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Shattuck: #CALEXIT would be a truly golden idea If they want to leave so bad, go ahead, let ’em
The Boston Herald ^ | 08-03-17 | Tom Shattuck

Posted on 08/03/2017 2:22:39 AM PDT by calvincaspian

California could secede from the United States. Signatures are being hurriedly gathered for a 2018 ballot initiative that would begin the process of independence for the Golden State.

Awesome. Break a leg. I wholeheartedly endorse “#Calexit” and here’s why you should too.

About a third of the entire welfare population of the United States lives in California. Let’s make that the Independent Country of California’s problem, not ours.

An estimated 2,350,000 illegal immigrants (about the population of Connecticut) reside there too. In the new California they can all be legalized and won’t have to dwell “in the shadows.”

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: calexit; california; newcalifornia; secession; timdraper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Why don’t California, Oregon and Washington join Canada. Maybe New England too.”

Cali is politically two states; northern half of state is red. So, suggest that the northern half be allowed to remain in the union as a state and the southern half go its own way. Besides, we (U.S.) needs to retain a corridor to the Pacific.


41 posted on 08/03/2017 5:19:44 AM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: FatherofFive

buy it from Hickenlooper and Wyoming?

Great query!


42 posted on 08/03/2017 5:21:28 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: calvincaspian; All

Victor Davis Hanson on Calexit: Natural Resources Are In Red Parts Of The State

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/08/02/victor_davis_hanson_on_calexit_californias_natural_resources_are_in_the_red_parts_of_the_state.html


43 posted on 08/03/2017 5:25:51 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (You for avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why don’t CaliFORNIANS, OregONIANS, and WashingTONIANS leave to live in Canada?


44 posted on 08/03/2017 5:26:55 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (You for avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: calvincaspian

THe Calexit folks will also be rewarded with their portion of the national debt based on population. Win-win.


45 posted on 08/03/2017 5:29:41 AM PDT by georgiarat (The most expensive thing in the world is a cheap Army and Navy. - Carl Vinson)
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To: Libloather

Puerto Rico is a welfare swamp. Do not admit it into the union.


46 posted on 08/03/2017 5:31:30 AM PDT by rcofdayton (.)
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To: calvincaspian

How many military bases are in CA? They have to be carved out as well.


47 posted on 08/03/2017 5:32:49 AM PDT by randita (PLEASE STOP ALL THE WORTHLESS VANITIES!)
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To: randita

How about we just purge the traitors and bring California back to what it used to be when Reagan was governor?


48 posted on 08/03/2017 5:47:51 AM PDT by JMS
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To: calvincaspian

California would become a national security nightmare.

It would create another border, 770 miles long.

A coast the same length which would be open to the world’s criminals and US enemies.

Talk of calexit is nonsense and the US government should end it.


49 posted on 08/03/2017 5:55:01 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: littleharbour

Make I-5 a toll road.

Rewire the pump motors at the Edmuntson Pumping Station on the California Water Project to solar panels and windmills.


50 posted on 08/03/2017 6:01:15 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: exDemMom

One example is Ellison.... major houses all around the country, such as the one in Newport, RI.

Zuckerberg has his 700-acre, walled estate in Kauai.


51 posted on 08/03/2017 6:07:18 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

My husband’s company moved out of California 8 years ago. Many families went with the company to Arizona....most if us are Conservative. What a relief! Now, with all the illegals here, Arizona is starting to trend Blue. I loved the beauty and the activities that California had/has. But I can still go visit and don’t have to pay the exorbitant taxes anymore.


52 posted on 08/03/2017 6:11:48 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Won't happen. But if it did, there would be more than one state or country coming out of it. The State of Jefferson would use the opportunity to split from California and either go it alone or remain in the US.

State of Jefferson

53 posted on 08/03/2017 6:13:49 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: originalbuckeye

Soros wants to turn Arizona Commie Red. That’s why he dumped money into the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Race to get rid of Joe Arpaio and install his pro-illegal/pro-criminal Demoncrat puppet Penzone.


54 posted on 08/03/2017 6:14:01 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: randita
How many military bases are in CA? They have to be carved out as well.

33 at last count, along with more than 110,000 active-duty troops assigned.

55 posted on 08/03/2017 6:14:48 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: old curmudgeon

It’ll never happen. CA needs Fedzilla’s money. CA could get more autonomy immediately. Just refuse federal money. But CA ain’t doing that, is it?

Note to CA progs: Talk is cheap.


56 posted on 08/03/2017 6:16:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: cmj328
Letting States go without a war is really short-sighted.

What a blood thirsty animal you are. So how may young men have to die to keep a state IN the union to make the chicken hawks happy?

Hey is this your picture:


57 posted on 08/03/2017 6:18:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I agree. I actually know ‘new’ Arizonans who bought into the Soros funded ads slamming Joe and voted for Penzone, Makes me sick, but naive people are easily manipulated. Penzone is a puppet. And the Blue judge who convicted Joe without allowing him a jury trial should be impeached or whatever ........removed from her judgeship. Arizona is fighting back, but it is a bit overwhelming.


58 posted on 08/03/2017 6:20:35 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: vooch; cmj328

Ignore the chicken hawks, the are a tiny minority anyway.


59 posted on 08/03/2017 6:20:38 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: calvincaspian

CA would receive ‘foreign aid’ from us; whites the difference.


60 posted on 08/03/2017 6:20:58 AM PDT by Joe Bfstplk (A Texas Deplorable.)
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