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It’s O.K., California. Breaking Up Isn’t Hard to Do
New York Times ^ | 04/04/2017 | By STEVEN GREENHUT

Posted on 04/04/2017 8:25:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 04/04/2017 8:25:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

We’d be better off without them.

They would be a 3rd world country if not kept under check.

They should also be forced to pay for the defense we would be providing them.


2 posted on 04/04/2017 8:28:12 AM PDT by boycott
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To: SeekAndFind

I dont care if California leaves the US...

BUT

I care a LOT about them breaking up into multiple states and getting more Senators!

NO WAY!


3 posted on 04/04/2017 8:29:54 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: boycott

California is a part of the USA. The better plan is to reform california and change the way they think.


4 posted on 04/04/2017 8:32:17 AM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

california should remain whole and a part of the USA. the better plan is for the rest of the USA to change the culture of california to look more like the USA.


5 posted on 04/04/2017 8:33:33 AM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: SeekAndFind

How can I help make #CALEXIT a reality?


6 posted on 04/04/2017 8:34:12 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh my no more bailouts or disaster funds


7 posted on 04/04/2017 8:34:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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How would we do that? Indoctrination centers, forced internments?


8 posted on 04/04/2017 8:34:59 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Women who are 25 pounds overweight tend to live longer than the men who mention it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Perhaps we could allow the leftist western areas to secede and retain the eastern Conservative portions. The western parts could become an equivalent of Singapore, and when the “Big One” hits, who will miss it?


9 posted on 04/04/2017 8:35:46 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ("You know Caligula?" --- "Worse! Caligula knows me!")
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“I care a LOT about them breaking up into multiple states and getting more Senators!

NO WAY!”

I feel the same way about Texas, so we’re even. But not unlike Texas most of California, land area-wise, is Conservative, so breaking up both states would be a plus for the Senate. The problem for Texas though is how do you craft a “liberal state” that includes only Houston, Dallas, Austin, Whacko, The Rio Grande Counties and San Antonio? It would look like a worm.


10 posted on 04/04/2017 8:37:10 AM PDT by vette6387
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How would we do that? Indoctrination centers, forced internments?

Simply ending direct government subsidies to illegals would accomplish 80% of the goal.

11 posted on 04/04/2017 8:37:21 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: TexasFreeper2009

An East West split would net a Red State.


12 posted on 04/04/2017 8:37:53 AM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. I have been a DOS / PC guy forever and always e)
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I have yet to see a map of a divided California that I am in agreement with. This comes pretty close:


13 posted on 04/04/2017 8:38:46 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Women who are 25 pounds overweight tend to live longer than the men who mention it.)
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To: vette6387

Like the Gerrymander.


14 posted on 04/04/2017 8:39:01 AM PDT by 91B40
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To: SeekAndFind

I tell you what...

If you at the same time combine CT, RI, MA, NH and VT into one mid size state thus eliminating 8 liberal Senators...
THEN I will support splitting California down the middle with a northern California and Southern California which gains 2.

Net effect -6 liberal Senators.


15 posted on 04/04/2017 8:39:25 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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You break it into three parts. One part is San Francisco area to Los Angeles. The rest is broken into two parts, north and south. You would have two red states and one blue state


16 posted on 04/04/2017 8:39:44 AM PDT by McGavin999
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To: SeekAndFind

If the day come California leaves the union...

The very next day the red 75% would leave California and rejoin the union.

Good luck with a “country” made up islands along a coast with no water or power...


17 posted on 04/04/2017 8:40:04 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“I care a LOT about them breaking up into multiple states and getting more Senators!”

Exactly. If they split we end with 2 more Rat senators. Northern CA is not as bad but still infested with rats. No it’s better for us if they leave. CA has gangrene, better to cut it off and save the body.


18 posted on 04/04/2017 8:40:44 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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Split off San Francisco, Alameda, and L A counties.

Let them go. Leave the rest of California to the Americans.


19 posted on 04/04/2017 8:41:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Be interesting to Hellifornia secede. Want to see how they’re going to fund their own private army, pave and maintain their own roads and infrastructure, pay for their own mega-universities without federal money, educate their college and high school without the availability of Pell grants and high school supplements, how they’re going to related to American military bases such as MCRD, San Diego, Camp Pendleton, the Navy and Air Force bases. How they’re going to pay for Colorado River water. How Maxine Waters is going to run for the presidency, how Pelosi won’t have a place to go in the mornings, how she won’t have any constituency or California colleagues in Congress. It’s all going to be fun to watch, especially of American military forces are sent in to arrest the president of a foreign power.


20 posted on 04/04/2017 8:41:49 AM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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