Under most circumstances, I wouldn't give two shits about Commifornia, except my paycheck depends on the company I work for being headquartered there. This means I have to interact with Californians nearly every day. It boggles my mind that some just blink like a deer in headlights when you try to point out to them the path their "elites" have taken them.

I'm toying with the idea of sending this article to some of them. Like so many other things these days when it comes to saving this country, I feel like I'm pissing up a rope.

As usual, Victor Davis Hanson has it right. If you're not familiar with Hanson, he's a Californian. A professor emeritus at Stanford, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the author of many books.

If it helps only one person...

Send it.

I have been reading Kurt Schlichter lately....Clancy he is not but he does capture the absurdity that is going on in CA and the north east well.

When the headlines start to match his books you kinda have to shake your head....or start to build the wall along the CA AZ border

I love it...

FAILED LIBERAL POLICIES

Smacking them in the face...

The sad part is that many of them simply refuse to see it.

Like people on the Titanic calling room service...

If your livelihood depends on it, don't send it. All it takes is one person to complain about it.

Cali has 12% of the nations total population yet 1/3 of its welfare recipients..

I recall for a short while ago, that kalifornistan's total debt was in excess of TWO TRILLION DOLLARS! Apparently they have a large debt that is not commonly even addressed.

Just did a search, and they are now saying that the debt is $1.3 trillion. But, as I read some time ago, they have another debt that is nearly as large that somehow does not get mentioned.

Anyway, even if it is only $1.3T, it positively proves that their socialistic gubbermint does not work.

No matter how bad it gets, Newsom and his successors will never admit their policies and ideology are a failure. They will simply continue to blame everyone else - greedy corporations, right wing saboteurs, etc. Just look at Venezuela - people are eating zoo animals to survive, but there is zero admission by the government that they are in crisis. Anything bad is blamed on the US and capitalists.

So California is bad but they have a long way to go before they hit rock bottom. And when they do, look for them to stay there for a long time rather than admit the problem and seek real solutions.

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
No matter how bad it gets, Newsom and his successors will never admit their policies and ideology are a failure. They will simply continue to blame everyone else - greedy corporations, right wing saboteurs, etc. Just look at Venezuela - people are eating zoo animals to survive, but there is zero admission by the government that they are in crisis. Anything bad is blamed on the US and capitalists.

So California is bad but they have a long way to go before they hit rock bottom. And when they do, look for them to stay there for a long time rather than admit the problem and seek real solutions.

Sadly, I suspect you are right.

I once suggested that California cede its 4 southern counties back to Mexico, wall it off and start over again with all those northern counties. Realizing that it will never happen, of course!

Perhaps the only solution is for the US government to cut off ALL federal money to California and let them sink into a total financial swamp (of their own making) and then hope that the rational residents finally figure it out. Still does not address their staggering debt, but I truly resent having my tax money going out there to support that financial disaster. Until the residents there start having to pay the price for their abject stupidity nothing will changes.

I realize there are a lot of good people there, but they really need to get involved and remodel/rebuild their state government.

Worst part of the collapse is that the rest of us will be on the hook for the socialist failures.

I find that VDH shares the same qualities I value in Jordan Peterson: brilliant mind, measured, analytical and the ability to penetrate to the heart of the matter like a rapier.

Why would anyone withhold the truth from someone who has been deceived? Send it to everyone you know there.

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Perhaps the only solution is for the US government to cut off ALL federal money to California and let them sink into a total financial swamp (of their own making) and then hope that the rational residents finally figure it out. Still does not address their staggering debt, but I truly resent having my tax money going out there to support that financial disaster.

Same here.

If they vote for Calexit... I wouldn't be opposed. It would relieve us of the burden.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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Perhaps the only solution is for the US government to cut off ALL federal money to California and let them sink into a total financial swamp (of their own making) and then hope that the rational residents finally figure it out. Still does not address their staggering debt, but I truly resent having my tax money going out there to support that financial disaster.

Same here.

If they vote for Calexit... I wouldn't be opposed. It would relieve us of the burden.

If we build a wall and prevent escapees from entering the US without delousing and reprogramming to accept others' liberties and respect others' rights with a promise to never vote again.

Don't forget guys that there are still good conservative people here.

Bashing California gets old sometimes...

So, here's a reply from someone (NOT in California HQ) that I sent it to. There's a pretty strong spin machine at work.

https://www.businessinsider.co...blowing-facts-2019-4

i wouldn't mix politics (or religion) and work

A perfect response from the comments section:

Q: What did socialists use before candles?
A: Electricity.

Leftist aren't in the least bit ashamed of California. Oh no, that is what they want for all of us. They consider California the ideal.

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Originally posted by fpuhan:
So, here's a reply from someone (NOT in California HQ) that I sent it to. There's a pretty strong spin machine at work.

https://www.businessinsider.co...blowing-facts-2019-4

That's a stupid and irrelevant article. It says look at these 3 great things while ignoring the rest of the crap that's killing the state!