Posted on 11/03/2010 6:13:01 AM PDT by kgrif_Salinas
While the country made a sharp turn to the right, giving the GOP the House in a landslide, CA has moved MORE to the LEFT, if thats possible. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown as the next Gov, with a Dem Assembly, AND Prop 25 passed, which only requires a simple majority to pass a budget. CA is doomed, and will soon fall into the Pacific. I predict CA bankruptcy before 2012. Truly a land of fruits and nuts.
“Having lived in Los Angeles during 1885-2005, I agree.”
So, VOA,,, What’s your secret to such longevity?
Please Californians do now follow me to VA, unless you learned a lesson living in a Blue State. Here in VA, they like to name things after Dead White Men Slave owners.
Currently, 1.6 million legal and illegal immigrants settle in the country each year; 350,000 immigrants leave each year, resulting in a net immigration of 1.25 million. Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased from 203 million to 309 million, i.e., over 100 million. In the next 40 years, the population will increase by 130 million to 439 million. Three-quarters of the increase in our population since 1970 and the projected increase will be the result of immigration. The U.S., the world’s third most populous nation, has the highest annual rate of population growth of any developed country in the world, i.e., 0.975 percent (2009 estimate), principally due to immigration.
“We will also see a lot more lefties move into California, so hey, they is some positive for you’all.”
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You may have just hit on a very good approach:
The liberalism move in California should be widely, and incessantly spoken of. California could be promoted (for widely different reasons) by both left and right, as a sort of mecca of socialism.
Every liberal in America will be in their promised land.
True, unfettered leftism on every street corner.
Let’s help liberals move here. Arrange a sort of huge, exchange program.
Liberals to California, Refugee conservatives take their place, wherever they came from. :)
1 for 1 trade.
Maybe our new Speaker of the House, could put together something, in the next Congress.
CT Freepers can all caravan to Alaska!
Should happen naturally. For every Lefty Kalifornian that is happy they are currently living in soon to be Mexican Kalifornia, there is a lefty in a state that just turned red that wishes they were living in Kalifornia. We can put the following inscription of Governor MoonBeams Statue of Tyranny, bring us your lefties that are tired or working and your lefties that are tired of hiding their marijuana use. Oops. Gonna have to scratch that last part. Our Mexican Drug Overlords make more money when the stuff is illegal.
Do Not come to Texas...You are not welcome...
Why would they...they have had their utopian wish fulfilled.
The Californian’s who have been living on other people’s money all their lives should know right now, in clear and uncertain terms, that the rest of the country is not going to bail them out. I will not pay to support California’s profligacy and mistakes. They’re on their own.
It’s (still) a free country, people can leave California.
I voted with my feet.
There will be no businesses left in CA. CA can apply for aid from Mexico.
How screwed up is this state? Moved here a little more than a year ago. Wife is an occasional substitute at a private elementary school in Carmel. Yesterday she had a 4th grade class. Wife reported that a young girl boasted of scamming her neighbors during trick-or-treat by telling them that she didn’t eat candy and would donate her stash to a children’s hospital. She received much more than otherwise, as one might expect. Turns out that she has no intention of donating anything to anyone - she loves candy. Wife tried to get her to see the error in her ways, to no use. Hard to imagine such guile in one so young, which raises a question: care to conjecture for which party this girl’s parents voted?
‘Move out of state.’ For me, this is not an option until the Lord nudges. What does it benefit the country if we all move to where it is ‘safe’ and there are more conservatives in those places? Sure, it would be terrific, personally, and refreshing. But wouldn’t we be abandoning the lib places to the libs? Is it an inevitable loss, and not worth the fight? Or is it worth fighting? Isn’t it just giving up? Am I called to safety?
Those things I don’t know. If we move, it will just be to Colorado to be with relatives, and there’s a huge cesspool of libs there on the east side. The fight is all around us. It is NOT heaven down here.
Three apologies not necessary :)).
I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this, but what’s seems to be forgotten is that Moonbeam’s LT. Gov is that San Fran wackadoo, Gavin Newsom.
There were many here supporting Fiorina and Whitman over more conservative candidates for “pragmatic” reasons; namely, they thought that you could run RINOs and win. Now they discover that they ran RINOs and have lost both the election and the opportunity to change the CA R party.
United States Representative District 11 Jerry McNerney (D) 82,124 (47.5%) -- -- David Harmer (R) 82,003 (47.5%) -- -- David Christensen (AI) 8,809 (5%) -- -- Precincts Reporting 613(100%) -- -- United States Representative District 20 Andy Vidak (R) 32,531 (51.5%) -- -- Jim Costa (D) 30,708 (48.5%) -- -- Precincts Reporting 564(100%) -- --
“we have to bail their dumb asses out eventually.”
We already are:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424....
Bond subsidies and transfers have allowed states to avoid making tough decisions. It won’t last.
The threat posed by the state fiscal crisis in the U.S. is vastly underestimated and under-appreciated—because even today too few people understand how states have been managing their finances.
A clear example of this took place in Manhattan last week at the Economist magazine’s Buttonwood Conference, where a panel role-played the federal government’s response to a near default of the hypothetical state of New Jefferson. After various deliberations and simulated threats from the Chinese government, the panel reluctantly voted to grant New Jefferson an emergency bailout of $1.5 billion to cover the state’s debt payment.
What this panel and so many other investors fail to appreciate is that state bailouts have already begun. Over 20% of California’s debt issuance during 2009 and over 30% of its debt issuance in 2010 to date has been subsidized by the federal government in a program known as Build America Bonds. Under the program, the U.S. Treasury covers 35% of the interest paid by the bonds. Arguably, without this program the interest cost of bonds for some states would have reached prohibitive levels.
BTW, most candidates lost because of turnout, IMO.
It looks like just fewer than 50% of registered voters cast a vote.
With all the hoopla since Arnold and his special elections, combined with the constant barrage of political advertising in this election,
I think some/much of the apathy was due to voter fatigue.
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