California has been on a steady downhill slide ever since Moonbeam was elected in the 70’s, remember, Reagan left office with a huge Budget Surplus and the State was booming. Then Moonbeam SPENT all of it and Buried the people in never ending Debt, and of course lets not forget that it was Moonbeam that gave us the Public Employee Unions in California.
The odd thing is housing prices are skyrocketing around here. They go on the market and get multiple offers for more than the asking price the first weekend. Word is it’s out of state investors driving it.
They have to escape before CA builds a wall to keep them in...
He has another worry, perhaps the greatest worry.
The state of New York is heavily advertising about the wonderful advantages of moving businesses there. If that campaign is a success and the trend starts as business moves from California to NY, Brown has a real problem on his hands
As for me, no more voting for the lesser of 2 evils. There's either a conservative on the ballot or I stay home.
How about a new state law, in Texas and other places, that new residents from other states are not allowed to vote for the first 5 years upon arrival?
Otherwise, these newly arrived Californians will spread their “liberal disease” at the polls, ruining everything. They voted for idiots, which is what got them into the mess California faces, but what will stop them from voting for more idiots?
Why am I still here?
Its Democrats firmly believe their policies created the ribbon, when they actually created the Third World country surrounding it.
California's wealth (and its refusal to defend that wealth) has attracted every sort of looter imaginable. This allows it to serve a a kind of a high-tech flypaper for the nation - attracting undesirables that would otherwise be plaguing and damaging their home states.
California also attracts the best and brightest young people from the US and abroad - but it is only going to keep the few that can become successful enough to thrive in its surprisingly Darwinian industries. The politicians miss that last part, apparently not realizing at some point their state's "cool factor" isn't enough to make young $90K/year engineers buy run-down $900K houses in San Jose and settle in California for the long, tax-paying haul, when they can move to Austin, make the same money, and get much nicer houses for $250K.
California's problems may be fixable, but it will take a Reaganesque figure to turn the tide.
Government here in Illinois is trying hard to catch up. Mark my words California, some day we will be #1.
I bet we have more former gov. officials in jail than you do right now.
Find a job, contribute to our society and JOIN it. It doesn't need changing so leave your Liberal BS ideas, PC BS, Eco-BS, and Diversity BS in Califoristan.
If you're not smart enough to know what F'd CA up like a soup sandwich then you belong there, not in Texas.
Are there any stats yet on how many Californians have left ..??