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| California Becoming a Feudal Society |
| 2013-03-03 |
| California is rapidly becoming a near-feudal society. On one side is an older, educated, landed, wealthy elite that lives on California's beautiful coasts. Then there is a much larger, younger, less-educated, indebted mass living inland, many of them working farm jobs at subsistence wages. The good news is that both of these groups seem content supporting a Democratic Party whose policies (which I outlined in the series last week) reinforce these trends. And if any of the current Californians don't like what the new California has become, they are free to leave. The bad news is that millions of middle-class families already have, and the trend is likely to continue. |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #13 ...ah, the Fighting Banana Slugs of UCSC. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-03-03 22:55 |
| #12 JosephM, when my sister was a grad student in Santa Cruz, CA, the only thing she found to rent was a furnished camper in her landlady's backyard. She paid considerably less for a spacious apartment in the funky part of Buffalo, NY when she got a post-doc job at the research institute. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-03-03 19:29 |
| #11 I've read or heard Personages on the MSM-Net claim that one has to be a Milyuhn-naire just to move or even think about moving to California??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-03-03 18:56 |
| #10 Who says he's still not planning to leave? Just because you THINK he's browbeaten into submission doesn't mean he is. |
| Posted by: Charles 2013-03-03 18:44 |
| #9 Sort of like the old Baltimore Colts, SAM? Exactly! These celebs are so accustomed to being in the public eye, they lose sight of when to keep their shut. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2013-03-03 16:51 |
| #8 Sort of like the old Baltimore Colts, SAM? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-03-03 16:02 |
| #7 Just recently a major golf pro talked about leaving and was browbeat into retracting his articulated intent. Lesson: Keep mouth shut, settle affairs quietly and sneak out under cover of darkness. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2013-03-03 14:57 |
| #6 Only people left will be illegals, government employees and a few Hollywood/Silicon Valley billionaires. Even your run of the mill millionaire is having trouble getting by in CA these days. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2013-03-03 12:30 |
| #5 "becoming"? |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-03-03 12:06 |
| #4 Ahhhh yes, but remember: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. - Voltaire |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-03-03 11:45 |
| #3 Just recently a major golf pro talked about leaving and was browbeat into retracting his articulated intent. Tying freemen to the land is one of the first steps to a feudal society along with serfdom. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-03-03 11:37 |
| #2 The plan is working. You'll know when plan is about complete when the gentry start wearing togas and feeding Christians to the Sea Otters. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2013-03-03 10:39 |
| #1 but the startling news is that Democrats in CA will soon begin constructing a castle, a drawbridge and a moat in Sacramento .... in order to keep out the unruly serfs living in the new feudal sociey. :-) |
| Posted by: Raider 2013-03-03 09:39 |