Posted on 01/24/2017 12:28:31 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
Oh please, please, please...
The dream is alive! According to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, there are now more Californians than ever who support the idea of seceding from the United States. Dubbed the “Calexit” movement, the goal is to make California its own country, thus bestowing upon the world a happy, prosperous, California-free, America where it will be virtually impossible to elect a Democrat President.
Not feasible or rational.
This is hyperventilating, pearl grabbing hysteria.
Fun to watch though/
Not to mention the amount of conservatives which will move out of CA and move into swing states like NM, CO, AZ , thus making them more conservative. Win win it seems.
That’s the only way it will happen. The state will have to split maybe into 3 states. The Los Angeles to San Diego part would probably join Mexico (instead of being it’s own country).
We keep the Conservative interior and San Diego, the rest of the commie coastal areas can go, and good riddance. I would not risk even a paper cut to keep the commie costal areas. Let them take 1-2 trillion in debt with them and pay for a large border wall to keep them in their areas.
Can anyone throw out factual reasons why this couldn’t happen?
Staten Island couldn’t secede because the other boroughs blocked it because they need our working taxes for obama’s sons.
There needs to be a parallel movement to expel CA from the Union. CAL-EXPEL
...add another wall
I think we should send them all to Lower California, two states south of San Diego, Baha California and Baha California Sur.
...and then pray for a gigantic tsunami...
I continue to maintain that America will never get this lucky.
Once Californians learn what it would really mean, the idea will quickly die.
Do you honestly think it will be only California?
Too many interconnected business, transportation, national defense issues at stake. A simple plebiscite wouldn’t do it, and if it gathered enough steam it would be easy to diffuse, especially if the vote were from citizens.
It won’t happen because if it did, the new Peple’s Republik of Kalifornia would be broke within a year. Read THIS:
ROFL!
Before the development of the Interstate highway system, rural areas around major cities supplied fruit and vegetable needs, as well as dairy products and poultry. Northern Missouri, upstate New York, East Texas, Tidewater Virginia, and other rural areas, some of which areas are covered by second growth forest or have been converted to pasture, could revert to agriculture.
Okay people
1) The banks in Calif would no longer be members of the Federal Reserve. All dollars in the state would have to outflow because there can be no inflow. They would have to create their own currency, and its conversion to dollars would be horrible.
2) Primarily because of oil. Oil production in Calif is FAR LESS than their consumption. And their oil production is falling. Without dollars they could not pay for import.
3) Yes, there is the drinking water and agricultural water problem. All court cases that give them access to US rivers would be null and void. They would have to relitigate, in US courts, not Calif courts, and they’d have no money to pay the fees.
4) All US military bases would exit. Mexico would have larger forces.
5) Medicare will NOT reimburse for procedures outside the US. All the Calif seniors will be without healthcare.
Thanks.
Yeah I was wondering about the military aspect.
They should worry less about seceding and more about that fault line. Hopefully that doesn’t happen for a very long time.
You mean like in Europe?
I’ll help you pack!
I get a kick out of stuff like this.. Having lived in California for nigh 40 years and watched it bob left and right and finally over the cliff edge..
It’s as divided as ever, and that is neither Bush or Trump’s fault. California has enough of its own self-inflicted faults as is. Its cavalier manner with how it votes.. just like its driving social nature, ‘No Fault No Blame’ rules is just one of them.
Add on that major metro areas wielded the power and population to bring this mess on and now we see the results, a state torn and led around by a complicit leftist media bent constantly unwilling to dig the dirt on the ‘leaders’ of the state DemocRatic movement and their open collusion with unions and other special interests.
The little fellow living in PinePrick ain’t got much to say about party politic these days anyway, at least not offline or thru locally controlled editorial boards of rags across the state or without incurring scorn and ridicule via social media sites.
We don’t need a secession as much as a separation from malcontents&miscreants serving in public offices, one that takes all the scoundrels to task in the public’s full view for a change and not keep pretending things are swell on the plantation to save face and keep the scam alive.
We may be ending a drought of water here but we are seriesly in a deep drought of leadership at all levels of this state’s massive gubamint&kangaroocourt.
Obladi Oblada
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