Hooray! Bankrupt California is now a one-party state!
So what has all this enlightened Democratic governance produced? Here’s one way of looking at it: The last month that California had an unemployment rate of less than 10% was January 2009. The last month its unemployment was lower than the national rate was April 1990. The 2010 Census marked the first time California didn’t gain a seat in the House of Representatives since basically ever. For the first time since the Gold Rush, a majority of California residents were born in the state. The ultimate migration-magnet in a nation of immigrants is just no longer so, however strange that may be to accept…
Well, that excuse is gone, as Scott Shackford pointed out after election day. From this month forward, let us gaze upon California for what it is: a living, wheezing example of unfettered Democratic governance. Progressives should be tickled pink about having such a nice, big demonstration project from which to showcase their superior economic philosophy. And the rest of us should grab popcorn.
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Leaving California was the best decision I ever made. I hated it there so much that I was willing to leave and commute back whenever it comes time to tour, write and record with my band. Working to convince my singer to leave as well.
jawkneemusic on November 14, 2012 at 8:37 PM
That’s how communism works.
Blake on November 14, 2012 at 8:38 PM
And, it has its own cliffs!
Fallon on November 14, 2012 at 8:39 PM
bankrupt democrat state. nope don’t believe it.
tom daschle concerned on November 14, 2012 at 8:41 PM
1 in 8 Americans live in California.
Nessuno on November 14, 2012 at 8:42 PM
No,no. California is great. Haven’t you seen all the commercials with the celebrities?
Rocks on November 14, 2012 at 8:43 PM
California’s proven track record of perennial reliance on Federal Government Bailouts means that her residents will never truly experience its economic decline on a day-to-day basis.
Thus, blue states like Illinois see California’s economic decline along with her dominant Democrat one-party apparatus, and they simply repeat California’s mistakes elsewhere.
That is why Senator DeMint said the following: :
56andwarmweather on November 14, 2012 at 8:43 PM
Yes and half of them are Mexican nationals.
CorporatePiggy on November 14, 2012 at 8:44 PM
Plus 1 in 5 Mexicans.
Rocks on November 14, 2012 at 8:44 PM
They’ll expect to be bailed out by the feds, and 0bama will be happy to oblige.
Count on it.
Rebar on November 14, 2012 at 8:44 PM
The article says the Latino electorate was up from 18% in 2008 to 23% in 2012. There are now five percent more legal Latino voters in California than there were four years ago?
Alana on November 14, 2012 at 8:50 PM
Is that the excuse for wishing ill on so many fellow Americans? That we aren’t Americans really, but Mexicans? Please.
There’s just something morally bankrupt in the idea cheering for harm to come to so many Americans.
Nessuno on November 14, 2012 at 8:53 PM
No. This is one of the biggest fallacies about exit polls. You can make some claim of increased number of votes based on the percentage voting when the number voting in total has gone up. When the total has gone down, like this year, you can’t really make that claim. If 5% less whites vote from last election and Latinos only go down by 2% then the percentage of the total vote that is Latino will go up. That despite the fact less Latino’s voted.
The black vote in Ohio jumped to 15% in exit polls but blacks make up only 12% of the population. For that to happen it means less whites voted.
Even with the overall vote going up it’s not automatic a higher percentage from one group means their percentage of the population went up. At best only 60% of eligible voters vote so there are plenty existing voters to account for any increase. Latinos stand out because their population in general is increasing faster than every other group.
Rocks on November 14, 2012 at 9:02 PM
Hey, Nessuno: You know what’s bankrupt? California. Lulz!
They elected decline and deserve what they get.
Punchenko on November 14, 2012 at 9:04 PM
Yep, but cheering the misfortune of others is indefensible.
Nessuno on November 14, 2012 at 9:06 PM
Did this happen on this thread? Because I don’t see it.
Rocks on November 14, 2012 at 9:09 PM
L.I.B.
CW on November 14, 2012 at 9:10 PM
A bailout of the welfare state to the west requires house approval. Ain’t happening.
Bensonofben on November 14, 2012 at 9:11 PM
It’s really amazing how quickly CA has turned so deep blue. Pete Wilson and Prop 187 were not that long ago. And we even elected Arnold (his failures aside) over a solid liberal.
MikeknaJ on November 14, 2012 at 9:13 PM
And, 1/3rd of the ALL of the nation’s welfare recipients live in California.
Resist We Much on November 14, 2012 at 9:16 PM
Ah, libs doze off in the middle of conversations and then assume that anything you said past the point where they were distracted by shinyness was probably racist.
Axeman on November 14, 2012 at 9:19 PM
Are you kidding? Arnold provided the ski poles on your downhill run.
Sometimes I think that some people who prop themselves up as “fiscal conservatives” really don’t know what they are talking about.
Axeman on November 14, 2012 at 9:21 PM
It’s kind of like France…total Leftist control. Everything they’ve ever wanted has been delivered. Heaven on Earth is here!
Let’s see how it works out. Lower and middle-income to be hardest hit, as usual.
visions on November 14, 2012 at 9:22 PM
Not cheering really, but California is about to become on of those ships Barky was talking about, the ones that go underwater.
No one said democracy was pretty.
CorporatePiggy on November 14, 2012 at 9:26 PM
Did you even read what I wrote? I never said Arnold was a success. I was talking about the election and the fact that CA even voted him in – as a supposed Republican – in the first place. Obviously once in office he was terrible. But my point was that it wasn’t long ago when Republicans could get elected to state-wide offices.
MikeknaJ on November 14, 2012 at 9:26 PM
Ordinarily I’d agree, but this is what they want. They voted for more of it. NO BAILOUT for them. No more punishing the responsible states and and rewarding the irresponsible ones or we really will secede, dammit. If the Republican ones want to move here they’re more than welcome, but Democrats are not.
juliesa on November 14, 2012 at 9:31 PM
They should implement an “exit tax” in California, requiring a payment of 50% of assets each time somebody leaves the state.
First it can be applied to permanent exits, but eventually ramped up to be collected each time one of them leaves the state at all. They’re so fond of taxes, I would imagine they’d like this.
gregbert on November 14, 2012 at 9:32 PM
Will CA repeal prop 13? That’s the question. It will get interesting if that happens.
visions on November 14, 2012 at 9:36 PM
Burn
CW on November 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM
Thanks, rocks!
Alana on November 14, 2012 at 10:05 PM
But that’s what you’re doing. It should be obvious to any reasonable person that America triumphed because of individual liberty and free markets.
You and your ilk are voting to deprive us of the freedoms guaranteed to us in the constitution. Economic freedoms that allowed us to prosper. YOU’RE the one cheering for harm. YOU’RE the morally bankrupt among us.
All we wanted was for you, your socialist tyranny and your nanny-state authoritarianism to leave us alone.
And the irony of it all is that all those welfare, food stamp and disability recipients that voted for Democrats aren’t doing it because they believe in the calling of Karl Marx. They’re just following the same laws of free will and self-interest that Democrats demonize.
hisfrogness on November 14, 2012 at 10:19 PM
Or an Executive Order. When was the last time Obama listened to Congress?
Oh yeah, never.
Left Coast Right Mind on November 14, 2012 at 10:24 PM
The next time a pundit talks about “evolving” and that the Republican party now needs to embrace amnesty, point at California and tell them “that” is what we’re trying to stop.
moonsbreath on November 14, 2012 at 10:32 PM