Posted on 06/23/2005 10:40:12 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
No, they all come from somewhere else. New York mostly, but also the proverbial town in the Mid West. A few "Hollywood types" are native to CA, darn few. And the majority of them are the kids of transplants from the East. The rest are from other parts of the country.
Ted Turner is not from CA, neither is Brokaw, Gibson, Rubin, Redford, the list goes on and on. California was a nice Western state until the East moved West.
They may be from somewhere else, however the elitist hollywood culture that they embraced is obvious.
Guess they've cashed in on their ill gotten gains.
All the people who lost their life savings thanks to Rubin's chicanery as Secretary of the Treasury.
I never could watch Brokaw. I always thought he was a phony.
I have cancelled my newspaper subscriptions too.
Before I got a computer I relied on the weekly issue of Washington Times.
You did good.
Reminds me of a South Park episode:
Robert Redford: This is perfect. Why didn't we think of it sooner? This town still has some charm left, not the mess we turned Park City into.
Phyllis: Forgive me for being observant, but, won't we just end up doing the same thing to this town?
Robert Redford: Yes. And the town after, and the town after that. Like termites, we will move this film festival from town to town until we have used it up. And then move on, until every quiet mountain town is like Los Angeles.
Phyllis: Why? Why would we do such a thing?
Robert Redford: Because we have to live in L.A. And if we can't live in quiet, simple, peaceful mountain towns, then nobody will! [Laughs maniacally] Waitwaitwait. Zoom in to a close-up of my face when I do that. Ready? Then NOBODY will!
Developers reap benefits at expense of governments
By Allen G. Breed and Martha Mendoza ASSOCIATED PRESS April 4, 2004
Millions of dollars in property tax breaks intended to preserve farmland are going instead to companies that bulldoze farms to build housing subdivisions, malls and industrial parks, an Associated Press investigation has found......
In most states, the tax breaks date to the 1950s and '60s, when lawmakers became alarmed at the rate at which farmland was disappearing under concrete and asphalt.
But loopholes in the laws are producing unintended, though perfectly legal, consequences.
Here's what's happening: A developer buys land with the intention of building on it. During the years when he readies the property for construction preparing architectural plans, acquiring financing and permits, even building roads and laying water pipe he runs some cows or cuts some hay. Then he claims the tax break. Because of the loopholes, often even a pretense of farming can be enough to qualify.
Usually, the tax break ends only after construction of buildings begins; sometimes, it doesn't even stop then.
In California, which has more stringent requirements for its land preservation laws than most other states, pop star Michael Jackson saved more than $1 million in property taxes on his Neverland Ranch by claiming the land conservation tax break.
Every state offers some type of tax incentive to protect land from development.
Land Trusts, Members of Congress, Big Industry Testify Exclusively
Congress Holds Stacked Hearing on Conservation Tax Credits Big Capital Gains Tax Break would Shift Private Land and Conservation Easements to Land Trusts and Government
By Carol W. LaGrasse There was no chance to be heard. The House Ways and Means Committee's Select Revenue Measures Committee held an advocates-only oversight hearing on April 29 to "scrutinize" the Bush Administration's proposal to "encourage conservation" by granting a fifty percent reduction in the capitol gains tax if a landowner sells land or conservation easements to the government or a non-profit land trust.........
Well I think the land should be used for a public housing project, a homeless shelter and a drug rehabilition center. The fresh air would be good for these poor people.
How could that be? The American people once believe every lie that Tom Brokaw told them in his popular SD accent.
And the leftist media elites just loved Rubin too.
is this the same Tom Brokaw who used to host a US TeeVee show back 20th century? I thought he was dead.
You would not want to be Ted Turner.
He's is miserable.
OK, I read it your post #13 and it read:
"..Hollywood types are Kalifornians,.."
These "Hollywood types" come from New York City and congregate around movie town. California was a Live and Let Live state until these freaks came from back East and ruined it. The Hollywood culture, as you call it, they brought with them from New York.
How many of the Hollywood types that are buying up the grand ranches in Montana, Wyoming and the Dakota's are native Californians?
Hollywood culture has more to do with New York City culture, even though Hollywood is geographically located in California, than it does with original California Western culture. Hollywood is merely NYC with better weather. Your presumption that California and Hollywood are equivalent is the same as my assuming that you're an "Abo" just because you're an "Aussie".
Birds of a feather.....
Sorry mate.. somehow I couldn't agree with that statement.. I have worked both in NYC and LA. Your observation is off the mark.
But then yours is not spot on as well, We're all entitled to our opinions based upon our perceptions, real or imagined. If all California is like Hollywood to you, well then, keep that thought. You're welcome to it.
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