Your votes make clear that you are not my “fellow” Americans. Your votes make clear that this is no longer the country that I felt patriotism for. I am liquidating every asset that i reasonably can, hiding the proceeds, and I intend to become a taker of “entitlements” on the greatest scale that possibly I can.

That, and I enjoying the suffering of Obama-voter types wherever and whenever I can.

M240H on November 11, 2012 at 4:18 PM

Been doing exactly that since George Bush signed the school bill with Ted Kennedy as his first act as Prez in 2000. You will enjoy the news more than ever before and be sure to see the local armorer.

With a close super majority, the fringe elements in the rat party will be able to push what they want or else. There are bigger differences between the rat factions than there ever were between most Republicans and rats.

I expect it to get almost comical as each group tries to get what it wants from an ever decreasing pie and fighting each other more viciously than they could ever do before – only now they will be feasting on each other.

There will be tons of collateral damage and will take generations for California to recover – we just have to avoid bailouts of their mess by everyone else.

Words of wisdom from Billybob

I didn’t say that- you don’t seem to comprehend that California receives only 78 cents of fed spending for each dollar of fed taxes it pays.

You don’t give tax dollars to California, but CA most likely subsidizes your state. And it bears the full brunt of illegal immigration so that people in other states can enjoy lower food costs around the year.

bayam on November 11, 2012 at 3:18 PM

Shut up liberal and man up to your liberal ideology… TAKE FROM THE RICH AND GIVE TO THE POOR! California should be crushed. There is no reason it should be successful with its nice weather and tech industries. It is too successful and all of it needs to be redistributed for the good of the country comrade! How dare you be selfish! Don’t you care for those of us without warm winter weather, and sandy beaches and rich movie stars? It is time for you to pay up and I hope you pay until you bleed! How dare you lord it over us for so long, you supporter of evil corporations and wealth! It is time for evil rich California to be bled dry until its dry husk twists in the hot dry winds of uncaring liberalism! MAY YOU REAP WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN!

/sort of sarc

We’ll just be burned.

Look at Spain and Greece. The people there aren’t rioting because they’ve realized that liberal/socialist governments always fail and they need to exercise self-reliance and embrace conservative/capitalist principles to survive. They are rioting because they want to keep their free stuff. They don’t want to be “self-reliant”.

The same will happen here. When (not if but when) the bottom falls out, people are not going to say, “Gee, maybe we should have voted for Romney.” Rather, like spoiled rotten children in a bankrupt, homeless family, they’re just going to stamp their feet and threaten to burn down the neighborhood unless the stuff keeps coming. And they will vote for anyone that lies to them and tells them it will.

Rod on November 11, 2012 at 3:43 PM

Sadly, this.

Liberals never seem to “get it”. Cambodia was suffocating people with plastic bags to preserve their worldview that those with Education (or eyeglasses) were “sabotaging” the Utopia that was just around the corner. It took an exterior invasion to put a stop to the killing that totaled over 10% of the population. The Liberals here on Hot Air have more chance of seeing the truth than your average hardcore Liberal. This is nothing to them, a “bump in the road”. Logic and reason are irrelevant to their fervor. They will continue till the whole mess fails, stabbing out at “the Rich” or those that flee or those who are Conservative or “counterrevolutionaries” or whatever the term will be.
Sadly, the innocent will die with the rest.

California was a reliably Red State until 1994.

What? Reliably red State? I moved to California back in 1977 when Governor Moonbeam was in office. The State assembly has been Democrat since 1971 with the exception of one year 1995-1996. They may have voted Red for governor and/or President, but without the assembly, the governor is just a eunuch.

I finally had enough of being taxed and moved to Colorado in 2000. I said at the time that California will soon start taxing people for the privelege of breathing. Now all those liberal bastards from the Bay area have invaded Colorado and turned it blue also.

