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They want it; they like it; let them choke on it.
When are the Useful Idiots going to ban Reverse Discrimination?
Good question but, first the useful idiots have to come to the realization they have a problem. I don’t think this is going to happen anytime soon. My guess is the realization will take place when they hear the double click of the hammer being pulled back. Then it will be “problem solved”.
https://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/large-number-of-deported-child-rapists-apprehended-in-march/
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60025
My guess is that most people currently living in California still think it is the best, coolest place to be.
California readers of TBP please speak up.
No, I never thought that. I was born and raised here, married and raised a family here. The little traveling I have done left me wanting to move, but the job situation ( I have a really good job that couldn’t easily be replaced) and family situation (kids and grandkids are here, thus my wife would never leave them behind) make it improbable that I’d move.
Now if one or the other of the kids moved out of state that could become a possibility depending on where he/she ended up.
California has many great and growing problems and I don’t see the current crop of clowns in charge ever facing the reality of trying to honestly fix them. They’ll continue down the same road of welcoming ever more dependent immigrants while continuing to stifle construction and infrastructure improvements.
All this will continue while the public pension tsunami grows ever closer and the wealthy top 1% that provide over 50% of state revenues gather their stuff and get the hell out. The few producers left will be taxed, fee’d and dunned to death.
Not sure if I’ll be alive to see the final crash. Fate can be a hoot.
Paul,
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I lived in the Bay Area in mid 80’s, and had a great life there.
Still have family in the Sacramento area, but unfortunately rarely see them. I don’t have much desire to travel there, even though I know it’s still mostly a beautiful place.
I lived in Bakersfield (deep in the Uncool part of CA, Buck Owens was a local celebrity) for a few years around 1987 – 1990. It wasn’t too bad, although the summers could do 30 days above 100 F and the black widow spiders could make 3″ legspans. We certainly survived; had a small house in a suburb, rode a motorcycle to work and played racquetball with friends before work. Nice folks, decent area, kids too young for school.
About 1990 they had a bunch of bonds up for election approval; some $1.6 B worth, IIRC. Everything from shave the whales to hug the trees to grease the wheels and then some. There are 58 counties in CA; only four voted in favor of these bonds (Sacramento, S.F., L.A. and S.Diego). They passed.
I saw the handwriting on the wall then, and found a job elsewhere. Sold the small house for a tidy profit, an investor was buying them up. Left and never looked back; there were some good times, but I could see CA was doomed back then, just a matter of time.
Saturday newspapers were nearly all the same; so many Mexicans went to a bar, argued about something, pulled knives on each other and made fewer Mexicans. Over and over and over again, four years that I was there. It was amazing that the population grew, it happened so often.
Heard a noise, grabbed my toddler girl and hoisted her up on my shoulders to look over the back fence. Basque sheepherders were driving a flock up the railroad tracks, half a mile of sheep. It took them about ten or fifteen minutes to pass, wherever they were going that day. Never thought I’d see that in a medium-sized city, but trains only ran about two days a week on that line, usually about noon.Wonder if they still do that, in California the confused.