Posted on 12/03/2018 6:13:04 AM PST by artichokegrower
Sounds like the marijuana initiative is having its effect.
Not.A.Good.Idea.
How stupid do you have to be to qualify as a California liberal?
Sometimes one’s highest and best use is to serve as a warning to others.
They forget that Alaska’s ‘permanent fund’ was set up by Sarah Palin to pay residents a reasonable share of profits from the extraction of oil and other natural resources that their state has.
Rather then let massive profits get taxed into the goobermints pockets to spend on idiocy to buy more votes.
The move to 100% renewable energy is a liberal pipe dream and would raise energy prices to ridiculous levels and assure periodic blackouts. How about cutting taxes and reducing government regulation.
They forgot to list: Grow more money trees.
It’s all the usual blather.
One of my favorite recent quotes is, “The modern equivalent of ‘let them eat cake’ is ‘let them write code’”.
That is true only in the category called Supplimental Poverty Measure. That includes cost-of-living including taxes, housing and medical costs. For a two-adult, two-child family in California, the poverty threshold was an average of $30,000, depending on the region in the state, In absolute terms Mississippi does indeed have the highest poverty rate, according to the Census Bureau.
And it’s LUCKY to have three (3).
Without them, the State of CA is ALREADY Venezuela! (...Maybe Greece or Spain?) BANKRUPT!
As in Alaska resident I think I can comment on this, the Alaska permanent fund was not set up by Sarah Palin. It was set up in 1976 well before her time. Of course, we elected a democrat governor and for the last few years he has stolen half the fund from the residents and put it in the government coffers. That way they can be pissed away with every other government program that they have implemented here. Since 2006 we have double the size of our government here yet we have not doubled our population. This place is becoming California…
In college I was assigned to read the best-selling book Megatrends. The most chilling thing I took away from it was that California is a bellwether state, and whatever stupidity gets a toehold there spreads to the other 49 eventually.
There’s not a damned thing produced in CA that couldn’t be adequately produced elsewhere.
“It’s #1 in poverty rate”
AND the number of welfare recipients. Fully 1/3 of all welfare recipients in the nation reside here.
And second only to CT in per capita income.
Texas has a rainy day fund of $10,000,000,000 and it’s legislature also only meets every two years
Not for long the way it’s headed.
More fires, more illegal parasites, and more taxation and dumb regs coming out of the uniparty government in Sacramento and they’ll kill the Golden goose for good.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The lawless California government has never been the main problem with renegade California imo.
All roads of corrupt in federal and state governments lead to likewise lawless, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress imo.
More specifically, for the longest time, proud, but low-information US citizens, have failed to elect a patriot Congress that is willing to do its constitutionally enumerated duties to insure each state a republican form of government and strengthen constitutionally enumerated rights. 2020?
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
In fact, as long as a Republican federal government federal government faithfully does its duty to protect constitutionally enumerated rights from activist state actors, one way to get the country back on its constitutional foundations is the following imo.
The federal government needs to be run by true conservatives, and the states to be run by Democrats; the Founding States had never intended for the constitutionally limited power federal government to be run by Democratic social engineering lawmakers.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Parents would also need to make sure that their children, especially immigrant children, are taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Also, consider Dan Borgino’s excellent 37 min video (associated book) which helps to flesh out the alleged Mueller conspiracy against Pres. Trump.
Step one - Figure out ways to steal elections for DemocRats.
As far as Statist are concerned, it all belongs to them, anyway.
It isn’t that hard to go to 100% renewable energy if you are willing to build fast breeder reactors.
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