Buyer's Remorse

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  1. Stu Ryckman

    Stu Ryckman Well-Known Member

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    http://news.yahoo.com/poll-voters-turn-against-california-bullet-train-214723961.html
     
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    Gotta love the opposition armed with an environmental impact study. Isn't that like fire fighting fire? Bet that there are a lot of folks in Fla. glad that they don't have one of these costly nearly useless HSRR lines.
     
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    What an unbelievably screwed up state.
     
  4. Terry O'Keefe

    Terry O'Keefe Well-Known Member Administrator

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    All you have to do is go back through JO'Co's posts to see how bad things are out there....Still one of the most beautiful states in the Union...just totally screwed up.
     
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    Agreed.
     
  6. JO'Co

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    re: Beautiful California

    The lib/Dems in Sacramento are now $16 billion in the hole after giving the public employee unions everything they asked for. California teachers are the highest paid in the nation, as are the prison guards who's average, yearly salary runs well into six figures. State workers retire at age 55, with higher salaries in retirement than they made as workers: just like Greece.

    In November, California voters will be asked to approve a new package of tax hikes to cover all of this government gravy, despite the state losing more than 200 large employers to other states in just the last five years. If the package doesn't pass, the state will cut 15 more days off the school calendar, reducing our district to 150-160 work days per year; most state parks and museums will be closed; state universities like UCLA and Cal-Berkeley may have to go private...etc.

    How bad is it? My grandson was at a quarterback camp last week at San Diego State. The SDSU coaches told them that they get more than 70,000 applicants every year and the average entering student has a 3.8 GPA... Now think about that one. We're not talking about UCLA or Harvard here: it's friggen San Diego State! This tells me that most California college-bound kids are being forced out of state or denied admission to college all together. I could give endless other examples of how California doesn't work, but you get the idea. Socialism doesn't work...and neither does Chicago-style, labor union, machine politics, and vote buying. As Maggie Thatcher warned: "Sooner or later you run out of other people's money."