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To: Gritty
It's going to be interesting to watch how this "harmonic convergence" plays out.
  1. We essentially have a dictator in California, since Davis renews his "emergency powers" month by month. The RAT legislature, who could rescind them, chose not to.
  2. Both the legislature and the governor openly flout the California Constitution provisions on borrowing money (Which requires a vote of the people to borrow over $300,000).
  3. The legislature, juciciary, and the governor openly flout voter iniatives, like Prop. 187 on illegals, and Prop. 2 on using the Highway Trust Fund for highways (what a concept). Davis just signed an EO to use it for other things, regardless. Nobody cares.
  4. Davis has burdened California with $108 billion in new debt since he has been in office...that we know about. Nobody there seems to care. The number is apparently just too big to comprehend. Let me help. That's $9,000 per California household, assuming that everyone pays taxes equally (cough).

This quote comes to mind:

Power concedes nothing without a demand... It never did... and it never will... Find out just what the people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.....
— Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857.

19 posted on 08/21/2002 2:48:22 PM PDT by snopercod
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To: snopercod
Nice comments.

I wish there were some way I could refute them! I used to love California. Now, you couldn't get me to live there for anything.

It's fast becoming a Socialist Hell-Hole and the sad thing is, the majority of people there no longer seem to care or else they approve of the change. The demographics have changed that much in just a few years. They're going from bad to worse.

20 posted on 08/21/2002 2:57:35 PM PDT by Gritty
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