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What was once “California Dreamin” is now a Golden State nightmare

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 260 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections, Elections 2010, Elections 2012, Environmentalism, History, immigration, Misery Index, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Socialism at November 6th, 2010 - 4:30 pm

I’d say I feel sorry for them, but I don’t, so I won’t. The majority of voters obviously want only one party, the dimocrats, who never saw a spending bill they didn’t love, to rule. Every major office in the state is now held by dimocrats.

And every time you think the liberal voters out there can’t get any more stupid, they prove us wrong, and surprise us, yet again, with their colossal ignorance. Well, maybe surprise is the wrong word, because nothing they do surprises me or you.

What these libturd dumbasses fail to see is that this out of control spending cannot be sustained. You can’t just keep raising income, sales, and corporate taxes, and expect those who are getting royally screwed to just lay back and take it, as if they have no other choice.

Even though the spending there by the liberals in the dimocrat controlled owned legislature is totally out of control and unsustainable (and has been for years), it’s going to get worse. Much, much, worse.

The state is already almost $160 billion in debt, and they have no way of paying this money back, other than a federal bailout. Then to make matters even worse, the liberal voters in California, in their infinite wisdom, actually gave the legislature, which already spends money like drunken sailors on shore leave liberals, the green light to pass the more unsustainable budgets that will add billions of dollars more to the state’s debt with a simple majority of the legislature approving it, rather than the two-thirds majority that was previously required. What sheer brilliance! This is akin to giving your checkbook full of blank checks to your teenagers and their friends and then dropping them off at the local mall.

What is going to continue to happen, and will now pick up steam, after the elections earlier this week, is a mass exodus of both growing businesses, large and small, with all their high-paying jobs, and the middle class, who are the backbone of what’s left of the state’s wrecked economy, and who are the productive workers in the state that worked those jobs, who will now move to “greener pastures”, states more business and taxpayer-friendly.

Already, California is going to lose 3-4 congressional seats when re-districting is completed, after the final numbers from the 2010 Census are tallied, due to hundreds of thousands of productive working people leaving the Golden State as businesses that employed them either moved to more business-friendly states or simply shut their doors due to overbearing regulations and high taxes.

There used to be around a dozen auto assembly plants in the state. Every American auto manufacturer, and even Toyota, had plants in California. They’ve all closed their plants there and moved elsewhere, taking their high paying jobs with them.

The defense, aviation and aerospace industries, companies such as Douglas Aviation, Lockheed-Martin, Convair and General Dynamics, that once had dozens of plants and facilities up and down the coast, and employed thousands upon thousands with good, high paying jobs, are now gone. And in turn, the smaller companies, that once supplied parts and supplies to these larger companies, also were forced to close their doors or move.

Even the high-tech companies, such as Apple, Google, DIRECTV, and Hewlett-Packard/Compaq, which were supposed to help offset some of these job losses from other industries’ leaving the state, are starting to wise up and move elsewhere; to Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado or Washington, all of which are much more business-friendly. Some of these companies might be run by liberals, but they have shareholders to answer to who won’t tolerate losing money just for the sake of staying in California with its business-killing taxes and regulations.

These liberal imbecile voters, and liberal imbecile legislators they elected, have brought this upon themselves for a myriad of reasons, including, but not limited to, allowing the state employees to unionize (this happened during Jerry Brown’s first term as Governor). The public employee unions are now the most powerful in the state, and its workers are or will be owed billions of dollars in benefits that the state will simply not be able to pay, again, without a federal bailout.

They stupidly expected “green energy” jobs to replace the thousands of high-paying “dirty energy” jobs, such as at coal-fired power plants, oil refineries, etc., which were shut down or moved out of California due to out of control anti-pollution laws, fines, and fees. And even these “green energy” companies are leaving the state!

Solexant, which is a solar panel manufacturing company, recently announced that it will relocate to Oregon, and will build a manufacturing plant there that will employ around 170 people to start.

The liberal voters also refused to suspend the state’s cap and tax energy law which will cause utility costs to sky-rocket, and lower the already low standards of living for a lot of its citizens. And if that’s not bad enough, they even allow illegal aliens to vote because most cities refuse to enforce the requirement that only U.S. citizens vote.

But just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse, it will, after the elections earlier this week.

With this mass exodus of productive people, leaving by the thousands every month, and businesses leaving by the dozens, all that will be left in California will be a collapsing economy, with virtually no jobs and no job growth in the near future, but hundreds of billions of dollars of unpaid debt.

So, in closing, all you California libs voters, we hope you will enjoy watching the train wreck that you are responsible for by giving expanded powers to your already out of control lib legislators, who will undoubtedly put you even further in debt. I know we will enjoy watching it.

Hope you like your millions of illegal aliens, lowering the state’s already pathetic standard of living and wages, collecting welfare and bankrupting the state’s social services, which I’m certain are already bankrupt and operating in the red.

Keep spending like the drunken sailors liberals you are. But when this all comes crashing down on your heads, and trust me, it will, and sooner, rather than later, don’t come hat in hand begging the rest of us taxpayers to bail you out, because, as the old adage goes: “That dog don’t hunt”. In other words, it ain’t gonna happen!

To you smart people, the conservative voters, who know I am right, I wish you good luck. You’re going to need it, if you plan on riding out the storm.

Take Your Olive Branch and Shove It, Dimocrats

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 283 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2010, Elections 2012, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Socialism, Tea Parties at November 3rd, 2010 - 8:30 am

Other than the fact that she was too polite , here’s a good column by Michelle Malkin…

By Michelle Malkin November 3, 2010

On the eve of a historic midterm election upheaval, President Barack Obama tried to walk back his gratuitous slap at Americans who oppose his radical progressive agenda. “I probably should have used the word ‘opponents’ instead of ‘enemies’ to describe political adversaries,” Obama admitted Monday. “Probably”?

