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Why do so many people hate California?
SFGate: Politics Blog ^ | 2/23/12 | Emily Wilkins, Hearst Washington Bureau

Posted on 02/23/2012 1:31:25 PM PST by SmithL

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To: Last of the Mohicans
The problem is that there are too many people, particularly freeloaders, looters, and grifters, who have taken the shine off the Golden State to the point that many have given up on it. I moved out last summer, and I will never look back.


81 posted on 02/23/2012 3:25:44 PM PST by Last of the Mohicans
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To: SmithL
Why do people dislike swimming in sewage? Same thing.
82 posted on 02/23/2012 3:31:53 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: SmithL
“I’m actually quite surprised California fared so poorly,” said Albert M. Camarillo, a professor of history at Stanford University. “I think the national public knows of our difficult budget situation, our higher than average unemployment rate, the still very expensive housing market.”

So Mr. Camarillo...a "History Professor"....starts off surprised..and then basically gives three good reasons why. ROFLOL!!!!

I'd say guy's like Camarillo are part of the problem in CA. He's likely a Liberal Democrat.......and has no problem with rampant illegal immigration to CA. either.

83 posted on 02/23/2012 3:36:30 PM PST by Osage Orange (A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.)
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To: redpoll
California reminds me of a women who was stunning in her youth, surrounded by suitors, but has since glided through life on her reputation, plastic surgery, and pharmecuticals, all the while insisting in a slurred, raspy, drunken voice that she is still the most attractive girl at the party. A shame.

Pretty good description......

84 posted on 02/23/2012 3:41:01 PM PST by Osage Orange (A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.)
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To: brothers4thID

Boy,have you hit the nail on the head.


85 posted on 02/23/2012 3:41:47 PM PST by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: SmithL

Nobody loves you when you’re down and out.


86 posted on 02/23/2012 3:43:19 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Disambiguator
I left in 98....

Now living in OK....it's also a hellhole.

Hotter than hell in the summer...colder than hell in the winter.

Ticks bigger than puppies, mosquitoes the size of chicken hawks.

Never mind the twisters and earthquakes.........

87 posted on 02/23/2012 3:44:25 PM PST by Osage Orange (A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.)
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To: Navy Patriot
Victor Davis Hanson....disagrees with you.
88 posted on 02/23/2012 3:49:18 PM PST by Osage Orange (A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.)
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To: Regulator
Check out these babies.....

http://goldenbeetle.com/Testimonials.html

89 posted on 02/23/2012 3:59:42 PM PST by Osage Orange (A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.)
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To: EyeGuy

Yeah, California is struggling to cope with the changes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIqLz6LqMsU


90 posted on 02/23/2012 4:01:35 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: SmithL
As a native California, the territory is simply wonderful.

However, the politics are atrocious. Everything wrong with the state flows from that. The business climate. The taxes. The cost of living. The judicial inanity. The erosions of liberty. The debt.

With help from the Supreme Court's Reynolds v. Sims in the late 60s, giving us all proportionate state senate districts, CA became a state controlled by mega cities, some of the highest cost, highest crime, worst managed places you'd imagine in the state. As a result, that same failed formula seized control has been replicating to other localities like a cancer.

The state is lost to reason.

Even the moderates and liberals know this. That's why ballot measures try to wrestle some things back to sanity from the extremists who get into the legislature. We've tried term limits for 20 years. They failed. Now we're trying primaries where any "top two" advance to the general. That will fail as well.

With total supremacy over the state within reach as soon as November's election, Democrats will again try to restrict or eliminate the initiative process so the People cannot question their rulers' edicts.

A lot of the outside hatred of CA is a media myth from both conservative and liberal voices. The state is not going bankrupt; "the reset of you" won't have to "bailout" California. The GDP to debt ratio is easily manageable. The California State GDP is enormous even in bad economic times, California residents pay more federal taxes then they get back in federal services. That's not true for most states and it irritates me when people from states that take more in federal services than they pay in federal tax attack California.

91 posted on 02/23/2012 4:10:29 PM PST by newzjunkey (Santorum voted for Sotomayor, Obama's 1st choice for Supreme Court.)
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To: Last of the Mohicans

Pretty complimentary picture of Boxer..............and frankly of Senator Plastic...too.


92 posted on 02/23/2012 4:13:10 PM PST by Osage Orange (A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.)
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To: Osage Orange
Victor Davis Hanson thinks Stanford rocks.

When they were the Indians they did, they took scalps whenever they pleased.

Now they're just the Reds, and they act like it.

They're eclipsed by Redwood trees, and logic nearly as well, but you'll never hear it from him.

93 posted on 02/23/2012 4:13:22 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: ColdOne

Another idiot heard from. Idaho takes $1.14 per dollar of taxes paid to the federal government. California takes $0.78 per dollar of taxes paid to the federal government. Now tell Californians again why they deserve to be hated while you sit in a federal funding addicted state subsidized by California’s hard-working residents.


94 posted on 02/23/2012 4:16:50 PM PST by newzjunkey (Santorum voted for Sotomayor, Obama's 1st choice for Supreme Court.)
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To: newzjunkey

When CA asks for a bail-out from the other “56” states....will you apologize to us? : )


95 posted on 02/23/2012 4:18:11 PM PST by Osage Orange (A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.)
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To: Navy Patriot
That wasn't my point....and I figure you know that.

Yeah, the "Cardinal" is dumb...and the tree mascot is beyond dumb.

I'm part Indian...and I'd be all for them changing the name back.

96 posted on 02/23/2012 4:23:30 PM PST by Osage Orange (A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.)
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To: I see my hands

Actually ... LA will become an Island, or at least the western part of it. It is already on the Pacific Plate.

The eastern part of LA will become rubble, buried under the pacific plate.

And those hills where you are sipping tea - will become an inland sea.


97 posted on 02/23/2012 4:25:16 PM PST by patton ("Je pense donc je suis," - My Horse.)
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To: SmithL

I don’t hate California, just the people in it.


98 posted on 02/23/2012 4:26:41 PM PST by glorgau
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To: Osage Orange
I know,

I know,

I know (I pay attention)

and that's why I'm so obnoxious while accurate.

99 posted on 02/23/2012 4:31:20 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: newzjunkey
Isn't it all just a numbers game?

I mean...more population, more collected monies.

For sure...CA has more people on the dole...than Idaho. Per capita, probably not. But I don't know.

Of course there's plenty of hardworking American's in very state.....you no doubt agree with that. Right?

BTW..I was born and raised in SoCal. I have family still there....My oldest daughter moved back there. I don't hate Californians.....I do hate what's happened to the state, since I was a kid.

FWIW-

100 posted on 02/23/2012 4:34:18 PM PST by Osage Orange (A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.)
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