People like DBear cry about those of us that don’t empathize with the morons that created the problems in California. Too freaking bad. Crack a damned book open and learn the fate of every nation that has tried the socialist tack that you want. At least you’ll have company in your wimpering because you’ll all either be poor or you’ll be the rich overlords. In your case, DBear, I’d be willing to bet that you’ll be on the lower end. But, you should be proud. You made a choice and that choice is what you’ll live with. Congratulations.

The Blueprint for the Liberalization of the USA lies in Prop 187:

“The People of California find and declare as follows: That they have suffered and are suffering economic hardship caused by the presence of undocumented immigrants in this state. That they have suffered and are suffering personal injury and damage caused by the criminal conduct of undocumented immigrants in this state. That they have a right to the protection of their government from any person or persons entering this country unlawfully.” ~Prop 187 (1994)

FOR: 5,063,537
AGAINST: 3,529,432

Proposition 187 included the following key elements[5]:

All law enforcement agents who suspect that a person who has been arrested is in violation of immigration laws must investigate the detainee’s immigration status, and if they find evidence of illegality they must report it to the attorney general of California, and to the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). They must also notify the detainee of his or her apparent status as an alien.
Local governments are prohibited from preventing or limiting the fulfillment of this requirement.
If government agents suspect anyone applying for benefits of being illegal immigrants, the agents must report their suspicions in writing to the appropriate enforcement authorities.
A person shall not receive any public social services until he or she has been verified as a United States citizen or as a lawfully admitted alien.
A person shall not receive any health care services from a publicly-funded health care facility until he or she meets the requirements above.
A public elementary or secondary school shall not admit or permit the attendance of any child until he or she meets the requirements above.
By 1996, each school district shall verify the legal status of each child enrolled within the district and the legal status of each parent or guardian of each child.
A child who is in violation of the requirements above shall not continue to attend the school 90 days from the date of notice to the attorney general and INS.
The attorney general must keep records on all such cases and make them available to any other government entity that wishes to inspect them.
The manufacture, distribution, sale, or use of false citizenship or residency documents is a state felony punishable by imprisonment or fine.

In November 1997, Federal Judge Pfaelzer found the law to be unconstitutional on the basis that it infringed on the federal government’s exclusive jurisdiction over matters relating to immigration. (Sound familiar?)

In this do or die battle that Denied all public benefits to illegals, The People won until the Federal Courts intervened for the Statists. Ever since that Ballot measure:
1. Illegal Immigrant Voter Fraud is up
2. Illegal Immigrant Felonies are up
3. Illegal Immigrant taking of Public Benefits are up
When you allow millions of illegals to stay illegally and vote illegally, even Bright Red GOP Orange County turns a bit more Democrat every day. This Federal Intervention in California’s Immigration crisis was literally the death knell of the GOP in the state…strictly a game of attrition.

Most importantly…If the States do not “Fix” the Federal Courts via mass impeachments or total elimination of the of all the Federal Circuit Courts (they are creatures of statute, not creatures of the Constitution) ….All immigration policy is irrelevant. Unless there is some less drastic solution…apparently the SCOTUS agrees that mass violation of our borders, our people, our property and our public benefits…is no big deal.

What turned Red California Blue in 1994 is slowly turning the USA blue today…The Blueprint IS CALIFORNIA…and the Dems know it…
- Don’t enforce laws
- mandate free benefits
- everything else is academic.

Goodbye Conservatism, Hello Democrat Supermajority

Strange bedfellows: It turns out that ultra-hot conservative talk show host Michael Savage is backing Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown for state attorney general.

“What can I say? I think he’d make a great attorney general compared to the other guy. By the way, who is the other guy?” Savage said, when asked why he chose Democrat Brown over conservative Republican Chuck Poochigian.

Savage, whose rants can be heard locally on KNEW-AM, is backing up his hot talk with some hot money as well. Savage Productions, which lists Savage as president and his wife, Janet Weiner, as director, has donated $5,600 to Brown’s campaign.

