Seriously, California is the result of those boomers who have never left California to see that there is whole different world beyond their Tax Map.

Johna Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” is well written. The facts are accurate, providing credibility to enable the reader to see liberalism for what it really is-Disneyland for those who do not know how, or want, to face reality.

Well, not certifiable, anyway.

I do wish we could get our state back from the loonies, though.

You hit the nail on the head with this statement. Arnold is like the Mayor of New York. To close to the center to get elected as a Democrat so they crawl into the Republican party where their money defeats all comers.

Mind you, he had no competition fro Republican in the last election.

…but I’ll bet you Hottie commenters have some pretty good ideas about what’s wrong with California as well.

Well, for one thing, it would be nice to walk into a San Fernando Valley Target store or the Panorama City WalMart and not feel like I’ve just crossed the border into Tijuana.

STG they were actually playing mariachi music over the loudspeaker…I kid you not. It felt like I was in a freakin’ Twilight Zone episode.

Personally, I think that every progressive, Beverly Hills, open-borders liberal should be forced to shop at these stores. See what us little folks have to put up with on a daily basis.

Well, here’s a fellow from Kansas City donning his pith helmet and hacking through the jungles of the Golden State, notebook in hand and tongue in cheek.

This is my problem with Republicans: In an age of 600 TV channels, multiple on demand Internet distribution models via near-infinite bandwidth, and the majority of all 15-34 year olds glued to either cable TV or teh Internets, Republicans write frickin’ books that won’t be promoted anywhere other than AM radio and will be hidden under a stack of wanky Robert Jordan tomes in the back of every bookstore (usually near the bathrooms). Result=Nobody under the age of 47 ever reads it.

P.J. is right… we’re the “dumb party.” No matter how good that book is, it will be quickly be forgotten.

HTL on February 24, 2008 at 1:08 AM

That is such a lie! Well over half of the Democrats SUPPORTED Prop. 187, which had nothing to do with being….ANTI-IMMIGRANT! You sound like a “talking head” for La Raza. The problem with Ahhhhhnooooode is that since the recall of Gray Davis, Benedict Ahhhnooooode has continually slid into bed with FAR-LEFTISTS like Fabian Nunez and others…and that’s really worked well, hasn’t it?

I wouldn’t call SDCE a tract, most of the houses there are custom designed, my parents retired there. Nice golf course, riding stables, and tennis club.

Me..I bailed out 5 years ago and live near Puerto Vallarta Mexico. rediculously low property and income taxes, lower cost of living in general, excellent fishing, comely senoritas and cold margaritas.

windansea on February 24, 2008 at 2:10 PM

It didnt used to be, but now…thats a different story.

And then the Okee imigration of the 30′s. The super-entitlement generation takes off, thanks to Mr. Steinbeck!

Plus, some of what you said I agree with, and other I smiled about.

Having been in many notable places in the world and the country, there’s nothing like landing in San Diego, and seeing the Coronado bridge to the left. Home, at last, every single time…Of course, I understand fully if you feel the same about your home.

Professor and profitsbeard, thanks again for being you, and for being here, in the HA parlor. Though, Professor, do visit more often, please.

The problem with housing is that they don’t build the kind of housing people need. They keep building these McMansions that are hugely expensive and more house than anyone really needs and there isn’t a market for them as much as smaller dwellings.

Oh, there’s a market for big houses still, believe me. Besides, most local building codes here in the Golden State prohibit small homes like you’re talking about. My own town in the High Desert has a 1,800 s/f minimum and intends to increase it to 2,000 s/f. Supposedly, it is to keep out the “riff-raff”, but they don’t seem to notice all the Section 8 people in 2,500 s/f tract houses…

In addition, “economies of scale” come into play: it is much more expensive per square foot to build a small two-bedroom house vs a 4,000 or 5,000 s/f 5-bedroom, 4-bath “McMansion”, and a much smaller profit margin, as well.

Some of the problems are obvious: an entitled liberal aristocracy (especially in Hollywood, but also the Bay Area jet set)

This posting is lenghty, but having come of age in the Bay Area (the East Bay, the less trendy and often more seedy side of the Bay Area) I can attest first hand to the pervasiveness of the “entitled liberal aristocracy” having had to deal with it into my 30′s before fleeing the state my father referred to as the “land of fruits and nuts” in 1993.

Don’t get me wrong, there are many things I love about California, it’s one of the most beautiful states in the union with lots to offer in the way of fun and activities, but the rest you can have, especially its politics and entitlement attitude.

