We are becoming a nation of looters and parasites. Thou shall not covet other people’s stuff is so old-fashioned. And surely racist.
The clock to REV II keeps ticking down, it is almost at midnight now.
Rush Limbaugh, as usual, quickly identified the fact that Obama and his minions are waging war on the suburbs. This is the California state-level version of this war. If you think California is going downhill now—you’ve not seen anything yet. Wait and see what happens if Prop 31 passes.
Suburbanites—you will be slaves to the Liberals and their constituents.
Consolidated all the quaint little German towns into more easily administrated political entities?
Republicans are going to have to learn how to win the cities.
Long-term nations are becoming more urbanized. This means that more and more voters will be in urban areas. Hence, conceding them to the Democrats is self-defeating.
Cities are also the economic powerhouses of the nation. Blue states are the ones which pay more to the federal government and subsidize the Red.
Cities are the source of civilization as the word itself shows. Every great civilization has a great city at its center.
So this is UN Agenda 21 to be implemented at the state level.
Isn’t this essentially what happened in places like Jacksonville, Florida and Columbus, Ohio that went out and annexed the whole danged County?
I wonder what’s meant by ‘regional’ and ‘local’? Are any geographic or mileage restrictions?
If this comes about and I was part of one of the local governments that’s doing ok or better than ok, I’d be searching across the _entire_ state of CA to find other local governments I could team up with, versus being forced into a partnership with the neighbors down the road who can’t take care of their own affairs.
Oh, and the best part: the apartments will rent for round $2,000.00 per month.
I sit here in my house in a pine forest on some land in Aiken County, SC and have two thoughts:
Not surprised, as states like California loose more and more tax revenue they will be looking at more and more ways to separate hard working people from their money and at the same time ensure that the voice of those being robbed is effectively silenced.
They are doing this here in NY State too.
There are activists claiming that there is too much “duplication” in our town Governments - schools, police, fire, soc. services could all be managed much more effectively if the local Gov’ts dissolved themselves into county or regional size Gov’t, thus creating super-size school districts, etc..
And most “small-Gov’t” types shout: “yeah! We can cut Gov’t employees and gov’t expenditure!”
They just don’t realize that everything will be combined to the lowest common denominator. Unions will then control not only the city employees of Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, but you can be sure they will control the suburban employees too. School districts will be run the same way. Standards and indoctrination will be run for everyone as they are now in the hell-hole urban districts. If there are any cost or tax savings, they will be very short-lived. I guarantee you there will be no tax savings in the long-run.
How are the “regions” defined?
Can’t the “rich” suburbs get together and form their own?
sounds like a third way op.. Thanks for posting.
If this passes, Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon better watch out, because there will be an exidous from California like never seen before. I’m glad I got out when I did.
Well, I’m a month late to this particular party, but like a lot of folks here, I’ve been distracted by the national campaign, and hadn’t realized that something this radical had made it onto the ballot.
Thank you for sounding the alarm (and for the link to Hertzberger’s report.) This prop. really prompted the “who are those guys?” reflex while I was reading the voter pamphlet over the weekend.
Bottom line is that it’s not hyperbole to note that this measure would effectively end four centuries of representative self-rule, at least as it’s still understood in the US, and at least in California. The power grab is breathtaking.
Ping...haven’t seen you on any prop. 31 thread. This may be the most important item on the California ballot this year. Time to rally the troops!