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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MD thought taxing rain was a good idea now we have a great republican Governor.Liberals want it all and they want it now.be careful what you wish for.imagine California in 20 years.even the best case senario will be problematic.
It’s not just the state government pensions...It’s the local, city, county and state that are literally choking off the entire state. Then add in the mental cases that run the state, who think it’s reasonable to open the borders to endless millions of uneducated illegal poor folk who have zero respect for our borders, rules, laws etc.
It’s state suicide.
I for one seldom use the facilities at a gas station. And I do not live in San Francisco so any poop on the sidewalk is the canine variety.
Where do you think the people that flooded California in the post WWII era came from? The ones that drove up land prices and tax rates here. My next door neighbors growing up were from Arkansas. My mother babysat a kid who’s family moved from Texas. First time I ever heard the N word spoken in front of me. Our friends down the street were from Wisconsin. My best friend’s folks were from Illiniois. My junior high math teacher played football at Syracuse in New York.
Neither is splitting up the state into three parts.
“When will California reach the breaking point?”
When the gardeners take the pruning shears to the Limousine Liberals.
I know PDJT is campaigning for Cox in the fall. Sort of amazing he even made the ballot. May fantasy is Cox is elected, and even as a figurehead, can work with the majority constituency that elected him, and begin to sober up enough of the state to matter.
Well that has a way better chance of happening than pretending how life would be without SF and LA.
Purdy dayum close!!!!:^)
I grew up in California before illegal immigration destroyed it. The illegals coming from Mexico and Central America see America as their own nations with all the trimmings and goodies being provided. A lot of them have no desire to assimilate into American culture and the idiots in Suckremento are just fine with it especially if they vote D every election!
That could happen. Not likely, but it could. Even if did, it would still take many many years to get rid of the leftist who’ve take over state/local governments at every level.
Boy I tell you a persons gotta watch that interchange for Elko etc. I dang near missed it.
Got to go by the big Roman candle at Tonopah again though. Thats amazing.
“If you wished to know the truth, there are more people living in California with conservative attitudes than live in your state. Unfortunately there are even more liberals. Most who came here from other places. “
That IS the truth! And the matter of how Liberals from the Northeastern States, have been the source of California’s slide from First in the Nation by any measure 50 years ago, to where we are today. And I suppose, just as they came here when their New England nests were fouled, now they, or more likely their progeny, are “moving on” to find fresh places to $hit! So those who deride California here should realize that this is a nationwide problem. California ( and Oregon and Washington) were just very nice places to live, which brought the Liberal $hit here first. I like states like Texas, but they are living in denial if they can’t see that as California has become, so too will they follow. We need a collective solution. We need a SCOTUS to overturn one man one vote and restore some balance between our population centers and the rest of the country. $hit holes should not be able to affect the lifestyles of the decent people who live outside of them.
Isn’t there a new law restricting water usage per person per household? Was that fake news?
I’m not pretending anything. My post simply pointed out that the popular conception on this forum that everyone in this state is a radical leftist is simply not true.
Now, since the chances of both the creation of three states out of one and living without two of the four most populous cities in California are both zero, I’d say they are equally likely.
There were two laws passed concerning per capita water use that were directed at water districts. There are no restrictions on individual behavior in regards to water use. This has been twisted into a ban on showers and laundry on the same day and the fake news was picked up by numerous outlets.
“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.””
That’s surely true for Sunnyvale, which is in the heart of the Silicon Valley and woefully short of housing. But the people who sold that 848 sf home, if they lived in it for 20 years, probably paid less than $100,000 for it and were paying $100 a month in taxes thanks to Prop 13. If the RATs are ever successful in somehow overturning Prop 13, the CA real estate market will implode.
You’re a voice of reason not crying in the wilderness, but shouting to be heard over the roar of the crowd. No one ever won a war by constantly ceding territory. Yet if most hete had their way California would revert to Mexico. Then Arizona and Nevada would be the front lines, rolling eastward until there was nothing left.
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