“You have to make choices in an imperfect world,” Savage said. “And this, this Machugian guy. (Like we said, it’s Poochigian.) I never heard of him. I don’t even know who he is.”

Poochigian has spent the past 12 years in Sacramento, first in the Assembly and now in the Senate. Doesn’t impress the president of the Savage Nation.

“Why bet on a horse that isn’t going to win? Why throw your money into the garbage?”

So how did the best-selling author of “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder” wind up backing a liberal once nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam”?

“People change. He changed. He has experience,” Savage said of Brown. “He started the Oakland military academy — that was a good thing.”

And Brown’s politics?

“He’s moved to the center, which is what this socialist state needs,” Savage said.

“So that’s about it. I’m sure you will spin this and make something out of it.”

Brown campaign manager Ace Smith would say only, “Michael Savage is one of 5,000 contributors to the campaign.”

As for the Poochigian campaign, chief adviser Ken Khachigian told us, “We have Bo Derek, they have Michael Savage — so between us, we’ve got the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

Who needs to spin after that?

I don’t know how anyone could trust Savage after that. If you do (and somebody must — he sells tens of thousands of books and draws the third-largest audience in terrestrial radio), I would really like to know why.

Fed will simply devalue the American dollar and currency devaluation is the most pernicious tax of all….it hurts everyone and simply delays the inevitable. It used to be that currency manipulation was the hallmark economic policy of third-world banana republics (see Argentina) and it says a lot about the people currently at the top….
powerpickle on November 11, 2012 at 9:32 PM

THIS

Is why I am holding onto my ‘non-gulch’ real estate. Despite it being at half the value it was five years ago, I’d dump it in a second, if I wasn’t sure of hyperinflation kicking in soon.

People who live off their life’s savings, fixed incomes etc. are going to be starving soon. I just hope I can keep paying property taxes as the crooks in government keep increasing those.

Is there anything we can do on the Federal level to make sure that Obama doesn’t give them a bailout when it all collapses??

MityMaxx on November 11, 2012 at 6:26 PM

Unfortunately, yes Obama could bail them out. Helicopter Ben Bernanke has already shown that he was willing to bail-out Obama’s fiscal mess and high unemployment by instituting QE3 (basically nothing more than currency inflation) and using monetary policy to make the overall US economy look good “on paper”. SO, all Obama would have to do is get Ben in the Oval Office, twist his arm a bit and declare that CA is “too big to fail”.

Ben, being a total shill for this president, will then use the Federal Reserve to buy all of California’s bad debt and hide it by printing money.

This is precisely what Paul Ryan worried about, the Fed will simply devalue the American dollar and currency devaluation is the most pernicious tax of all….it hurts everyone and simply delays the inevitable. It used to be that currency manipulation was the hallmark economic policy of third-world banana republics (see Argentina) and it says a lot about the people currently at the top….

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/10/rising-number-of-states-seeing-one-party-rule/

Step 1: Dig hole.

Step 2: Jump into hole.

Step 3: Dig deeper.

Step 4: Repeat Step 3 until hold collapses upon itself.

Step 5: Blame Republicans.

Well, this will certainly be quite the example of no-holds-barred liberal governance — if I lived in California, I would be seriously reconsidering my residence right about now.

I can’t believe that anybody with any common sense still lives there. I would have moved decades ago.

It doesn’t matter if it makes sense or helps people. It centralizes power and without a perceived(media)alternative, things are pretty well locked up.

@tom daschle concerned: Sorry I can’t quote from my IPad – but agree!! Limited $$ to the state works for me until we can escape from here. According to my neighbor, Prop 30 ( yet another tax that was using education as hostage) will also hit some taxpayers retroactively if they are higher income earners. Honestly, I wish I was out of this godforsaken place – guess that’s why I keep paying for my national accreditation in my field.

marinconservative on November 11, 2012 at 8:20 PM

Vote with your feet. There are jobs out there for skilled and competent people. Just don’t tell anyone in the state you move to that you came from CA. They won’t like you. :)