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2009-12-11 Economy

UCLA predicts grim outlook for California economy

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Posted by Fred 2009-12-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 California sits on the Pacific Rim and we're the locust of imports and manufactured consumer goods from Asia...

Locust?

Posted by AzCat 2009-12-11 00:07|| 2009-12-11 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 we're the locust of imports

Dammit, Jim! I'm a senior economist, not an etymologist.

Posted by SteveS 2009-12-11 00:45|| 2009-12-11 00:45|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd have thought that "stagnant for the next two years" was a fairly rosy forecast under the circumstances.
"Locust" is certainly an evocative description of California.

Posted by James">James 2009-12-11 02:25|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2009-12-11 02:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Locust, a malapropism, heh.

She said, "I love you," with a voice full of emulsion.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-12-11 07:37|| 2009-12-11 07:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps Mr. Nickelsburg was referring to the CA government and the legions of freeloaders it supports.

Posted by ed 2009-12-11 08:04|| 2009-12-11 08:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Dont you wish you lived in California>

Somewhere between Brawley and El Centro with a good view of the Mohave. And an old car in the yard and a clothes line out back. My childhood memories.

My mother let me play in the Irrigation canals in my underwear. And the friendly big birds used to land and look at me. Big birds.

Posted by Angleton9 2009-12-11 08:31|| 2009-12-11 08:31|| Front Page Top

#7 I used to live in a distant dirt-road suburb, back up against the Angeles National Forest, with a view of mountains, and a horse in our backyard. We used to hike through the chaparral and listen to coyotes howling way down in the canyon.
Used to be a nice place, California. Pity.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2009-12-11 08:58|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2009-12-11 08:58|| Front Page Top

#8 ....but you didn't splash around in the canal in your undies did you?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-11 08:59|| 2009-12-11 08:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Liberals took over there years ago when it was the Golden State. They assaulted private enterprise and heavy business regulation. IF they are ever put out of business when California is looking like a third world cesspool, they will still go out kicking and screaming because they will be too stupid to know what they did. That is how dumb and deranged liberals are.

Posted by Chunky Phaving7818 2009-12-11 11:37|| 2009-12-11 11:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Doesn't take a genius to make that prediction.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-12-11 11:56|| 2009-12-11 11:56|| Front Page Top

#11 I've been known to splash around in the Pacific Ocean in my undies. But my mom didn't know about it.

Well, we've been overwhelmed by illegal immigration, raped by developers and mismanaged by the worst frickin' bunch of crooked politicians you could ever imagine. Our schools are a joke and our hospital ERs look like the Third World. I've been telling Mrs. Uluque for several years now that we need to get the hell outta here but it's hard for her to let go.

Then you get morons like this guy Nickelsbug who laments the fact that Americans aren't buying enough plastic crap from China anymore. Excuse me but I see that as a good thing. Maybe if we get desperate enough we'll learn how to make things here again.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-12-11 13:37|| 2009-12-11 13:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, I haven likened Californians to locusts - they move into a state in large numbers and bring their destructive politics with them, eventually stripping the land and destroying it.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-12-11 11:49|| 2009-12-11 11:49|| Front Page Top

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