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Old 07-27-2012, 07:38 PM
 
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A good analysis of where we are and where we are headed. Heaven help us:

"California Bad Dreaming" by Michael Boskin | Project Syndicate
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Old 07-27-2012, 09:36 PM
 
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None of the California cheerleaders will care because the weather's great.
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Old 07-27-2012, 10:58 PM
 
Location: Where they serve real ale.
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Just another partisan blog.
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Old 07-27-2012, 11:24 PM
 
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Should we also feign surprise that the head of the "George W. Bush Council" mouths a bunch of Republican talking points? If you want to make a point how about linking to a creditable source? You know one which actually has some sort of journalistic or academic integrity instead of a partisan political operation.
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Old 07-28-2012, 05:29 AM
 
Location: Quimper Peninsula
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Should we also feign surprise that the head of the "George W. Bush Council" mouths a bunch of Republican talking points? If you want to make a point how about linking to a creditable source? You know one which actually has some sort of journalistic or academic integrity instead of a partisan political operation.
Yep..

Funny I do have concern over where California is headed... However, it has nothing to do with the BS in the link of the OP...It as actually the number of people with fail attitudes...The "gullibility" of so many posters, the negative attitude, the no can do attitude. Whining and complaining pawns of today's political right..

California, a state built on dreamers, free thinkers, those not bound and shackled by society,IS being over run with soft losers,that only see the negative, the bad in everything they look at... Those looking to point fingers and place blame like a child having a tantrum. THIS is the "bad dreaming" for California!

Bad dreams or failure are self fulfilling prophecies. Those that wish for it will get it.. Those that are strong and brave, those willing to take risk to take action, they will succeed. Succeed like the dreamers before them, the pioneers the immigrants coming today with dreams and aspirations....

Life goes on so does the dream... Some simply choose to make it a bad dream, and remain pawns in the game of life..
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Old 07-28-2012, 06:00 AM
 
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Should we also feign surprise that the head of the "George W. Bush Council" mouths a bunch of Republican talking points? If you want to make a point how about linking to a creditable source? You know one which actually has some sort of journalistic or academic integrity instead of a partisan political operation.
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Yep..

Funny I do have concern over where California is headed... However, it has nothing to do with the BS in the link of the OP...It as actually the number of people with fail attitudes...The "gullibility" of so many posters, the negative attitude, the no can do attitude. Whining and complaining pawns of today's political right..

California, a state built on dreamers, free thinkers, those not bound and shackled by society,IS being over run with soft losers,that only see the negative, the bad in everything they look at... Those looking to point fingers and place blame like a child having a tantrum. THIS is the "bad dreaming" for California!

Bad dreams or failure are self fulfilling prophecies. Those that wish for it will get it.. Those that are strong and brave, those willing to take risk to take action, they will succeed. Succeed like the dreamers before them, the pioneers the immigrants coming today with dreams and aspirations....

Life goes on so does the dream... Some simply choose to make it a bad dream, and remain pawns in the game of life..
Yes lets completely dismiss this Stanford Economics Professor and Senior Hoover Fellow.

But again the weather is nice, so.........


Head in the Sand - YouTube
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Old 07-28-2012, 06:51 AM
 
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Yes lets completely dismiss this Stanford Economics Professor and Senior Hoover Fellow.
Sure. Why not dismiss him. Conservatives completely dismiss the world-famous Nobel Prize winning economist who backs his observations and prognostications with indisputable historical fact and explains that the way out of the mess is economically quite simple -- thwarted only by politics driven by the current extremist conservative agenda.
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Old 07-28-2012, 07:17 AM
 
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LOL! How typical. Everything becomes partisan thus simply driving the heads further into the silica and the cheer leaders channel their inner alter-egos. How delicious! One side "owns" the state's politics but everything is ever and always the other side's fault.

Love the weather. Love the topography. Hate the governance!
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Old 07-28-2012, 01:27 PM
 
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LOL! How typical. Everything becomes partisan thus simply driving the heads further into the silica and the cheer leaders channel their inner alter-egos. How delicious! One side "owns" the state's politics but everything is ever and always the other side's fault.

Love the weather. Love the topography. Hate the governance!
You are no different than the rest of us then head in the sand..

My primary point, is California was build, and rose to greatness, because of dreamers, those escaping the naysayers, or those that say it can not be done, to any new out of the box ideas.

Sorry maybe it is all the sand in my ears, but I rarely here ideas from your side, just what is wrong.. Just look at all the negative doom and gloom threads on here. Just about 100% of them vector back to a grumpy unhappy conservative.

Innovation and out of the box thinking is what leaders do. Sure, sometimes they are bad ideas, ,but at least ideas! Sheep are what moan and grown, and just follow, doing what they are told.
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Old 07-28-2012, 02:01 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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You are no different than the rest of us then head in the sand..

My primary point, is California was build, and rose to greatness, because of dreamers, those escaping the naysayers, or those that say it can not be done, to any new out of the box ideas.

Sorry maybe it is all the sand in my ears, but I rarely here ideas from your side, just what is wrong.. Just look at all the negative doom and gloom threads on here. Just about 100% of them vector back to a grumpy unhappy conservative.

Innovation and out of the box thinking is what leaders do. Sure, sometimes they are bad ideas, ,but at least ideas! Sheep are what moan and grown, and just follow, doing what they are told.
Clearly you have no idea of who or what you're *talking* to because you'd have to really try hard to be more wrong.

California's governance is broke, busted, wallowing and circling the drain. It's just that simple and just that difficult. Getting there took a bipartisan effort and it's worked to a fault.

Here's a hint for ya. I have no "side." Neither need nor want one. I can actually think for myself. Imagine that!
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