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2009-06-30 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve White 2009-06-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Time to issue the politicians IOU instead of votes and paychecks.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-06-30 00:31|| 2009-06-30 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Will people have to pay taxes on the IOU's -- in cash?

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-06-30 00:46|| 2009-06-30 00:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Print all the cash you need, Oblahblahblah's doing it.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-06-30 00:59|| 2009-06-30 00:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Will California ex-pats all over the western states finally stop with the "we're so much better and smarter in the Golden State than you idiotic peasants" crap?

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-06-30 08:00|| 2009-06-30 08:00|| Front Page Top

#5 One can read opinions of Californians moving to other states and bringing their ruinous politics with them. These Californians who spread their disastrous liberal politics to their new states are being compared to a Biblical plague of locusts.

Posted by Lagom 2009-06-30 10:04|| 2009-06-30 10:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Lagom is right. I live in the Land of the Locusts. Locally, we have 15% unemployment and due to our progressive politics, our future looks ever downward.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-06-30 11:11|| 2009-06-30 11:11|| Front Page Top

#7 One can read opinions of Californians moving to other states and bringing their ruinous politics with them.

Same thing that's happening to NH with the influx of so many Massholes.

Posted by xbalanke 2009-06-30 13:05|| 2009-06-30 13:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Will California ex-pats all over the western states finally stop with the "we're so much better and smarter in the Golden State than you idiotic peasants" crap?

Yes, Blondie. I've learned humility. But, OTOH, and as I've said before, a whole lot of your so called "California ex-pats" were not born in California. The ones who are natives are probably fleeing the over crowding because people have been flooding into this state from all over the U.S. and from all over the whole, wide world. Yes, we ruined this state but we had a lot of help. There are millions of current California residents who speak with New York and New Jersey accents. There are millions more who speak with Mexican, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese and English accents. Yes, we are the New Yorkers of the West but a lot of us were actually born in New York. Believe it or not, there are a whole helluva lot of transplanted mid-westerners living here. They came from places like Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, Michigan and Texas. I myself was a Navy brat whose father was stationed here in 1954. Maybe you could just call me an American. There used to be a saying about someone tilting the United States on one end so that all the loose fruits and nuts rolled into California. So don't blame me if some of us are rolling back in your direction.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-06-30 14:07|| 2009-06-30 14:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Mirroring the above, I've been in California since 1976, originally from DC. It was paradise when the USMC first put me here, and I've watched it peak and settle in the ooze of overcrowding and fiscal imprudence. The state is now run by people who haven't a clue about how to govern, only how to buy votes through bread and circus tactics. They keep bringing foreign born here, (currently over 25% of the people in California were born in a foreign country) to stack the political deck for more of the same. The exfiltration of the actual economic producers (business, people of means, retirees) is ongoing and increasing. Now the water crisis brought to us by the Endanged Species Act has destroyed central valley agriculture, further weakening tax revenue. SO what do the idiots do here in Sacramento, fight to raise more taxes, further speeding the bleedout, with not a clue that they are circling the drain with the state.
Tragic end of the slippery slope of inattention we all ignored while we trusted the elected ones to do our business, and the schools to actually educate our kids, and frankly, the slide is beyond repair. Tragic and sad....
feels like Rome circa 410 AD....

Posted by NoMoreBS">NoMoreBS 2009-06-30 19:46|| 2009-06-30 19:46|| Front Page Top

#10 **ahem**

California native ('59). I believe more of our residents came from your other states (and Mexico) than are native-born. Ergo: kiss my ass.

I've voted against every whackjob proposition and state candidate outside my San Diego County residence (and those within). My representatives to DC (Duncan Hunter, Duncan Duane Hunter, USMC) and CA (various, but Rep., Conservative) have nothing to apologize for. I STRONGLY object to your slurs and would note that I am not alone. You have a LARGE military presence (especially in my county), are they all drooling socialist morons? Knee-jerk labels are fun, but I'll kick your ass if we meet in a bar and you question my patriotism

/end rant, dammit

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-06-30 21:14|| 2009-06-30 21:14|| Front Page Top

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