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Bankrupt California: No money for crumbling roads, but billions for high-speed rail
National Review ^ | 10/09/2012 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/09/2012 5:26:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 10/09/2012 5:26:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 10/09/2012 5:27:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (bOTRT)
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Force the people on to public transportation and you can dictate where they live and when and where they go.


3 posted on 10/09/2012 5:29:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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The vision of a future California is to have the minimal individual vehicle presence, in other words owning your own vehicle will be restricted.Planners already have seen what the congestion will be like if people keep on buying cars, it will only get better if they make them flyable, and then we will get traffic like in many sci-fi movies thousands of feet high.


4 posted on 10/09/2012 5:43:34 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (OPSEC)
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Sorry, but your future of California is a bit off.

There will be no limit on the private ownership of vehicles. There will be no private ownership of vehicles.

If you want to really see the future of private vehicles in California look at Moscow circa 1960, Cuba circa 1980, or North Korea today. Members of the elites. political and social, will have vehicles, mostly foreign made, drive in special lanes, and shop at special stores. the rest of us - lines, shortages, and other blessings of a centrally managed economy so beloved by bureaucrats everywhere.

5 posted on 10/09/2012 6:40:02 AM PDT by Nip (TANSTAAFL and BOHICA)
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Why should you pay taxes to a government that can’t protect your property?


6 posted on 10/09/2012 6:48:09 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Because you’ll get arrested and thrown in jail.


7 posted on 10/09/2012 6:53:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (bOTRT)
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Why should you pay taxes to a government that can’t protect your property?

Because they will kill you if you don't.



8 posted on 10/09/2012 7:14:29 AM PDT by zeugma (Rid the world of those savages. - Dorothy Woods, widow of a Navy Seal, AMEN!)
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Most farmers here are perplexed about why the state would wish to borrow billions and destroy thousands of acres of prime farm land

That's exactly why they're doing it.

9 posted on 10/09/2012 7:43:09 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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After Waco, I understand that there are Democrats who want to kill you if you disagree with them. I also understand that there are psychopaths at the head of the Democrat party. I still think that we should oppose them. A government is not legitimate if it cannot protect its’ citizens and their property. These thieves are making money without paying income tax. They are also using a property-tax-paying landowner’s property without paying property tax. Of what use is the government then? Those who aren’t paying taxes are stealing from those who do pay taxes and the government is unwilling to stop the thievery. This is the government who receives tax money from the victims of this thievery. There’s a law suit in this. The social contract is being broken by the government. Aiding and abetting criminals is still illegal even if government employees do it.


10 posted on 10/09/2012 7:46:51 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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I would ask Mr. Hanson to speak to his neighbors about exercising the “3S” option to deal with these thugs.


11 posted on 10/09/2012 7:48:52 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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Public funded personal hobbies are more important than public funded necessities.


12 posted on 10/09/2012 8:12:48 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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This is U N Agenda 21. Read Rosa Kouri’s book, Behind the Green Mask. Learn what the AGENDA is and how to counter it.


13 posted on 10/09/2012 8:21:17 AM PDT by codder too
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ROSA KOIRE is correct spelling. BEHIND THE GREEN MASK.re.U N AGENDA 21.


14 posted on 10/09/2012 8:32:32 AM PDT by codder too
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California’s Greece.


15 posted on 10/09/2012 8:39:05 AM PDT by GOPJ (You only establish a feel for the line by having crossed it. - - Freeper One Name)
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The social contract is being broken by the government. Aiding and abetting criminals is still illegal even if government employees do it.

If there ever was a 'social contract', it was broken by the government years ago. 

The courts won't consider it aiding and abbeting. They'll just say that the government ahs no specific duty to protect any particular individual's property. They'll use the same 'logic' that lets them off the hook in cases where a person was killed by an assailant, even though the government denied the deceased the means to protect him/herself, even if there was a credible threat to their person, and even if there is a court order 'protecting' them. Unless the court order is ballistic armor, it's really a useless piece of paper.

Personally, I think the people described in the article ought to set up some ambushes, and kill every illegal invader on their property. They don't even have to say anything, just shoot, shut up, and shovel. Word will quickly get around that copper is too expensive to obtain in the area.

16 posted on 10/09/2012 9:12:03 AM PDT by zeugma (Rid the world of those savages. - Dorothy Woods, widow of a Navy Seal, AMEN!)
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I own a small office cleaning service as a supplemental income business and hire subcontractors. Every building I have has been hit by copper thieves -- some of them multiple times.

It's exactly as Hanson describes because one night I saw it go down -- although I didn't realize at the time what was happening.

I was covering for an employee that had taken time off. A huge black SUV with blackened windows races into the nearly-empty parking lot. Some guy on a cell phone non-chalantly emerges from the back of the complex. The SUV turns, the guy gets in and they're gone.

I walk up to the insurance office, turn the key and notice I'm standing in water. I look through the window and the entire building is three inches deep in water.

The jerk had smashed a glass door at a rear area that was under construction (and without alarms) and attempted to remove the copper water pipes. He breached a main.

Three businesses (not including mine) were shut-down for a week and a half due to the water damage.

17 posted on 10/09/2012 9:18:05 AM PDT by GVnana
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[A refinery fire, a power outage, a uniquely Californian gasoline formula, years of regulating refineries into stasis — all that has finally caught up with the state, as prices soar at the pump.]

Sacramento will have a solution—mandate electric vehicles for any citizen or business residing in a municipality.

18 posted on 10/09/2012 9:29:39 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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This just 1 example of the insanity of government = socialism = democrats. socialism doesn’t work.


19 posted on 10/09/2012 9:45:44 AM PDT by Democrat_media (China is destroying all our jobs and manufacturing ability. China makes everything.)
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At the rate things are going, the last person out won’t have to turn out the light. There will be no gas, power or copper left for them to work.


20 posted on 10/09/2012 10:10:37 AM PDT by matt04
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