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Here is the inconvenient truth. Conservatives like business, right? Well, California, and that other liberal hell hole Massachusetts have probably spawned more innovation and patents over the last 50 years than all the red states put together. Sure, they are recovering from a huge housing bust, but California will lead the country and probably the world in business start ups and whole new branches of business for decades to come. It attracts the smartest people in the world and invests in them. That is the wellspring of a strong economy, and it always will be.
Check out this report and see where California compares in patents with the rest of the country over the last 14 years or so:
The report, which covers the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, says that the state's negative status -- all of its assets minus all of its liabilities -- increased that year, largely because it spent more than it received in revenue.
Right-wingers have been predicting California's demise for decades. Meanwhile, California has a projected budget surplus, because of needed tax increases, which closes deficits and debts.
RINO Arnold only got elected because Californians RECALLED ******* Gray Davis for destroying the economy.
Remember rolling blackouts? Remember unlimited public worker entitlements and pensions? Remember U6 unemployment peaking at 10.6% under Davis?
Strange how weak RINO Arnold couldn't save California from any of these wonderful Democrat-created problems.
I remember rolling blackouts: it turned out that the main culprit in the electricity crisis was deregulation, which opened the door for ruthless market manipulation. When the market manipulation went away, so did the blackouts. It wasn't the union or public worker entitlements and pensions. You see, it always works like this, the big guys steal the money and then blame the lowest earning workers for the problem.
Right-wingers have been predicting California's demise for decades. Meanwhile, California has a projected budget surplus, because of needed tax increases, which closes deficits and debts.
The underlying financial condition is worse. Cash flow <> balance sheet.
You can thank Proposition 13 for that. That was just another let's-reduce-taxes-and-f--k-up-the-place effort, and it certainly had an effect, now didn't it???
Now, THIRTY-FIVE years after Proposition 13 began f_____g up California, now finally there are all kinds of attempts to kill the money-sucking Proposition which f--ked up the place so much.
Every time I hear someone open their mouth with the words, "let's reduce taxes," I get an overwhelming desire to puke because I have seen the constant damage done by the tax-reducing wackos and nutjobs.
Quite obvious that liberals hate old people. Repealing Prop 13, which was put into place to protect folks' homes, that they'd lived in for decades, from being taken because they couldn't pay the high taxes, will only cause another housing bubble which will affect the elderly more than anyone else.
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Originally Posted by Larry Siegel
Liberal meant something different to James Madison than it does to Harry Reid.
Liberal = freedom loving
or = everyone trying to live at everyone else's expense?
I thought you people were upset that liberals are "elitist" - in other words, that they're well-educated and rich? Well, which is it, elitist or welfare queens?
It's funny how much the California economy rebounded since the OP.
Liberalism from the 1940s through 1970, through strong unions, a generous minimum wage, high taxes on wealth and generous subsidies for education, led to the biggest increases in income for the middle class. Since the conservative have watered down those policies, the middle class is stagnant while the tiny sliver at the top has never done better.
You Bet! Was the 50's perfect NO, but we were a much better nation then compared to today.
I don't think so.
I do not want to bring back the racist Jim Crow laws, polluted rivers and air, censorship, McCarthy's witch-hunts, women held back, gays and lesbians criminalized, ad nauseam!
Nope. I, for one, never want to go back to those days.
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