I was born and raised in California Mr. Flipper and saw this coming decades ago. I hope for the sake of my beloved California he can but I don't see how. It is a failed socialist experiment. The only difference between California and the Feds is they can't print money...
How did you vote this year?
by sooner7nc 39 Replies latest social humour
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BurnTheShips
California: The Lindsay Lohan of States
Sacramento is headed for trouble again, and it shouldn't expect a bailout.
Listen up, California. The other 48 states—your cousin New York excluded—are sick of your bratty arrogance. You're the Lindsay Lohan of states: a prima donna who once showed some talent but is now too wasted to do anything with it.
After enjoying ephemeral highs and spending binges, you suffer crashes that culminate in brief, unsuccessful stints in rehab. This cycle repeats itself every five to 10 years, as the rest of the country looks on with a mixture of horror and amusement. We'd feel sorry for you if you didn't constantly flip us the bird.
Instead, we're making bets on how long it will be before your next meltdown. Oh, wait—you're already melting down.
You've racked up nearly $70 billion in general obligation debt, and that doesn't include your $500 billion unfunded pension liability. Your own analysts predict you'll face a hole of at least $80 billion over the next four years.
Your government's run by a brothel of environmentalists, lawyers, public-sector unions and legislative bums. When they're not taxing or spending, they're creating regulations and commissions like the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology and the California Blueberry Commission. Many businesses would leave if it weren't for your sunny climate.
Which may explain why you're so obsessed with climate change. If your climate changes, no one, including your Hollywood friends, would tolerate you anymore. So you've created a law to tax carbon emissions—no matter that it will kill jobs.
It's not as if you don't recognize that you've got problems. Roughly three-quarters of you say you're headed in the wrong direction, according to a recent survey by the Public Policy Institute of California. You're even more depressed than Illinois and New York, and you've got sunshine 10 months of the year!
You appropriately give your government low marks—28% approval for outgoing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 16% for the legislature—yet you continue to re-elect the politicians who got you into this mess. Not a single incumbent state legislator lost re-election this year, including one Democrat who died a month ago (no joke). What's scarier is that you've just given almost all of the keys to statewide offices to Democrats.
Jerry Brown will be your new (old) governor. This is the man who acted as a gateway drug to your spending addiction three decades ago when he gave public-sector employees collective bargaining rights. Helping enforce your wacky laws will be Lt. Gov-elect Gavin Newsom, the San Francisco mayor who flouted state law by allowing same-sex marriage. On the plus side, he has nice hair and loves you just the way you are. This is what he had to say after winning his race:
"We're nothing but a mirror of our consistent thoughts. You tend to manifest what you focus on. If you look around for what's wrong, you'll find it. But as all we know up here in San Francisco, when you focus on what's right, you see it all around you. . . . There is absolutely nothing wrong with California that can't be fixed by what's right with California. . . . If you're from another state, you'd love to have the problems of California."
You've also just re-elected Barbara Boxer (that's Senator Barbara Boxer) to a fourth term. She boasted on election night that it's her "eleventh straight election victory, and what a sweet one it is . . . [since] everything was thrown at us, including the kitchen sink, and the stove and the oven and everything, millions of dollars of negative ads from known and unknown opponents, millions and millions of dollars."
We've tried to help you, California. Some spent millions on campaigns to entice you to change your reckless behavior. And you told them to kick rocks.
So here's our final warning: When you inevitably crash and burn, don't count on us to bail you out.
PS:
I voted for legalization of marijuana - however it went down in flames
What happened, the pro crowd too stoned to be able to understand the ballot?
I'd be tokin' hard if I was over there too. You guys are phukt, and you just dug yourselves in deeper.
So sorry to harsh your mellow.
Hey! I live in Florida, don't ask me to bail your dumbasses out. You're, like, on your own, dude.
California, national punchline. This crap is going to be interesting to watch as it goes down.
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flipper
ZERODAY- The one huge challenge Brown will face is the a-hole legislators in Sacramento who keep making our budget late each year. A initiave was passed recently I believe that will take some of the legislators pay away if they cause too much delays in getting the budget to not pass on time. Gotta hurt them in the pocketbook before they see the seriousness of it
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chickpea
always been a pick and choose voter....
i am a little left of center... and will
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designs
A mostly Democratic ticket but some pick and chose, some conservatives were simply better at governance locally, and I wasn't ready to legalize Pot, not yet, some more thorough safety factors need to be in place although I hear you can buy it about as easily as cigarettes.
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Gregor
I voted for George Fisher for mayor. He won.
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Mad Dawg
Mostly on the Conservative Party line. It amazes me that the people on the Left Coast are in deep financial doo-doo, and they re-elect the same bunch that got them there in the first place. Get a clue folks, the experiment failed and the teats are dry.
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FlyingHighNow
I voted a straight democratic ticket. I didn't vote on the judges. Didn't know enough about them.
I too vote against plutocracy.
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designs
Mad D- Here on the Left Coast we have a Real Estate melt down that hasn't hit the final leg down yet, maybe next year, Greenspan and company manuvered the largest transfer of wealth from the middle wage earners in recent history, worse than the Savings and Loan scandel of the 80's under Reagan. It will take 5-7 years to see the turn around so State revenues will be lean for quite some time. Our Left politicians are on the hook just like the Republicans. We are floating short term muni bonds to stay afloat. What may happen in the next 5 years is the State version of a bankruptcy, both political parties secrectly want this since it will cause all of the State obligated contracts, retirement contracts included, to be readjusted like we saw with GM.