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California breakup plan would create rich and poor states: report

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Posted by Fred 2014-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 And it would give the Dems 10 more senators. Oh joy.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-14 00:28|| 2014-08-14 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not sure about that. I believe California is much like Washington where there are blue cities which are, in effect, driving the politics over the Red rural areas.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-08-14 01:41|| 2014-08-14 01:41|| Front Page Top

#3 It would formally relieve the wealthy in Silicon Valley from supporting all the poor folks, and you can bet that they'd pull their support in a New York minute...

True. However, it would also allow the poor folk to keep their water rights rather than forking them over for the rich people's lawns and pools. These 'rich' people can track the flow of money, but seem rather dense about the flow of water and electricity. Them poor folks are about to get as many Senators as them rich folks own.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-08-14 09:01|| 2014-08-14 09:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Think San Francisco and Los Angeles. That's where the donks are. And I'm thinking that when they don't have the rest of the state to help pay for their socialist policies they might start wishing they hadn't done this. You can talk about their per capita income all you want but unless you factor in the extremely high cost of housing in those areas you're not getting the true picture. And then you have the homeless who are actually subsidized in San Francisco...the panhandlers who pee and poop on the sidewalks. Hey, I'm ready to divorce San Francisco. Bring me the papers. I'll sign 'em. That way I won't have to feel like I'm responsible for the likes of Boxer, Feinstein and Pelosi. Spit.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-08-14 11:23|| 2014-08-14 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 There are some overpopulated blue counties and then there is the rest of the state.

I could be wrong but I suspect the pension crisis that is threatening California would hit the blue areas far worse than the rest.

I also suspect fraking which is the only way to save the state budget would be denied to the blue areas so they'd really have no way out of the financial bind.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-08-14 14:35|| 2014-08-14 14:35|| Front Page Top

#6 The real problem would be the water.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-08-14 14:36|| 2014-08-14 14:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Democrats balkanize everything with their inept ideology.

If they do this, I break my state into 60 states.

Idiots

Posted by newc 2014-08-14 16:29|| 2014-08-14 16:29|| Front Page Top

#8 The real problem would be the water.

Which is why it'll never happen in a nut shell. El Lay and the Fey Area will be committing suicide if they relinquished control of their extremely long distance lifelines.

Posted by Hupolush Grundy1293 2014-08-14 17:26|| 2014-08-14 17:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Do you suppose they think that far ahead?

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-08-14 20:02|| 2014-08-14 20:02|| Front Page Top

#10 I suggest Cali liberals put their money where their mouth is and divide into 7 states with Hamasylvania being the seventh. It only needs to be 28 miles long and 7 miles long to house all of Gaza residents. I suggest as close to San Fran or LA as possible.

Posted by Airandee 2014-08-14 20:23|| 2014-08-14 20:23|| Front Page Top

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