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If California Is Doing So Great, Why Are So Many Leaving?
The New Geography ^ | 12/14/2010 | Bill Watkins

Posted on 12/14/2010 7:34:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 12/14/2010 7:34:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Atlas shrugged, packed and left.


2 posted on 12/14/2010 7:36:59 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: SeekAndFind

California - great place to live, just wouldn’t want to reside there.


3 posted on 12/14/2010 7:38:17 AM PST by Jim W N
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If California Is Doing So Great, Why Are So Many Leaving?

To make room for the mexicans.

4 posted on 12/14/2010 7:39:31 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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The spin I heard the other day on our local radio the other day was that CA has actually “gained” population.

Methinks perhaps they are counting illegal alien births in that tally.

The only businesses thriving around here are the U Haul franchises.

It will get much worse now that Moonbeam is back AND the idiots here voted to allow the demtard legislature to force any budget they want on us with a simple majority.


5 posted on 12/14/2010 7:40:14 AM PST by jazminerose (o)
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Welcome to The Pipple's Republik of Kalifornication...

(The pipple are continually being screwed by the Republik)

6 posted on 12/14/2010 7:40:44 AM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

If you read the article, you’ll see that even the illegals are saying “No” to California. Wow, huh?


7 posted on 12/14/2010 7:44:23 AM PST by piytar (0's idea of power: the capacity to inflict unlimited pain and suffering on another human being. 1984)
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To: Jim 0216

You can’t find better weather in any other state in the mainland.

The reason why many still stay is because the great weather is probably still worth thousands of dollars in taxes.


8 posted on 12/14/2010 7:45:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
The people who are staying are the people who the politicians of California want to stay. The people who are leaving are the people who the politicians of California want to leave.

In a way, it's a consequence of the fact that Americans can move anywhere in America they like. The scumbags like nice weather and beautiful Pacific ocean views as much as any of the rest of us. More scumbags per capita moved to California, just like more of every other catagory of society per capita moved to California. Only problem is, the scum voted their own into the legislature, and that's making the state kind of unattractive to the non-scum, who don't have the patience to put up with it.

California has to hit bottom. It's always been out front of national trends; maybe it'll be out front with the "hitting bottom" trend too. We'll see.

Full disclosure: I lived there when I was a little kid, and I'll never forget what it was like back in 1960.

9 posted on 12/14/2010 7:45:16 AM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: SeekAndFind

Worse yet, the liberals moving out of California are screwing up the states they move into!


10 posted on 12/14/2010 7:45:23 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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Although I think California is one of the most beautiful states I would have moved a long time ago..Give it to the Mexicans and blacks and lets not forget Jerry Brown..Lets see how the place turns out then..Old Jerry will have a tough time collecting taxes from those dead beat Gangs..Let him have it..
11 posted on 12/14/2010 7:47:11 AM PST by PLD
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California, which has been run by democrats for decades, is now feeling the effects of all their liberal policies forced on Californians by the legislature and a steady succession of liberal and RINO governors.

California now finds itself in the same boat as Michigan, Illinois, Massachusetts and many other states that are facing huge budget deficits and the distinct possibility of bankruptcies.

If it were up to the democrats, they would have turned states like Ohio and Pennsylvania into a failed state like Michigan which has been dominated by democrats for decades.

Such is the legacy of modern day unions.

The remedy is to get state and federal spending under the strictest of control and begin a nationwide campaign for pension reform.


12 posted on 12/14/2010 7:48:08 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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No one in their right mind would build a plant in California. You’d go somewhere where they want you.

Like China.

California’s problems are self-inflicted and they have yet to face them. The first step toward fixing a problem is admitting that you are the problem and California keeps heading down the same road as stubborn as anyone can be.

They have oil gurgling up through the ocean floor that they refuse to go after. To sit, bankrupt and unemployed while huge resources sit untouched is criminally stupid, and thats California.


13 posted on 12/14/2010 7:48:33 AM PST by marron
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To: SeekAndFind

I left this month and am not looking back!


14 posted on 12/14/2010 7:49:31 AM PST by JRios1968 (What is the difference between 0bama and his dog, Bo? Bo has papers.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course Time, that piece of garbage, ran an article about the state that is out of tune with the rest of the country and far behind.


15 posted on 12/14/2010 7:51:13 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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This is a public service announcement:

A message for all libs escaping CA, stay North. Do not go the the South. It's humid and the people are mean. You wouldn't like it there.

16 posted on 12/14/2010 7:53:34 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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California's political class needs first to confront reality before we can hope to avoid a dismal future.

That ain't going to happen. I was born here, and have lived 50 years here.

Liberals own this state. The decline will continue because the middle class has no power or representation whatsoever. Ruling class elitists, government, and Mexicans is the future here. And I say Mexicans as in Mexican/Central/South American nationals. So, we have another leftist, corrupt, "Latino" style country that the scum at the top can play with, being created right in front of our very eyes.

17 posted on 12/14/2010 7:54:27 AM PST by ecomcon
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CA...the detroit of states...or rather, the mexico of states. anyone that wants to see the future of CA can take a cruise down the Salinas Valley.
18 posted on 12/14/2010 7:54:57 AM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: SeekAndFind

The talented techies aren’t stupid enough to stay in California.

However, the bums are plenty smart enough to stay.


19 posted on 12/14/2010 7:56:21 AM PST by Soothesayer ("The vile person shall be no more called liberal" Isaiah 32:5-8)
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To: JRios1968

where did u move to ?


20 posted on 12/14/2010 7:57:46 AM PST by ncalburt (Get Even on Election Day)
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