Here is an ironclad certainty: It’s too little too late for the antagonist-in-chief to paper over two years of relentless Democratic incivility and hate toward his domestic “enemies.” Voters have spoken: They’ve had enough. Enough of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner’s rhetorical abuse. Enough of his feints at bipartisanship. Whatever the final tally, this week’s turnover in Congress is a GOP mandate for legislative pugilism, not peace. Voters have had enough of big government meddlers “getting things done.” They are sending fresh blood to the nation’s Capitol to get things undone.

Just two short years ago, Obama campaigned as the transcendent unifier. “Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states,” he proclaimed. “We have been and always will be the United States of America.”

It’s been an Us vs. Them freefall ever since.

“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us,” Obama taunted a few weeks ago. “They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.”

“They’re counting on young people staying home and union members staying home and black folks staying home,” the fear-mongering agent of hope and change jeered on the campaign trail last month.

“You would think they’d be saying thank you,” he sneered last April, when millions turned out for the nationwide Tax Day tea party protests.

“I want them just to get out of the way” and “don’t do a lot of talking,” he scoffed in response to prescient critics of the federal trillion-dollar stimulus boondoggle.

In addition to labeling GOP opponents of his open-borders policies “enemies” who needed to be “punished” by Latino voters, Obama accused them — that is, us — of lacking patriotism. “Those aren’t the kinds of folks who represent our core American values,” he told viewers of the Spanish-language network Univision.

Democratic leaders have taken their cue from Team Obama’s persistent politics of polarization.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called vocal citizens who protested the federal health care takeover bill during the town hall revolts of 2009 “un-American,” too. Remember? “These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American,” Pelosi and Hoyer blasted in an op-ed piece for USA Today last summer. “Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.”

This from the woman who called for a vengeful government investigation of grassroots opponents of the Ground Zero mosque.

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Illinois: prisoners get to vote, but not military members

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 51 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Crime, Democratic Party, Elections 2010, Politics, Progressives at October 24th, 2010 - 9:00 am

Remember during the 2000 Presidential election when Algore and his team of libturd thug lawyers tried to disenfranchise Military voters in Florida by getting their votes thrown out any technicality they could find or invent? So do I, so this will come as no surprise to anyone-

Illinois Soldiers Wait for Ballots. Prisoners Get Hand Delivery

Over 35 counties in Illinois missed the deadline to mail military ballots to our soldiers defending America. But in Chicago, county election officials have taken special steps to ensure that no inmates at the Cook County Jail are unable to cast a ballot.

The Chicago Board of Elections hand delivers ballots to the jail. They don’t even wait for the inmates to apply – they bring the applications with the ballots! Over 2,600 inmates have cast ballots so far – strikingly similiar to the 2,600 soldiers who will likely not recieve a ballot for the Nov 2 election.
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Is President Obungler just a moron?

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 193 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2010, Elections 2012, Healthcare, History, immigration, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Progressives, Republican Party, Socialism at October 22nd, 2010 - 8:30 am

While perusing the online editorial page of the Washington Times, I saw this op-ed.

Of morons and put-ons
By Alan Caruba

Obama convinces voters they made a mistake in 2008

How many recall the eight years of George W. Bush’s two terms in office, during which he was derided constantly as being too dumb to be president? He was deemed “a frat boy,” and yet Mr. Bush had graduated from Yale University and had gone on to secure a master’s degree from Harvard Business School. When his grades were compared to those of Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry during Mr. Bush’s campaign for re-election, it turned out the president had higher scores.

We can’t compare Barack Obama’s grades to Mr. Bush’s or anyone else’s because they and other indicators of his scholastic achievements have been hidden from public review.

This is not, however, a defense of Mr. Bush. This is about a question millions of Americans are beginning to ask: Is President Obama just a moron?

When I use the term, it should be noted that we have had presidents in the past who had impressive scholastic records but still turned out to be dumber than your average pea-picker and ridge-runner.

Woodrow Wilson took office after a distinguished career in academia and had been the governor of New Jersey. It was Wilson who embraced the income tax and turned out to be astonishingly naive about international affairs despite having helped the allies win World War I. Jimmy Carter, on paper, was no dummy. A graduate of the Naval Academy, he had been governor of Georgia, but as president, he was a dismal failure.

In early 2009, I wrote a commentary, “Putting a child in charge,” suggesting that having a young president – Mr. Obama was 47 at the time – in charge of the greatest economic and military power in the world might not be a good idea. I noted that Mr. Obama’s resume was unusually thin in terms of any real achievement. His main claim was that he had been a community organizer in Chicago. Politically, he was known best as a state senator for having voted “present” much of the time, and he had barely spent any time in the U.S. Senate before beginning to run for president.

It’s not as if he didn’t signal what he actually thought. “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.” Huh? When did we ever care what other nations thought about our driving or eating or the setting on our thermostats?

Michelle was scary, too. “Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual – uninvolved, uninformed.”

Not that far into his first 20 months in office, the independent Tea Party movement erupted all over the nation, and it wasn’t because hundreds of thousands of Americans were uninvolved or uninformed. The problem was that a million of them had journeyed earlier to Washington to protest against passage of the disastrous Obamacare “reforms” only to be dismissed by the White House as “wrong.”

Americans took notice of all the tax cheats and various loonies nominated to be in Mr. Obama’s Cabinet, many of whom had to withdraw from consideration, one who became secretary of the Treasury and dozens who went on to become “czars” without any vetting from Congress.

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