California exodus turns to stampede

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | February 20, 2008

[CORedneck]

Case in point is the law passed several years ago banning radar/laser jammers, last year implementing a helmet law for underage riders as a start. Some legislators like Merrifield want a full helmet law just like California for motorcyclist.

Talking about the liberal tendency of regulating, the company I worked for (laid off from), the manager I worked for (until 2005) is a liberal democrat. You couldn't do anything without having to ask his permission. The last several months working for him got so bad that I had to stay "glued" to my desk. I step away to go to the bathroom (library option) and I come back to my desk and I get my butt chewed and I was basically told that if I stepped away for more than 2 minutes, I had to notify him where I am going to and what I am doing and get his approval.

>Living in Colorado, our legislature went from being conservative to being liberal.

Yes, and taxes and regulation are going up now. I could just spit. But the Republican party here is a clown show.

[norton]

"Or, TX and FL don't have income taxes but they have other taxes in lieu of income taxes. "

I've never heard anyone say that it is too expensive to do business in Texas, Florida, Arizona, Missouri, and a long list of other places.

Small businesses are foundering and large ones are either shopping for deals in other counties in CA or being romanced by other states.

Hot tip for small enterprinure today is selling [mandatory] auto insurance to any and all starting at $17 a month. Another is charging to handle vehicle registration in one's native language. I don't see either of those, or lawn maintenance, as doing much for the tax base.

Right now it's even more depressing to watch local real estate dropping like a rock while all the places you want to go to are holding steady.

I'm only here today because I can't lever Ms Norton out of the smog and shopping. [don't remind me, wimping out in my old age]

[dragnet2]

Even Minneapolis Minnesota has substantially more crime per capita than Los Angeles, Ca.

Amazing ain't it?

[hoppity]

It’s very strange to me. I always assumed it was conservatives fleeing CA. Maybe more liberals are, so they can find “quaint” places to raise their kids. I can’t imagine any self-respecting conservative would move out of CA to another state and then start encouraging regulation.

Maybe if we conservatives stick around in CA, it will turn conservative again. Like the liberal flight from LA causing it to be more conservative now. One can dream.

[gridlock]

We are inundated with New Jerseyites and New Yorkers who have no problem telling us how "they do it" up north.

You may be right about that. My apologies on behalf of my obnoxious bretheren. I just assumed that, having escaped from the New Jersey Nightmare, they would emerge chastened and humble.

Bad assumption, eh?

[dragnet2]

Is Atlas Shrugging in Cali?

It that's the case, he must have been shot and killed Georgia.

Atlanta and Los Angeles Comparative Crime Ratios per 100,000 People

[P8riot]

Kalifornia - a good place to be FROM.

[dragnet2]

Kalifornia - a good place to be FROM.

Richmond Virgina and Los Angeles California Comparative Crime Ratios per 100,000 People

[no dems]

OH NO!!!!! Now, all those Blue votes are infiltrating Red States.

[skeeter]

Maybe if we conservatives stick around in CA, it will turn conservative again.

Nice fantasy, but highly implausible.

Thirty five years ago you could take your rifle or shotgun into the Santa Cruz mtns a few miles from town and plink at varmints & abandoned cars. Our front door was left open on summer nights, and I still remember the big initiative to get people to lock their cars ("don't help a good boy go bad").

How did this happen here? To attribute this nations drift to the left on people in one particular region is a rather ignorant oversimplification, IMO. Maybe there's something else going on.

[T-Bird45]

If the Left were consistent, they would forbid people from leaving the People’s Republic of Kali. This is the logic they force on the rest of us when we want to leave their government-imposed monopoly of “public” schools. Then the argument is that those leaving will be “taking resources” from those who don’t leave. Same when whites wanted to flee heavily-minority schools.

Been tried once, found not to work without heavy supplements from outside -- see East Berlin/East Germany. Look for it to be repeated soon since the Left is not known for learning from history.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

So now it’s becoming Teximexifornia?

[ears_to_hear]

If our national leaders could learn from observation they would see a population fleeing from, high taxes, illegal immigrants, terrible schools, social indoctrination and sexual license.

But they will not learn and this story will be repeated elsewhere.

[dragnet2]

Even Oklahoma City has more crime per capita in 5 of the 7 major crime categories than LA, Ca.

Oklahoma City and Los Angeles Comparative Crime Ratios per 100,000 People

[L,TOWM]

Well, I don’t intend to move again. And if some idjit tries to tell me that I can’t raise my kids the way I see fit or do whatever I want with my own property, there is going to be a fight.

[dragonblustar]

That was a good one!

[dragnet2]

But the fact remains, even places like Kansas City Kansas have more crime per capita than LA, Ca. ((Substantially more crime)).

Kansas City and Los Angeles Comparative Crime Ratios per 100,000 People

[An Old Man]

Yep, we have two of them living down the road a piece from us. They think their $500/Acre land, which they purchased for $10,000/Acre is now worth $100,000/Acre. It must be the bigger fools than them principle in action.

Semper Fi
An Old Man

[P8riot]

Crime is just one statistic. Personal freedoms are a lot less than they are in Virginia.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I think North Dakota is a beautiful state. (But I won’t let that slip out amongst my liberal friends and relatives.)