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2009-09-30 Economy

"California's experiment with ultra-progressive politics has gone terribly wrong."

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-09-30 13:42|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 "Once the Plebians discovered that they could vote themselves bread and circuses, the Republic was doomed."

Always scribble, scribble, scribble - eh, Mr. Gibbon?

Posted by mojo 2009-09-30 14:49|| 2009-09-30 14:49|| Front Page Top

#2 The thing is that because rational people flee extortion, the state concentrates the beneficiaries of extortion as the sensible emigrate and covers the loss of the productive with debt, until it all collapses.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-09-30 16:18|| 2009-09-30 16:18|| Front Page Top

#3 My goodness, the decline is even worse than the statistics would suggest. Agriculture has been decimated in the central valley by insane enviro's, gas costs an extra 50/gallon for our "special" blend, and every part of the infrastructure is falling apart. Schools cost near the top and produce at the bottom, and the LA basis is Mexico City with a few Americans left, struggling with the other minority immigrants for what is left of public services.
People who are net donors to the system are bailing as soon as they can.....we have truly screwed up paradise by electing democrats for decades..

Posted by NoMoreBS 2009-09-30 19:09|| 2009-09-30 19:09|| Front Page Top

#4 CNN this AM > WOLF BLITZER GUESTS PANEL [segments] = OBAMA ADMIN is engaging in a DECISIVE TRANSFORMATION OF THE USA.

BLITZER BLITZMAIL > alleges that the reaction of the FAR RIGHT in the Govt-US to POTUS BAMMER'S HEALTHCARE PROPOSAL is akin to the atmosphere in ISRAEL JUST BEFORE PM YITZHAK RABIN WAS ASSASSINATED????

Uh, uh, IIUC "YITZHAK OBAMA" the [Left]MARTYR???

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-09-30 19:34|| na]">[na] 2009-09-30 19:34|| Front Page Top

#5 "You don't have to be a genius, or a conservative, to recognize that California's experiment with ultra-progressive politics has gone ~~terribly wrong~~ the way anyone with half a brain cell would expect it to go."

Fixed.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-30 23:23|| 2009-09-30 23:23|| Front Page Top

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