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CA is so triumphant that it will most likely mimic Detroit before it implodes or falls off into the Pacific.

I'm not sure I buy the "CA utopia" idea. The cost of housing is astronomical.

The future is bright

A vast, despoiled Delhi slum with nice weather and bizarre liberal sacred cows and insanity inducing shibboleths.

Naked hippies and street people chewing cuds of hemp and spitting it into the crotches of Jerusalem whores, seeking lawyers holding casting calls for professional clients.

Businesses reduced to black market racketeers who use advanced technologies to avoid state revenuers. The revenuers roam in large armored vehicles extorting the remaining vestiges of those foolish enough to operate open, legitimate businesses.

The wealthy living behind armored walls on the ocean and moving about with Uzi equipped guards.

California lives off the delusions of a steady stream of dumbasses who, for some strange reason, believe that a city containing the intersection of Pico and Sepulveda, and the 405 south of Sunset, is glamorous.

The predictions that California taxation will drive away businesses come out year after year. Some businesses leave, only to be replaced by fresh morons who dream of driving a Ferrari at 45 mph along Pacific Coast Highway.

Decade after decade, you see these stupid fvcks, gold chains tangled in the chest hair, thinking they've made it big with the leased Audi and the pneumatic trophy wife.

There is an endless supply of them - every overseas boom, from Arab oil in the 1970s through the Japanese in the 1980s, and forward to today, produces a fresh supply of young wealthy men with more money than brains, all of whom believe they will make it in "the business" or in something that they intend to headquarter in California.

Until taxes are high enough to discourage fenderheads who pay $200K for a vehicle they drive up and down the beach at 45mph, California will continue. The day may come when even they stay away, but it has been predicted for 40 years, and no sign of it happening yet.

Not sure I understand the premise of the article.

Excellent little commentary from Maher.

dodgerfanjohn says

Not sure I understand the premise of the article.

That's okay, many of us can't understand where you're coming from half the time.

I appreciate the symmetry.

Uh, when I went to the page it was under "COMEDY" - that started to tell me to not take it seriously. Next, I saw who wrote it, Bill Maher, and while I did read part of it, the fact that he authored it told me what to expect from the get-go; the man is out-of-his-mind libtard. So yes, he wrote what I would have expected, from the mind of that idiot, comes words of stupidity.

Yep our credit rating just went from the worst in the nation to only the 49th worst. Eat our dust Illinois and look out ahead you envious bastards!

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/31/business/la-fi-mo-s-p-hikes-californias-bond-rating-20130131

I thought Texas was doing well overall because of high oil prices. On the other hand, they've been having severe droughts.

freak80 says

I thought Texas was doing well overall because of high oil prices. On the other hand, they've been having severe droughts.

Brain droughts.

freak80 says

I thought Texas was doing well overall because of high oil prices. On the other hand, they've been having severe droughts.

One of the articles I posted above almost applauds Texas by LA Times normally left leaning writers:

"The state's borrowing from Wall Street in recent years also comes at a cost. According to the state treasurer's office, it will cost $2,559 per Californian to pay that back. Texas, by contrast, has taken on just $588 of debt per resident."

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/13/local/la-me-state-debt-20130114

And I don't have a link at the moment, as I'm both working and playing right now but from what I understand Texas is the only net benefactor to federal coffers of the three biggest states with NY being right in the middle and California being a net beneficiary.

CL says

Since then, everything Republicans say can't or won't work -- gun control, immigration reform, high-speed rail -- California is making work.

Seriously? Gun control "works" in California? Where, in Oakland? High-speed rail "works"? How exactly something which hasn't been even built yet, can be declared "working"? I doubt Bill smokes MJ, he must be on something much, much stronger.

Straw Man says

California

I'm kinda curious about that part too. Gun violence is down across the nation but from what I understand since the Clinton Assault Weapons Ban, which expired in 2004(?), but was kept intact by California, we have gone from #9 in gun crime to number #5 the last time I checked.

lakermania says

Straw Man says

California

I'm kinda curious about that part too. Gun violence is down across the nation but from what I understand since the Clinton Assault Weapons Ban, which expired in 2004(?), but was kept intact by California, we have gone from #9 in gun crime to number #5 the last time I checked.

We probably pay too much attention to this dude anyway. Bill, after all, is a comedian which is just a nicer word for clown.

"Exceptionalism" will be the USA showing these track records to its citizens.
The Public Be Suckered, here:
http://patrick.net/?p=1223928

California is TBTF.

Taxation is a cost of doing business, and if Californians don't like the taxes they go across the border to Arizona, and buy a little crap shack to set up shop.

California attracts investments globally. It has a big port system, and is very friendly to immigration.

People think Mexican when they think immigration, but I'll bet there are more Asians without green cards.

It is a comedy piece, and yes they are kicking debt down the road, but they do have a life style.

The biggest point is that while conservatives talk about what won't work, others make things happen.

CL says

Brain droughts.

In the rural areas for sure. But the same could be said for rural areas in every state, right?

Houston has a huge number of engineers working in the petroleum and refining industries. No, those industries aren't the most environmentally friendly, but getting oil from 3 miles under the ocean requires brains. Lot's of them. And chemical engineering is nothing to sneeze at.

And of course Austin has it's high-tech sector.