Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, November 03, 2010 7:45:45 PM
This entry is especially for my fellow Californians and former Californians.
Is it time to leave California? Are the reasons you moved here, or stayed here once you were an adult, still in place? Family can move along with you, if that is what is keeping you here.
Let's take a brutally honest look at the facts.
1. Jerry Brown, who is anti-death penalty and in favor of neutering marriage, is going to be Governor again – unless something happens to him, in which case we'll have San Francisco's Gavin "whetha ya like it or not!" Newsom.
2. The state legislature will continue to be run by Big Government union-owned Leftist Democrats who pretty much do anything that the gender confusion and homosexuality advocates tell them to do.
3. The state will continue to get an influx of poor, uneducated, unskilled illegal aliens who don't speak English and will vote for the people described above, even if they do it illegally. Their children born here will do so legally.
4. Barbara Boxer just picked up six more years as one of our two Senators.
5. California will continue to attract welfare cases, since it didn't do the "Contract With America"-era reform, and won't do reform any time soon.
6. Proposition 23 was strongly defeated, clearing the way for excessive, intrusive regulations, fewer consumer choices, more jobs lost, and higher costs for energy and elsewhere, in the name of stopping global warming.
7. Proposition 25 passed, allowing a simple majority to pass the state budget. This means Republicans in the state legislature are going to have absolutely no power. The Leftist Democrats will pass budgets that claim to meet the constitutional requirement of being balanced, but will be based on cooked books and wild assumptions. Then, when the inevitable deficit appears, they will insist that they must raise taxes or children will starve.
There are some bright spots. The votes on the other ballot measures have protected and expanded redistricting in a way that could mean more power for voters instead of party hacks. The latest attempt to protect local funding from state raids passed, and other tax & fee votes were good.
Steve Cooley may yet win his race against Kamala Harris for Attorney General. If Cooley wins, Prop 8 may get more defense. If Harris wins, however, say goodbye to the death penalty, even though we just built a shiny new facility.
Given all of the above:
1. Taxes are going to remain plentiful and high. We may get more and higher taxes.
2. There will be more regulations, fewer jobs, fewer choices, and a higher cost of living.
3. Public education is in lousy shape and is going to get worse.
4. Roads are not going to be expanded and maintained as they should, as the envirofascists try to force us to abandon personal automobiles.
More and more, a better quality of life can be found elsewhere.
Is it time for tax-paying, law-abiding people, especially parents, to leave California?