Posted on 08/16/2012 3:46:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
California needs to be fixed. They are the 8th largest World Economy. America cannot afford to let California die. We obviously can’t afford to let them go down the road they are on. Something drastic has to be done....what is that? I wish I knew. But the bottom line is, We cannot allow them to fail!!!!
That man has talent for putting things into perspective...
The fiscally sane states will end up bailing the rat-run bankrupt states.
When the power grid fails or rotating power outages of significant length become the norm and when the available power is ten times more expensive than today, how long will the veneer of California civilization remain?
The fiscally sane states will end up bailing the rat-run bankrupt states.
Yep. But the reason will be because there is no other option. If we let them fail then the country will fail.
>> California needs to be fixed. They are the 8th largest World Economy. America cannot afford to let California die.
That’s the right kind of attitude!
‘’’ But the bottom line is, We cannot allow them to fail!!!!
Why not? Too big to fail? :)
Sums it up well for CA and Greece.
http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2012/03/15/whos_to_blame_for_california
Yep. But the reason will be because there is no other option. If we let them fail then the country will fail.
Methinks one of the earlier Federalist papers (#6 or #8) has something to say about this. Will return to it tonight.
Cheers!
Unfortunately it seems that the only way for a politician to learn anything is for him to personally fail - big time.
California's problems didn't just spring from the earth overnight. It has been building for the last 20 - 30 years that I know about. If I can see it from Florida after being stationed in California for four years it must be very obvious.
Yes, California's crash will be very painful for me at many levels. But, I see no tectonic shifts in California's direction at any time without it.
Have you ever considered that as California goes so go the rest of us?
While this not the sole reason for CA's demise it is the overwhelming reason. It is also what is facing the US at large. Unless this can be addressed and rectified CA will continue to languish and deconstruct. As mentioned CA going down is no small matter it will effect us all.
-——We cannot allow them to fail!!!!-——
Though I certainly do not want to see them fail, we are the “United States of America “ 50 sovereign states ....if they are failing “they” need to fix themselves ....
By bailing them out we only enable them to continue to fail....
When the libtards in CA do not have electricity or can no longer buy food, maybe their brains might actually engage ....
Never heard that Rhode Island is too small to fail....
And they blame it on conservatives.
We MUST allow them to fail.
That is the only way to fix California.
Tragic read. Especially coming from Victor, who has witnessed and accurately described the decline and dichotomy of his home state.
This is what they’ll do to the rest of the country if we let them.
Why not? Seems to me that allowing california to wallow in the pig sty that it is making of itself would be the absolute best thing for the country.
A lot of liberals need to learn about the real world. And living in the third world hell hole they are making of themselves would do it I think.
The only redeeming qualities I've seen from California in a long time are the presence there of Freerepublic (which could be moved to a more sane state), The navy base in San Diego and a couple of air bases. The navy base can't be moved, but everything else could be (and should be moved to lower cost sane states)
There is little America can do for California. The saying goes this way: the first generation earns the money, the second generation manages to keep it, and the third generation spends it all. California is in the fourth generation now. The money's been spent, but the lifestyle goes on. This is happening where I live, Illinois.
All the wealth built up in a low/no-tax and low/no-regulation environment has been eaten up. The principle is gone, but America didn't do that. You and I didn't vote these policies. The Welfare State is the utopian dream of the rich and ignorant (not necessarily the same).
What can America do to reign in the policies implemented at the state and local level in California? What policy should we put in place? You're right that California is critical to America, but you have now generations of people trained not to work. They've never had to strive for anything, so they don't know how. Everything has been given to them. To run against that is to lose election after election.
Here's my proposed solution. Add ten states to the union. Take the top ten urban counties and make them their own states with the remainder of the existing counties remaining as their own state. In this way you could unburden the suburbs and countryside and allow them to thrive outside the undo influence of city liberals. What do you think?
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves. - Andrew Carnegie
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