While I have not lived in California since moving to Arizona is 1993 I work for a chemical company as their corporate Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) manager with its corporate office in Oakland so I still visit the Bay Area often. I can tell you first hand in my position for the last 9 years I have experienced numerous examples of the engrained sense of entitlement when it comes to dealing with some employees in the state of California.

Case in point, when dealing with hazardous chemicals as we do it’s important to ensure you follow established safe work practices and are using the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) after all they don’t call them “hazardous” for lack of a better description, some chemicals are very hazardous and can be life threatening.

I have actually had employees complain to Human Resources that they were offended or had their “feelings” hurt because I had the audacity to do my job, because I reprimanded them after witnessing them not utilizing the appropriate PPE while handling hazardous chemicals, for insisting they use the PPE the company has trained them to use and provided to them. The truly amazing thing is these same employees would be the first to call an attorney and sue the company out of business if they were injured on the job, yet they complain to HR when I call them on not utilizing the appropriate PPE to protect their own health and safety?

The company I work for has several locations in the western United States, however it’s only in our two California locations that I run into this level of entitlement. I always stress to our employees that safety is a two-way street, the employer has the responsibility to provide a safe work environment free from known hazards to its employees, therefore the company does all it can to manage (minimize or eliminate) known hazards through the development of a sound EHS program, but equally and no less important is the employees responsibilities for EHS, and that is for the employee to work safely within the environment provided, e.g., they are responsible for following established safe work practices and utilizing the appropriate PPE.

Yet it is obvious in my experiences (particularly with employees based at our California locations) that these employees want all the rights (entitlements) but refuse to live up to the responsibilities that go with these rights, and most of us (with the exception of many on the left) know with rights come responsibilities, but not in California, they want their cake and eat it too!

There was one employee in particular at our Oakland facility that was a true piece of work; this person optimized the California “entitlement attitude.” In fact IMHO he was the poster-boy for such an attitude.

I’ll try to sum up and hit the highlights of this particular employee:

1) He lied on his employment application, when applying for a truck driving position (a position that requires a Commercial Drivers License and a Hazardous materials endorsement for transporting hazardous materials) he said he was never convicted of a DUI, yet when his driving record was pulled he previously had a suspended license for DUI and had just recently had his driving privilege reinstated. Had he just been honest on the application it would have indicated his honesty, this should have been a big red flag to HR, but it was ignored.

He was hired despite having lied on his application (I must note here I was not employed with the company when this person was hired, had I been he would never would of been hired in the first place).

2) I started with the company in 1999 and during this time the person in question had the following incidents:

- Got into a physical altercation with a driver while delivering goods at a customer’s facility; the customer called to inform us he was no longer allowed on the premises.

- Approximately 3 months after the above altercation he had another one at a different customer’s facility and again was banned from their facility.

- He was delivering chemicals to another customer and grew impatient having to wait for a loading dock to become available and unloaded his containers of hazardous chemicals in their parking next to a drain. Once again the driver was banned from their facility as well.

- He had been given verbal warnings, write ups, and suspensions by me several times and was not given a penny of the annual safety bonus we award to our safe employees, to which he pulled out the race card and in no uncertain terms implied I was racist because he did not receive a safety bonus and had been given three days suspension without pay.

I should also note here that area managers and supervisors maintain a log to note when employees do positive as well as negative things in regard to EHS, I am based in our Arizona facility and my notes on this individual filled at least 10 pages in my book despite the fact I was present at the Oakland facility only once every three months. I must also note that I had requested this individual be terminated numerous times but was rebuffed by the facility VP/GM.

The final nail in this guys coffin was when I received a notification from California DMV (we are required by the State of California to monitor CDL driving records) that this employee had been cited for another DUI and could only drive for work purposes until his DUI case had gone through the court system. He was questioned about this when I informed corporate and came up with a bunch of BS, ensuring HR it was all a misunderstanding and that the case would go his way.

He was asked to keep us appraised of the situation and any additional changes in his driving status, which of course he never did, in fact it wasn’t until I received another notification from the DMV that his case had gone through the court system and his drivers license had been suspended (including for work related driving) that we realized he had been driving on a suspended license for two weeks because he never informed us (as we had requested) that he was convicted of the DUI.

