California's Economic Downslide was Created by Texans

[Sunnysee]

Originally Posted by crone

All I know is that when California was in the middles of the electric energy "crisis" I was paying twice as much per kWh for electricity in Texas as I was paying for my mom in Lake Tahoe.
So much for manufactured crisis.

Crone, really?! This is a shock. Texas is known for low electrical rates, and San Antonio/Bexar County is known for having THE lowest rates within Texas. (The NSA chose San Antonio for location of their gigantic "Data Mining Center" clearly because they use vast amounts of power and SA is so cheap, and secondly because Microsoft moved into SA to locate their own data-mining center, and NSA works with, or "off of" Microsoft at least in-part.

[Xanathos]

Typical California - refuse to acknowledge that their absurd policies doomed themselves.

[Ultrarunner]

Originally Posted by wutitiz

So I think between this thread and the other we can diagnose the problems of California. It wasn't the years of liberalism with politicians like Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, Willie Brown, Moonbeam Brown, etc. It wasn't the combo of having a high state income tax & high sales tax. It wasn't such crazy regulation that manufacturers had to have special California models of their products.

No it was a) Bush did it; b)Texas did it; c) prop 13, passed back in 1978 by anti-tax RW
ers caused big time problems that have kicked in just in the last decade or so.

Point for fact... Prop 13 enjoyed a groundswell of popularity to make it the law of the land...

Prop 13 could have/would have never passed without widespread support... there were not enough conservatives in the State to get it passed.

Prop 13 is the perfect example of the voters looking past political parties.

A quick look at Prop 13 history will show a large part of the measure's support was due to the State taking over education via the Serrano Decision...

[Spindle]

Originally Posted by TheFix

Well, they don't call it the "Great Bush Depression" for nothing, you know.

that title relates to the global under-supply of wax.