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Translation: Democrats are too far into the pockets of the unions to effectively govern California. That is what created the Golden State debacle, and the marriage to the unions keeps the Democrats from making the budgetary decisions necessary to rescue California from ruin.
However, even if Bill Lockyer can’t see any way out, I see one: stop electing Democrats to the Legislature. If the state GOP doesn’t have this clip in ads by the end of next week, maybe California needs better GOP leadership, too.
California probably needs the sort of violent paroxysm that sweeps away entire governments - think French Revolution.
The truth is, California really is doomed. It is, thanks to structural gerrymandering, illegal immigration, and union money and power, unable to elect anybody who can do anything about its woes. We do nothing but move from one disaster - Grayout Davis, anybody? - to the next - 20 billion buck deficits as far as the eye can see, y’all? I have already reconciled myself to the necessity of leaving the state I used to love so much. In fact, I have probably stayed too long as it is, with my house 60 percent underwater, and at the moment staring down the barrel of being laid off from my job.
Twenty years from now, California will look like one of those SF movie dystopias, with rotting, wrecked urban areas inhabited by poverty-stricken, Spanish-speaking illegals, a few walled bastions like Marin County, and rural farming communities with roadblocks and armed guards regulating passage. Snake Plisskin territory, in other words.
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Snake Plissken? I heard he was dead.
Ahem.
As long as you’re fully insured your home is never underwater.
Your car’s been vandalized, you’ve been threatened, your power was tampered with. Arson is the next logical step. It’s just lucky you and Cujo were out that weekend.
Or your home could be literally underwater. As someone suggested a while back, plumbing leaks can destroy a house as thoroughly as fire. Crying shame you and Cujo were on vacation the week that the fitting burst and no one noticed until too late.
Like Detroit looks now?
I resent that. All Our illegals speak Arabic.
How does that work with a townhouse condo in a building with eight of them, Steve?
I have “homeowners” insurance on skin-in stuff. The building is covered by insurance held by the association, paid for through my condo fees.
Even if the place were somehow to get burned out, the only thing my insurance would pay off on was the stuff inside — not nearly enough to pay off the mortgage(s).
Bummer. I have no idea of the most profitable way to destroy a condo unit, nor even any idea of whom to ask. (Nor, I should mention, practical experience in torching a house, either.)
Worse, far worse…think Cleveland, OH, in the ’70s - or Flint, MI right now.
Geez, Bill - I really liked the visit I made to S.F. a few years ago; it is (or, at least, was then) a pretty nice city, in many ways. But - there are a lot of really nice cities in this big land of ours - and many of them, at this juncture, seem to hold much better future prospects. Particularly as regards your personal well-being.
Isn’t it time to go? Or, at least, to plan the “going”, for if/when the job goes away?
I see one: stop electing Democrats to the Legislature.
This is probably the last thing that the voters in the major metro areas here in CA would ever consider.