This Is IT! Going to Leave California ASAP!

[DerailAmnesty.com]

This is the best thing I have read about the recent election we had in our sunny state. The author is dead on the money with this one.

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How do California and the Titanic differ?
by Dennis Prager

OK, riddle fans, here's a toughie: What's the difference between California voters and the passengers on the Titanic?

The passengers on the Titanic didn't vote to hit the iceberg.

Most Americans understand that California is sinking. What is almost incredible is that it has voted to sink.

On Election Day 2010, Californians voted Democrats into every statewide position (one is still undecided). This is the party that singlehandedly has brought one of the world's greatest economies to near ruin. There may well be historical parallels to what Californians did – but I cannot think of any.

A listener called my radio show two days after the elections to tell me that his business is booming – thanks to Californians. His occupation? He's a real estate agent in Phoenix, Ariz.

The middle class has begun to leave California. It is, of course, impossible for most members of such a large group to leave a state; few people leave their family, their friends, their job and their home except under the most dramatic circumstances. But this fact makes all the more noteworthy the exodus from California that has been taking place.

You have to wonder how many businesses and individuals would leave California if their friends and family could also leave, if they could find a comparable job elsewhere and if they could sell their homes without losing money. What you don't have to wonder about is who would stay under those conditions. The state of California would eventually be left largely with those groups who voted Democrat in this election: rich liberals (such as those who live in Nancy Pelosi's Marin County, in the Bay Area and in West Los Angeles); state and municipal workers (who vote Democrat in as direct a pay-for-vote scheme as a law-based society allows); those who rely on state and city governments for entitlements; and those Latinos who either fall into the last category or who unfortunately identify the Republican Party with anti-Latino sentiments because it opposes illegal immigration.

Those who believe in individual responsibility, the free market and personal liberty are a minority in California. We greet each other as Americans would greet each other meeting in a foreign country.

We watch as one of the greatest places in the world – with its extraordinary natural beauty, almost uniquely beautiful weather and agricultural abundance – wastes all of this as a result of having become a left-wing experiment. What is particularly saddening is to see a state whose success was achieved because it was a Mecca for the adventurous in spirit do everything possible to crush that spirit and drive away those who have it.

There is a silver lining here: clarity. Americans living elsewhere need not elect liberal Democrats to know what will happen if they do. They only need to look at California if they want to see what happens to a state governed by the left (and, for that matter, they can look at Texas to see what happens to a state's finances when governed by the right).

The left and its teachers unions have ruined public education in California. The left and its public-service unions have saddled the state with $500 billion in unfunded pension liability. California's left-governed cities have set themselves up as "sanctuary cities" for those who have come into America illegally. And the left passes more and more rules governing the behavior of California citizens. Two examples: San Francisco just banned McDonald's Happy Meals because they come with a toy and therefore entice children to eat fattening food; and the Democratic legislature has made it illegal for a California employer – even in a retail operation – to ask a male employee who comes to work wearing a dress to wear men's clothing while at work.

And to render the Titanic analogy even more accurate, Californians voted to retain a law that was described by George Will as one "that preposterously aims to cool the planet by requiring a 30 percent reduction of carbon emissions by 2020."

That law will ensure that California taxes energy use more than any other state. That, in turn, is guaranteed to increase unemployment and the cost of living in the state – one more reason businesses and productive individuals are leaving, but rarely moving into, California.

Environmentalist true believers have free reign in California. They have convinced a majority of the state's voters to believe the increasingly absurd notion that human carbon dioxide emission is heating up the planet to temperatures so high that humanity and the earth will suffer cataclysmic consequences.

To return to our Titanic metaphor, the great difference between that ill-fated ship's crew and California's crew (its voters and the California Democratic Party) is that the Titanic's crew did everything possible to avoid hitting the iceberg; California's crew did everything possible to hit it. Perhaps they believe global warming will melt it before they get there.

[LAPhil]

Yes, Dennis totally gets it on this issue, just as he does on most other issues IMO. It's too bad more people can't or don't listen to his radio show.

[PochoPatriot]

Originally Posted by LAPhil

Yes, Dennis totally gets it on this issue, just as he does on most other issues IMO. It's too bad more people can't or don't listen to his radio show.

One reason people don't listen to him is that Dennis requires you to think, and not parrot talking points.

Edited to add: I am sure that there is one member of this board that WON'T listen to him because Dennis is a Zionist.

[LAPhil]

Originally Posted by PochoPatriot

One reason people don't listen to him is that Dennis requires you to think, and not parrot talking points.

Edited to add: I am sure that there is one member of this board that WON'T listen to him because Dennis is a Zionist.

Even if Dennis wasn't a Zionist, just his being Jewish would be enough to deter our resident anti-Semite.

[DerailAmnesty.com]

Originally Posted by PochoPatriot

Edited to add: I am sure that there is one member of this board that WON'T listen to him because Dennis is a Zionist.

Originally Posted by LAPhil

Even if Dennis wasn't a Zionist, just his being Jewish would be enough to deter our resident anti-Semite.

You know, the day I have to listen to back handed, thinly-veiled insults from you hook nose sympathizers is the same day I'll smile like a good little obedient goyim while getting fleeced on April 15 to pay for the Zionist Occupational Government.

Take your marching orders from Jerusalem all you like, you'll fool no one. You are both an open book.

[LAPhil]

Originally Posted by DerailAmnesty.com

You know, the day I have to listen to back handed, thinly-veiled insults from you hook nose sympathizers is the same day I'll smile like a good little obedient goyim while getting fleeced on April 15 to pay for the Zionist Occupational Government.

Take your marching orders from Jerusalem all you like, you'll fool no one. You are both an open book.

Careful, you might get banned.

[DerailAmnesty.com]

Below is a portion of one of the leading stories in today's L.A. Times.

Let me summarize: Turn out the lights, the party's over ...


By Shane Goldmacher, Los Angeles Times


Reporting from Sacramento — As Jerry Brown prepares to take over as governor, California faces a $25.4-billion deficit — far larger than state officials were projecting only days ago — the state's chief budget analyst said Wednesday.

The figure, projected over the next year and a half, results from billions of dollars in phantom savings approved by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislators last month, more budget restrictions passed by voters last week and predictions of a "painfully slow economic recovery," according to the report from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.

In addition, more than $8 billion in temporary sales, car and income taxes are set to expire in the coming year, and the federal stimulus program that has helped prop up schools, healthcare for the poor and other state programs also will soon disappear.

The report shows $20-billion annual shortfalls in future years as well.

"There is no good news," said Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor.

Simply keeping K-12 public schools funded at their current level would expand the deficit, Taylor said. That is because billions of dollars in school cutbacks are already factored in.

The predicted $25.4-billion deficit is the equivalent of about 29% of this year's general fund budget. Erasing the gap will require a combination of severe cuts and more in tax collections over several years, the report said.