[MarvinStinson]

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[hal ogen]

Good luck to all FReepers and like souls. Cali is interesting to watch from afar.

[Mr. K]

The government spending rule of 10’s.

Any government project will cost 10 times as much as originally estimated.

Corrolary:

This also applies to revised estimates.

[dragnet2]

Let me just say from the outset that I still miss California.

That's why I'm staying. I have no desire to give up the best to settle for less.

I'll stay and continue to operate behind enemy lines. And FWIW, it's my opinion the leftist in CA have over played their hands with their anti-American lunatic policies. The worm is turning.☺

[RedStateRocker]

With open borders cheap labor express and gullible Republicans as much to blame as any democrat for the influx from the south, thank you very much. GWB is as much to blame as Brown, arguably Brown is the symptom.

Either the Trump Administration comes to our rescue here in occupied California or they are no better than the dingbats in Sacramento. And anyone suggesting that my family and I leave, F.O.A.D. along with their entire bloodline- *we* didn’t turn this state into a pseudo third world hellhole, the last three Republican presidents let the camel not only get its nose under the tent but mate and reproduce.

[northislander]

Old senile Marxist Jesuit

[CedarDave]

Not a blog; first published at the Washington Times:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/18/the-great-california-train-wreck/

[NRx]

I lived in Cali for ten years 2005-15. And despite its very real weirdness, I can also attest that it was fun. But I am not sorry to be have left. Like Detroit and Puerto Rico, and soon Illinois and New Jersey, the state is on a collision course with reality. I am not sure how much time they have left. But when it finally happens, things are going to get ugly.

[SaveFerris]

[ Which brings us to something entirely implausible — the state-of-the-art bullet train, now under construction. Somehow, we got along fine without a bullet train from Los Angeles to San Francisco. A maniacal pipe dream of Gov. Jerry Brown, its price tag was increased last week to $77.3 billion. The train’s projected opening date has been pushed back another four years, to 2033. ]

As the article says, this is considered an “investment” bt hot how long to recoup the cost?

Certainly there can be no graft, corruption, helping out old friends, etc. in involved in $77+ billion dollars.....

In other news, there's this amazing technological achievement called “the jet airplane” - of course, it burns fuel, so that's bad.

[Truthoverpower]

Marin County is the best
My town Fairfax is like Mayberry
But way more fun

[Fhios]

Nothing that a good DOJ audit/investigation wouldn’t solve. How much money you think was kicked back to California politicians?

No Federal dollars until and only if the there’s been an DOJ/SS investigation and audit from soup to nuts.

[Don Corleone]

Harbinger of the future America????

[goldstategop]

California did what Willie Green couldn’t do.

Sink the Bullet Train to nowhere.

A Taj Mahal white elephant monument to waste, inefficiency and gold-plated extravagance.

Talk about a boondoggle.

[Falconspeed]

Excellent essay. Fun to read. I live in So Cal, surf in Ventura and attend church in Santa Barbara. Everything is lovely and fine until you realized that the problems are not simply due to selfishness, greed and sloth. The problems are demonic. Jerry Brown was assisted by Jim Jones who was demonic. Democrats are assisted by Planned Parenthood. 'Nuff said. The solution is to pray and to beg the Lord for His power to destroy all sin and wickedness. Of course, the Lord is buy doing His job which makes Him to busy to be involved with local politics. I pity the numerous people who ignore the Lord with a lack of caution and ignore budget numbers with a lack of solicitude. They will be in for a reckoning on judgement day. These are the things I think about while surfing with the dolphins at the base of the mountains in the big waves of Ventura.

[goldstategop]

Liberalism killed CA.

The insanity is both disturbing and fun to watch.

I’m glad I left CA. Its gotten worse and worse and people seem to like it.

This is not the state that was home to Ronald Reagan.

Good riddance.

[Retvet]

JERY Brown THE Man that turned California into a cesspool. Literally.

[Donkey Odious]

SoCal born and raised. Played in the orange groves as a kid and had many friends who were late for school in the winter because they were up in the wee hours lighting smudge pots. Bought my “dream” house only to see the orange groves across the street ripped out within six months. That was 1977. Endured another ten years and then bailed. Been back to visit friends and relatives a few times but would never consider moving there again.

There are days that I miss it, though.

[dragnet2]

Ah, I don't live anywhere near SF..lol. In fact the part of CA I live in is very nice, thank you.☺

Btw, I have excellent perception and I see things in CA improving. And thanks to Trump era, it seems even the leftist in CA overplayed their hand in CA as well. CA liberalism is starting to backfire in their faces. Lots of people in CA are talking about it. Trump woke up the entire country and it seems the same is now happening in CA. That's the real current state of affairs in CA. ☺

[Preachin']

I blame the California voters, citizen or not.

[vette6387]

” Can you imagine how many fares it would take to recoup even a microscopic fraction of the expense? Even if passengers jump aboard and pack the roof like on the trains in Calcutta.”

Yeah, at 200 mph, that would be something to see! But not as bad as a seat on the wing of a jet!