Because California is so large, with such a huge economy and so many people, the state's dominance generally steers industry and other governments in the direction it wants. No company that does business with state governments can afford to ignore what California is doing.
If California doesn't think that Washington should be setting national policy, why be a member of the union of states in the first place? Its $3 trillion economy would be ranked 5th in the world if the Golden State was a sovereign nation. Maybe it's time that California thought about being a separate country.
They act like it anyway.
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Its $3 trillion economy would be ranked 5th in the world if the Golden State was a sovereign nation.
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What do you think that $3 trillion economy would be worth if dysfunctional California were to become a separate country?
2 posted on
01/10/2020 7:33:00 AM PST by
Starboard
To: SeekAndFind
Please do. Is there anything I can do to help #CALEXIT?
3 posted on
01/10/2020 7:34:59 AM PST by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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5 posted on
01/10/2020 7:35:49 AM PST by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Naah, don’t let them secede. We should occupy them as they are a hostile and lawless entity.
7 posted on
01/10/2020 7:40:03 AM PST by
fieldmarshaldj
(Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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Why does the image of cal dmv come to mind?
8 posted on
01/10/2020 7:40:34 AM PST by
Godzilla
( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . .)
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Nope....they want to control the entire world.
Until Trump started pushing back, they were on the way to writing all future laws and have them administered by the UN.
All of the power, none of the responsibility.
9 posted on
01/10/2020 7:41:22 AM PST by
Zathras
To: SeekAndFind
What a lovely thought. Imagine the conniption fit the Democrats would have if CA seriously contemplated it - they’d never win another presidential vote without California.
10 posted on
01/10/2020 7:41:59 AM PST by
libertylover
(Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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Let's prompt Kali to secede, and then invade. I'm sure that $3 trillion economy can support the Kali NG against the 1st Marine Division.
Two days, maybe three.. Then, round up and shoot all the traitors. We tried being nice, the last time, and the Democrats didn't learn.
11 posted on
01/10/2020 7:42:16 AM PST by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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The navy needs San Diego and SF bay.
12 posted on
01/10/2020 7:44:04 AM PST by
Jim Noble
(There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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.......
...Californians just spent and lost billions on a train that will never happen! Now, they can look forward to their State Government producing and selling them their life sustain prescription drugs!?
Time to Leave.
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Prefer to see Northern California splitting off and becoming the state of Jefferson. Doesn’t matter then if South California stays or goes, they lose political power.
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They definitely don’t want to succeed!
21 posted on
01/10/2020 8:00:47 AM PST by
Cowboy Bob
("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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Depart from us, oaves!
Just leave the beaches and vineyards.
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Only the north and south ends of it.
Flyover places like Fresno (home of FreeReplic) do not.
23 posted on
01/10/2020 8:14:54 AM PST by
polymuser
(It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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Bye-bye!
Continue the WALL with a northward turn at the Cali border.
24 posted on
01/10/2020 8:18:18 AM PST by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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The Free States Of America Are surrounded!
Mehico invaders to the south! Islamo-Europe terrorists to the east!
Russian belligerents to the north, just over the north pole!
Commieforia dangerous Idiocracy to the west!
25 posted on
01/10/2020 8:20:54 AM PST by
Vlad The Inhaler
(I love Mankind - It's Just Most Of The People That I Can't Stand)
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I want to secede from California.
26 posted on
01/10/2020 8:22:03 AM PST by
GSWarrior
(Harvey Weinstein did not kill himself.)
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Didn’t the US fight a war with and pay money to Mexico to get that land? It’s ours.
How about we rescind the Enabling Act that made California a State, and make it a Territory?
27 posted on
01/10/2020 8:22:56 AM PST by
KrisKrinkle
(Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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CA is connected to the other states in a huge way. They get megatons of water and electricity from other states, and the Federal govt has military installations all over the place.
34 posted on
01/10/2020 8:31:51 AM PST by
lurk
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For sure-THEN they can get ‘foreign aid’ when the big one hist
35 posted on
01/10/2020 8:41:37 AM PST by
SMARTY
("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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