Comments on: Be prepared — I bet the California economy is going to take a dive

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:52:52 +0000

This is not a case of “the perfect is the enemy of the good.” It is a case of desperately searching for the lesser of two evils.

But they are the same thing.

I got my reply to Earl, in the works, as I had to discontinue working on it last night.

California just has too much money. The ports, the huge population, Hollywood, it’s like a boondogle. So much money, it is starting to entice thegovernment into taking a slice.

By: Trish

Trish — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:19:34 +0000

Kevin–
if she moves here to Illinois she’ll be in an even MORE liberal outpost.
Trust me. It’s not pretty out here.

By: zhombre

zhombre — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:04:39 +0000

Is not the California legislature also putting forth a measure that would award all the state’s electoral college votes to the winner of the national popular vote — unless, of course, the winner of the popular vote was a Republican who won the votes by fraud, subterfuge and manipulation of the vote in complicity with Diebolt.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:26:14 +0000

Kevin is right, Book. What was I thinking? Your anthropological peregrinations among the natives of the Tiburon /Bay area are far-too valuable contributions to the historical record and as a warning to future generations. Your on-the-site observations may do for California what Edward Gibbons did for the history of Rome. First things, first, however: are there any missionary schools to which you can send your kids, so that they get a decent education? We still have pretty good schools to be found here in the heartland. They actually recite the pledge of allegiance in those schools…unapologetically.

By: zhombre

zhombre — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:33:04 +0000

My thoughts exactly, Danny. Middle class people have been fleeing California for years, replaced in numbers by illegals from Latin America (correct me if I’m wrong, Book; you live there and I reside in Florida). The future of California may be as the most environmentally-friendly banana republic on the face of the earth.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:31:50 +0000

Ah, but if she moved, she wouldn’t necessarily be able to offer outpourings from a conservative living in a liberal outpost (unless perhaps she moved to MA.) The whole basis for the Bookwormroom (not to mention the space-time continuum or even the delicate balance between yin and yang) may be disasterously altered! The horror, the horror.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:44:06 +0000

Hi Book - have you thought about transplanting to Reno? I suspect that California’s loss will continue to be Nevada’s gain (and Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona…).

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:36:01 +0000

I have a suspicion that prop 87 (a tax on oil companies drilling in CA) will also prove to be destructive to the CA economy if it passes. I’m betting that the oil companies are clever enough to find a way to raise prices at the pump to cover their costs of the new tax even though the prop specifically prohibits it (and you’re already paying approximately $0.50/gal more than I am here in PA.)

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By: Earl

Earl — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:46:58 +0000

Have I mentioned lately how thrilled I am to be living in Tennessee?

As a second generation San Franciso-born California native, it is far less painful to watch the decline into implosion from across the country than it would be to live through it up close and personal.

WHAT is the matter with folks out there, anyhow? Is it something in the water…..? It makes me sad; it makes me crazy; it tears my heart out…….