Posted on 05/26/2013 9:48:42 AM PDT by blam
Edited on 05/26/2013 12:50:43 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
How Jerry Brown Saved California
James Fallows, The Atlantic
May 26, 2013, 8:05 AM
THE CALIFORNIAN
One Friday morning this spring, I drove to Washington’s Dulles airport at dawn, to catch the first nonstop flight to San Francisco. When I got off the plane six hours later, the morning sun still slanting through the terminal windows, my cellphone began ringing practically as soon as I turned it on.
“Okay, you’re here!” the man on the other end of the call said, cheerily. I’d been trying to arrange a visit to his office for quite a while, and just the previous evening he’d let me know that if I got there in a hurry, he’d have time to talk the next day, as well as over the weekend. As I walked through the airport, he began reeling off turn-by-turn instructions for reaching his office in Oakland in my rental car. “You’ll take the Bay Bridge to the exit for the 580 East and the 24. But don’t go all the way to the 24! That would send you out to Concord. Take the 980 West until the exit for 27th Street, and then …”
It was like a moment from a Saturday Night Live sketch of “The Californians”—which seemed appropriate, since the man I was talking with was the Californian, Jerry Brown. Brown began his first two terms as governor in 1974, at age 36, following one Republican former actor, Ronald Reagan.
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Excerpt, read more at The Atlantic
Just the title has me laughing hysterically.
WHY ?
Brown saved California? Seriously? He’s presiding over the demise of a once great state.
Northern Californians do not say "the" before the freeway or highway number. So, obviously, Jerry Brown is a southern Californian. That explains stuff...
So this clown is impressed because he got instructions about driving through a sh*thole called Oakland? The entire article is full of crap. Raising taxes ten-fold is not “saving”...
He’s is actually the one who DESTROYED IT.
So the Illegal Aliens can have a smooth transition.
How the rising stock market is saving California would be a better title...until the stock market bubble collapses and uncovers that nothing’s changed in California.
>> Back then I got bored because we didn’t have big problems. Now I am very enthusiastic. Everything’s interesting, and it’s complicated. There is a zest!” <<
Yeah, while you are loving the terrible problems that you and your kind in the legislature created, many of us have been forced from the home of our birth, which we loved and miss to some degree.
I don’t dare say what I wish would happen to you governor moonbeamX2! Let us just say I wish you personally felt the effects of the disastrous liberal rule!
Fiction writer goes MoonBeam crazy
Yes, me too
That made me wonder about how true that story was. You’re right, it’s a point of pride with the NorCals not to use “the” before giving the freeway number and most of Moonbeam’s life has been in Sacto or the Bay Area.
We SoCals do not understand why some NorCals use “I” when descrbing a fwy like the 80. “I” acknowledges that states other than CA exist.
Really? I thought was the rule up and down the West Coast.
The only time it bothered me was in an epi of The X-Files. Mulder, the character being from MA, an Eli, and living in DC, says "...the 95". THE Beltway, yes, but nobody I've ever known refers to I-95 as "the 95".
But I digress. The article is from "The Atlantic". Of course, the author is going to praise "The" Moonbeam.
My favorite Brown political cartoon is from around 1980. He's trying to cram his autobiography "How I whipped the Medfly", into a shelf filled with the likes of Churchill, MacArthur, Ceaser, etc.
I don’t know that it’s a point of pride to not say “the” before the freeway number. I just know that it’s irritating to see or hear that usage, much like the British convention of “going to hospital” is annoying because they leave out “the.”
And... um... states other than CA *do* exist. I may be SoCal born and NoCal raised, but here I am, living on the east coast. MD is probably *not* an improvement over CA liberalism.
The article wants to hand out praise, simply because the Federal Reserve and the US Federal Gov’t massive printing of dollars and debt accumulation has for the time being kept the status-quo system on life-support.
Hurray.
When I read the title, I immediately thought of the line from “Legally Blonde”:
Am I on glue?
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