He was finally fired, but here’s where the insult to injury really comes in, this person (again the epitome of the entitlement attitude) actually had the stones to go to the California Employment Board to request a hearing as he claimed he was unfairly fired. Of course we had ample documentation detailing his many issues from the time he was hired until his ultimate firing, so much so that even the ultra-liberal California Board of Employment could see his firing was anything but unfair.

It is no wonder California is losing so many businesses and along with it its tax base to pay for all of its entitlement programs. Businesses continue to leave the state in droves due to the costs of all the entitlements the liberal California government bestows on its growing nanny-state citizens. Yet despite the fact the state is collapsing under the enormous weight of all its entitlement programs the liberal California government continues on its course to ultimate economic collapse because (IMHO) their egos will not allow them to admit their liberal socialist dogma doesn’t work and will ultimately fail.

Unfortunately many Californian’s are moving to Arizona and I can already see the political tide changing, if it keeps going this way I may again have to flee to another state!

I consider California my home state, its where I grew up and went to College. The problem with California is two fold, besides what was mentioned by see-dubya. The first is California is really three states forced into one…South, Central, and North, ( four if you want to make the bay area a Rhode Island ). The second is the conservatives and Republicans are not organized. They have the winning argument, but they are waiting for people like Arnold to carry the water. In many cases the conservative tribes have so much in-fighting that the socialist party ( the democrats ) divide and conquer. But really, I think if California is broken up into four states, many things would take care of itself.

Conservative Voice on February 24, 2008 at 2:24 PM

With all due respect, Arnold is a classic RINO. He’s all talk, and most of that talk is meant not to antagonize the majority of liberals in the state.

Totally agree about the wineries. There are some really nice ones around Ramona and Julian nowdays. Local wines are very good.

I recently read a study about the changing population in San Diego county, the best estimates are that in 2005, about 19000 people moved out. They were mostly white middle class workers who could not compete with mexican labor anymore. About 15000 moved in. They were mostly mexican immigrants. It isn’t making things better. I see BC, (Mexican) license plates everywhere now and they are killing people on the road en masse. The other morning, I woke up to the news on the radio that three pedestrians were killed in one hour on San Diego streets. I have seen morons trying to fix a broken axle in the fast lane of the freeway in full speed traffic. I have seen 15 matteresses duct taped to the back of a mini pickup with a donut spare tire, swaying down the freeway at 75 mph. Oh, and my favorite, in Beverly Hills one time, I saw a fairly new gold mercedes,..dragging a muffler.

Living in California I can tell you one thing, the people are just dumb

right, that’s why it’s the 7th largest economy in the world and 17% of US GDP

The second biggest is California immigrants. They leave CA because it is so screwed up. What do they do when they get here?? Try to make AZ the same as CA. They seem to forget why they left CA. Please save us from CA immigrants.

oh please, “zonies” overun San Diego in the summer

main dif between Arizona and Socal? Pacific Ocean

Windansea is one of the coolest beaches and surfspots anywhere, lived there for 15 years, don’t expect to get mahy waves there if your are not a local, especially if you are a zonie kook riding a sponge :)

here in San Diego county, there is on sizable track development here, San Diego Country Estates,

I wouldn’t call SDCE a tract, most of the houses there are custom designed, my parents retired there. Nice golf course, riding stables, and tennis club.

Me..I bailed out 5 years ago and live near Puerto Vallarta Mexico. rediculously low property and income taxes, lower cost of living in general, excellent fishing, comely senoritas and cold margaritas.

My only regret is the Nevada border wasn’t placed 60 miles further west, so I could avoid CAs income tax.

The biggest problem I’ve experienced when visiting mexifornia is the chainlink & barbed wire! dividers on the highway so the ultra-rich, inbred liberals aren’t inconvenienced by tragic collisions with border hopping illegal immigrants whilst driving to their ultra-rich, inbred, gated communities to write six digit checks to ‘pelosi-ize’ the nation and encourage more border hopping illegal immigrants.

Perhaps this is where silky ponied obamanators, et al, get this notion of ‘two americas’. You get more of what you pay for….

dish on February 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM

According to them” all debate is over”. I was not even sure when the debate happened. These nut cases have drunk so much global warming cool aid. It would be a hate crime to question their religion. You would be branded as intolerant and have to pay an additional carbon tax. They not only assume it was caused by man. They have been able to figure out which men. It turns out the men who caused it are all republicans and conservatives. So the solution to this problem is for the State to commit economic suicide so we can pay for their sins. This may sound like flawed logic, but if you live in Berzerkly it makes complete sense