Posted on 10/20/2017 4:15:14 PM PDT by Twotone
It’s not easy watching California self-destruct. After all, my four sons are 6th generation Californians. One relative of ours journeyed here prior to the Gold Rush when the state population was just a handful of people. Family lore has it he was a gunslinger who, victorious in a gun duel, headed to California to avoid the law. He ended up ranching on what is now known as Mammoth Mountain. Other family members took part in the gold rush and one ended up discovering gold in 1895 in the Mojave Desert. My grandparents arrived in Kern County in the 1930s and worked as teachers educating the children of oil workers shortly after the discovery of oil in that region.
Proud of my heritage, I had this urge to run for the state legislature, so I did and I won. I was hoping I could do something in Sacramento to slow the decline of the Golden State. But it was not to be. I quickly discovered that the legislature was so dominated by far left ideologues, there was nothing that could be done to reverse course. My Democrat colleagues were not concerned one bit about how their policies were destroying the economic golden goose that made California so famous worldwide. Indeed, they actually believe their big government and nanny state policies have made California the model of how progressives can succeed in governing. Seriously.
25% of it’s citizens are under the poverty line.
Not so much anymore, since the water was taken from the Central Valley farmers. Thousands of acres there are dry & dormant.
Food scientists at Cornell University have produced a strain of broccoli that thrives in hot environments, which may make it possible for states with stiflingly hot summers to grow the vegetable. California, where cool coastal fog is perfect for growing standard broccoli, currently produces more than 90 percent of the broccoli grown in the United States. If California were to disappear, what would the American diet be like?
Expensive and grainy. California produces a sizable majority of many American fruits, vegetables, and nuts: 99 percent of artichokes, 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic, 89 percent of cauliflower, 71 percent of spinach, and 69 percent of carrots (and the list goes on and on). Some of this is due to climate and soil. No other state, or even a combination of states, can match California’s output per acre. Lemon yields in California, for example, are more than 50 percent higher than in Arizona. California spinach yield per acre is 60 percent higher than the national average. Without California, supply of all these products in the United States and abroad would dip, and in the first few years, a few might be nearly impossible to find. Orchard-based products in particular, such as nuts and some fruits, would take many years to spring back.
Prior to that California had been reliably Republican, 1964 the exception, since 1952.
Prior to that California had voted Republican 14 out of 25 presidential elections.
One earthquake away from beachfront Vegas ...
I guess you and I are alone in our thinking...it’s a different Baldwin from the actor’s family. Stephen Baldwin is a New Yorker and nothing appears online to associate him with CA. There was a Steve Baldwin in the CA Assembly years ago but I can’t get the page to come in to link to it so apparently that is him....
Man Twotone, the Kern River sure is something.
Sometimes simply a creek and other times as roaring a river as there is anywhere.
“Food From California.”
Thought you would say “WEED.”
Uh, speaking of stiflingly hot summers, have you ever been to the CA San Joaquin Valley in the dead of summer?
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I’ve always used the phrase “producers and makers vs. users and takers.”
I left CA in 1979. I am 66 now.
Where do they get most of their water to grow these things?
That would be rather great comeback, if it weren’t for what a small slice of California’s citizens are actually farmers.
One state providing 11% of the nation’s agricultural products is rather impressive.
If we are really really lucky you will be visiting California when it happens.
God I wish I can leave this forsaken state. I am pissed right now,ok I went in last Friday to take my 2007 Toyota Corolla for a smog I assume would pass like previously. The results was I did not pass due to a code.
What happen was I took my car for maintenance & to have the car battery replace for a new one. Big Mistake! The tech told me that it has to do with the computer. The Smog Tech told me I needed to drive around especially on the freeway. I told him I do not drive on freeways. He told me I have too (with a smile). So now what? I live alone, no family members to help me nor a friend. My car registration is due on November 12. I can get a retest for free but I don’t have money to spend on every dam smog check since I’m unemployed.
This state I remember growing up in the 60’s & 70’s & California was a golden state. Now is still golden due to Moonbeam pissing on the state. Taxes & regulations is strangling this once beautiful state, but I need money to move out.
Much of that produce can be grown in other places. I grow enough garlic in my own backyard for a year for me and my kids.
NY state has an amazing agriculture but lots of people don’t realize it, and yes, it’s only during the summer.
But still, if push comes to shove, there are other places to take up the slack.
Living in TX, I know most of our veggies are imported from Mexico, not CA
With any luck will slid into Pacific during next earthquake
and be rid of them......
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Yes, because conservatives living in California are worthless and deserving of cataclysmic death, just as you were worthless and deserving of death while Obama was in office. What part of “those in office don’t represent me or my values” didn’t you learn through the 8 hellish years of Obama?
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thanks for posting that rebuttal. There are lots of good people in California. In fact, I know a few of them.
This “damn them all” attitude is more typical of liberals, and any Freeper should be ready to call it out as nonsense.
We may have to do that anyway as environmental policies in the state are choking the agriculture in the state.
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