolishness with them to infect their new refuge.

That makes no sense. If they love their leftist utopia, why would they flee?

51 posted on 07/08/2018 7:43:43 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rktman

If they did not have such unrealistic price controls on water there might be an incentive to build more desalinization plants.


52 posted on 07/08/2018 7:44:35 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: onedoug
If you took out the cities of Los Angeles and San Fransisco the state would vote majority republican. There are a large number of native born Californians such as myself who vote that way. The huge influx of people from Asia and Latin America, plus younger people indoctrinated by a thoroughly leftist education system account for the change.

Many leading politicians are from somewhere else. Nancy Pelosi was born into a powerful democratic family in Maryland. Barbara Boxer was born in Brooklyn. Willie Brown came from Texas. The parents of Diane Feinstein immigrated from Poland. The parents of Kamala Harris both came from foreign countries. They feed off racial grievance in a state with a shrinking white population.

53 posted on 07/08/2018 7:45:14 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Jane Long

California.


54 posted on 07/08/2018 7:45:29 AM PDT by sheana
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To: MichaelCorleone

Yup. Just for the heck of it, I checked the politics for Bridgeport/Mono county Ca before our gig and their local stuff looks to be “Republican” and their congressional district the same. But, it’s like Las Vegas (and sadly Reno/Truckee Meadows these days) and then there’s the rest of Nevada. LA, San Fran and surrounding area screw the rest of the state.


55 posted on 07/08/2018 7:45:46 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

But did you manage to do your business in the inside toilet rather than on the sidewalk?

Gas here is $2.65.

So many CA transplants have shot home prices and taxes through the roof here. Bought our small older house on a narrow lot in ‘94 for $60k. Today, it’s $250k and is literally falling down around us because there’s nothing left after property taxes to keep up with repairs. Taxes were 2 weeks of income. Today, they’re pushing 4 months. CA transplants come here on the pretense of getting out of wacky CA but set about immediately changing everything to what they left. They never met a tax they didn’t love.


56 posted on 07/08/2018 7:46:42 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: umgud

The huge pensions of the many California state government retirees requires a boatload of tax revenue to sustain. Same with Illinois the California of the Midwest less the nice weather.


57 posted on 07/08/2018 7:47:24 AM PDT by tflabo (Varmints)
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To: SoCal Pubbie
If you took out the cities of Los Angeles and San Fransisco the state would vote majority republican.

Well that's not going to happen. Next.

58 posted on 07/08/2018 7:48:55 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Hodar
......while paying outrageous gas prices, Californian elect officials that would open more borders, give aid and
comfort to illegals that bring in drugs, suck-off taxpayers, break laws, and steal what little property they have left.......

All of that is inconsequential .... all that matters is that liberals "feel good" about themselves.

59 posted on 07/08/2018 7:49:21 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: crz

It’s about .20 to .30 cents cheaper in Carson City than here in Reno. Ridiculous.


60 posted on 07/08/2018 7:51:57 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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