lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Perhaps we need a revolution to overturn the Trump fiasco, I mean, Trump administration. If talking non stop while saying very little of substance, whining, blaming, telling someone else to do something, and cluelessness, were the means to good governance - Trump would be my top choice.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Might be monitoring morons. Hurry run to your safe space snowflake.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Using those examples, you'd make a good governor.

Weasel Loc: In the Great State Of Indiana!!

HERE HERE!
IT'S Not a bitter pill to swallow. And the outcome would be amazing. Just do it!

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Please don't send anymore to CA. Sacramento is already dominated by Democrats and Governor Moonbeam.

https://spectator.org/has-bullet-train-been-hoisted-on-its-own-petard/


Hanson: Is California finally reaching the breaking point?

By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

August 10, 2017

Corporate profits at California-based transnational corporations such as Apple, Facebook and Google are hitting record highs.

California housing prices from La Jolla to Berkeley along the Pacific Coast can top $1,000 a square foot.

It seems as if all of China is willing to pay premium prices to get their children degreed at Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA or USC.

Yet California — after raising its top income tax rate to 13.3 percent and receiving record revenues — is still facing a budget deficit of more than $1 billion. There is a much more foreboding state crisis of unfunded liabilities and pension obligations of nearly $1 trillion.

Soon, new gas tax hikes, on top of green mandates, might make California gas the most expensive in the nation, despite the state’s huge reserves of untapped oil.

Where does the money go, given that the state’s schools and infrastructure rank among America’s worst in national surveys?

Illegal immigration over the last 30 years, the exodus of millions of middle-class Californians, and huge wealth concentrated in the L.A. basin and Silicon Valley have turned the state into a medieval manor of knights and peasants, with ever fewer in between.

The strapped middle class continues to flee bad schools, high taxes, rampant crime and poor state services. About one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients reside in California. Approximately one-fifth of the state lives below the poverty line. More than a quarter of Californians were not born in the United States.

Many of the state’s wealthiest residents support high taxes, no-growth green policies and subsidies for the poor. They do so because they reside in apartheid neighborhoods and have the material and political wherewithal to become exempt from the consequences of their own utopian bromides.

Blue California has no two-party politics anymore. Its campuses, from Berkeley to Claremont, have proven among the most hostile to free speech in the nation.

A few things keep California going. Its natural bounty, beauty and weather draw in people eager to play California roulette. The state is naturally rich in minerals, oil and natural gas, timber and farmland. The world pays dearly for whatever techies based in California’s universities can dream up.

That said, the status quo is failing.

The skeletons of half-built bridges and overpasses for a $100 billion high-speed-rail dinosaur remind residents of the ongoing boondoggle. Meantime, outdated roads and highways — mostly unchanged from the 1960s — make driving for 40 million both slow and dangerous. Each mile of track for high-speed rail represents millions of dollars that were not spent on repairing and expanding stretches of the state’s decrepit freeways — and hundreds of lives needlessly lost each year.

The future of state transportation is not updated versions of 19th-century ideas of railways and locomotives, but instead will include electric-powered and automatically piloted cars — all impossible without good roads.

Less than 40 percent of California residents identify themselves as conservative. But red-county California represents some 75 percent of California’s geographical area. It’s as if large, rural Mississippi and tiny urban Massachusetts were one combined state — all ruled by liberal Boston.

Now, a third of the state thinks it can pull off a “Calexit” and leave the United States.

Calexit proponents assume California can leave the union without an authorizing amendment to the Constitution, ratified by three-fourths of all the states. And they fail to see that should California ever secede, it would immediately split in two. The coastal strip would go the way of secessionist Virginia. The other three-quarters of the state’s geography would remain loyal to the union and become a new version of loyalist West Virginia.

Buying a home on the California coast is nearly impossible. The state budget can only be balanced through constant tax hikes. Finding a good, safe public school is difficult. Building a single new dam during the California drought to capture record runoff water in subsequent wet years proved politically impossible.

No matter. Many Californians consider those existential problems to be a premodern drag, while they dream of postmodern trains, the legalization of pot-growing — and seceding from the United States of America.

cold iron Loc: White House

So true, been their done that. I owned a auto service company in So. Cal for many years, The state fools decided to tax waste oil! If you change oil in a car, they called you a "Toxic Waste Generator" you had to buy a license every year, which went up every year, and the worst part was the people that would buy your waste oil now wanted to be paid to take it away. On top of that, if some how any thing other then oil was in your waste oil they would not take it, you had to hire a TOXIC HAULER to take it away at a huge cost. But the not so smart state fools never though of was people that had lots of waste oil just took it out to the desert and dump it, 5000 gallons at a time. lol, well after a year or so that law went away fast. Yes indeed, the left have very small logic.

pafret Loc: Northeast

Before requesting plans of action one needs to consider the laws against conspiracy to overthrow the government. Political activism, campaignig and advertising, in selected areas, to have your candidate installed, are all acceptable. Calling for armed insurrecion is a no-no.

pafret Loc: Northeast

Quite true, but it was undoubtedly viscerally satisfying to watch the heads, of the oppressive 'elites', thump into the baskets. Citizeness Du'Farge, where are you? History is calling!

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

I wouldn't bet my ass on anything that comes out of your mouth or word processor. The people are in no mood for another Democommie. They're beginning to see behind the deceptions & half-truths and tyrannical goals of people like George 'the Collaborator) Soros.

Chocura750

I have a niece who says she is a Christian and that as such she is suffering persecution in the United States. Any Christian who believes that he or she is being persecuted in the US in my opinion is hyper sensitive and not realistic. Likewise for anyone who believes the US is remotely like Russia under the Tsars.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Since you are not a Christian how would you know? Go kick a statue, you'll feel better.

Nickolai

Ho hum, yawn!!

Nickolai

What are you looking for a bunch of jackbooted thugs marching with a stiff arm chanting zieg heil, zeig heil !!!!

Nickolai

California has more hate white nationalist groups than any other state, 16 more in fact and growing. Come on in and sit a spell

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Hope they visit you soon.