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2017-05-18 -Land of the Free

Jerry Brown: California Taxpayers are ‘Freeloaders'

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Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-18 09:41|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Your money isn't yours. Give it to the almighty government so they can spread it out to the illegals and welfare sucks.

California, if you don't overthrow these idiots, you get what you deserve.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-18 09:42|| 2017-05-18 09:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Doesn't Brown have this turned around?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-05-18 10:47|| 2017-05-18 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, governor. Smart people figure out that the best way to "make it" is to move to Texas.

Folks, this leaves me very conflicted. Look, California is NOT Detroit. For one thing, it doesn't freeze in the winter and the summers are not hot and humid. In fact, the weather here is better that anywhere else in the country. Really, no exaggeration, it is.

That said, there is more to a good quality of life than a constant temperature of 70 degrees.

But then, I can afford to live here even with Brown and his taxes. What bothers me the most is that I don't like being ripped off even if I can afford it. It's the principle. So do I leave a nice home in a nice neighborhood with comfortable weather that is unparalleled anywhere else in the country just because of the principle? I dunno.

I can certainly understand why people want to leave. I have a brother and a brother-in-law who can't wait to retire and move out of the state. When that happens they won't be paying Brown's taxes anymore. They can afford to pay but Brown offends them. Brown doesn't seem to understand that. There are a lot of dumbasses who don't understand. I will miss my brother and my smart brother-in-law. I'm afraid I'll be stuck with a lot of dumbasses. The more smart people who leave, the more dumbass politicians like Brown will get elected.

I dunno, maybe North Carolina...or South Carolina...hot humid summers, snow in the winters...I dunno.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-05-18 11:34|| 2017-05-18 11:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Abu, it's not all about weather. CA is full of shit birds. It reminds me of Saudi Arabia -- all the workers are imported, and the native princes and princesses lift nothing heavier than their egos.

Posted by regular joe 2017-05-18 12:02|| 2017-05-18 12:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Always looking for people of quality out here in west Kansas. Weather is so exciting, you won't have to go to the movies ever again. Get a little homestead, raise some critters.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-05-18 12:15|| 2017-05-18 12:15|| Front Page Top

#6 California,The Venezuela of the US West Coast.
"How does bankruptcy occur very slowly then all at once."

Posted by Jeasing Creque5352 2017-05-18 12:18|| 2017-05-18 12:18|| Front Page Top

#7 abu,

if you go to NC or SC you will be able to afford a mountain home (e.g., Highland, SC) for the summer and a coastal home for the winter. Downside is it can rain really really hard for days at a time.

Posted by lord garth 2017-05-18 12:19|| 2017-05-18 12:19|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 abu,

if you go to NC or SC you will be able to afford a mountain home (e.g., Highland, SC) for the summer and a coastal home for the winter. Downside is it can rain really really hard for days at a time.
Posted by: lord garth 2017-05-18 12:19

Preach it, Lord Garth. I'm an Ohioan by birth, but when the USAF dropped me off here 19 years ago I never had a second's hesitation in deciding to stay. Noplace else in the country you can do so well on comaparatively little money.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-05-18 12:36|| 2017-05-18 12:36|| Front Page Top

#9 "the native princes and princesses lift nothing heavier than their egos."

You hit it on the head! great quote

Posted by 746 2017-05-18 12:58|| 2017-05-18 12:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Abu, I am exactly in the same boat. I live in a lovely foothill community east of Sacramento, and its great, quality of life and climate is near perfect, but its a bubble, like the one my kids live in down in Newport Beach/Huntington Beach. Much of the state is descending into Guatemala quality of life and appearance. The central valley is like visiting a foreign country if you get off the freeway. We are looking at Aiken SC and Nampa ID but hate the weather.....like the frog in the pot, I can tel its getting warmer but seem stuck!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-05-18 15:12|| 2017-05-18 15:12|| Front Page Top

#11 East Tennessee is very nice. And there is NASCAR at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-05-18 16:10|| 2017-05-18 16:10|| Front Page Top

#12 When California implodes, all hell will break loose. And you will be as defenseless as a deer in headlights. Period.

Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-05-18 16:30|| 2017-05-18 16:30|| Front Page Top

#13 And there is NASCAR at Bristol Motor Speedway.

For whatever reason, I cannot stand short-track racing. My home state of New Hampshire has the most boring track at Loudon (a lot of 1 mile tracks aren't much better), which explains why they're dropping the fall race (lost to Las Vegas) in a few years.

They should add two more road courses in order to try and stem the fan losses. Add Mid-Ohio or Road America, but definitely add Gilles Villenuve in Montreal _ I think I like it better than Watkins Glen, site of Marcos Ambrose's only Sprint Cup win.

I cannot stand this 'stage race' bullshit - I turned off Daytona as the first one approached and I could barely watch Talladega, probably because my decision to drink early made it more palatable. I'm so close to boycotting the sport over that crap, but they keep pulling me back in!

No, I'm not trying to hijack this thread - why do you ask?

Posted by Raj 2017-05-18 18:10|| 2017-05-18 18:10|| Front Page Top

#14 WRT the weather: you're never too old to make snowmen.

Posted by james 2017-05-18 18:24|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2017-05-18 18:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Rural northern Nevada my friend. The weather is often surprisingly good, you can wear a sidearm, land is cheap, and nobody - not white, Mexican, or native - think Califoria is paradise. Cause we've all been there.

Posted by Secret Master 2017-05-18 21:49|| 2017-05-18 21:49|| Front Page Top

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