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Big Idea: California Is So Over
thedailybeast.com ^ | 04/19/15 | Joel Kotkin

Posted on 04/19/2015 6:43:42 AM PDT by amnestynone

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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Pete Wilson had a GOP Assembly briefly from 1995-96 and that marked the beginning of the rapid decay in the state. You'd need Conservative Governors and legislators running the state for decades to begin to undo the damage.
61 posted on 04/19/2015 12:31:12 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Rusty0604

“The environmentalists will have concerns over the effect of dumping the salt back into the ocean on marine life (maybe a good point), so committees will be formed and studies will be funded.”

Brine released in deep ocean waters has a miniscule effect.


62 posted on 04/19/2015 1:08:42 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Barack Obama is not inarguably sane.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

That is the problem here in NJ as well; Christie can only do so much (and he at least stabilized the tax situation, resulting in a lot of layoffs of public employees we can’t afford), but it will take a long time to make up the lost ground.

Look at what Obama has wrought in seven years (and I don’t think we’ll recover from most of it).


63 posted on 04/19/2015 1:50:05 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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And you’ll well remember for a time at the end of Flim Flam Florio’s term and for part of Whitman’s, the GOP had huge legislative majorities in Trenton, only to piss it all away.


64 posted on 04/19/2015 1:53:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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“And you’ll well remember for a time at the end of Flim Flam Florio’s term and for part of Whitman’s, the GOP had huge legislative majorities in Trenton, only to piss it all away.”

Yuhp, somehow big business gets taken care of. after that there is either no desire or any political capitol left to take care of us.


65 posted on 04/19/2015 1:57:01 PM PDT by amnestynone (A big government conservative is just a corporatist who is not paying enough taxes.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yes, too many RINOs here; Christie is an ultra-conservative by comparison (he has all the right leftist enemies).


66 posted on 04/19/2015 2:25:10 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: amnestynone
And there needs to be, at least for the short term, an end to dumping water into San Francisco Bay for the purpose of restoring a long-gone salmon run, or to the Delta, in order to save a bait-fish, the Delta smelt, which may already be close to extinct. This dumping of water has continued even as the state has faced a potentially crippling water shortage; nothing is too good for our fish, or to salve the hyper-heated consciousness of the environmental illuminati.

Wow.

67 posted on 04/19/2015 3:17:04 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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68 posted on 04/19/2015 3:19:29 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: vette6387

Last year the rainfall was much less than this year. Northern CA got just a bit less than average this year. The Central valley and the south didn’t fare as well, still they got more than last year.

California is a beautiful state with unbeatable weather (near the coast) and the diversity of scenery is unmatched. As bad as the politics are, it is hard to leave it.


69 posted on 04/19/2015 11:33:24 PM PDT by aquila48
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