Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, April 06, 2011 7:41:13 PM
Gordon Engh of Mission Viejo
wrote into the Orange County Register:
My wife and I are third-generation residents and do not want to leave California. But we are now convinced that it will be necessary to leave if we want to maintain a good lifestyle in our retirement.
Moving to any of our neighboring states would mean a “pay increase” (less costs and taxes) of between 8 percent and 12 percent, over a 20-year retirement period. That could make a big difference in quality of life. We can always return to visit family and friends for extended periods.
Apparently the unions that run the state will stop at nothing to feather their own beds. We will not be here and will not needlessly endure limits to our lifestyle to pay the bill.
There are a lot of Gordons leaving California. He's right. The government employee unions own the Governor, the state legislature, and many local offices as well. They want to keep their unusually generous benefits and high salaries along with unusually strong job security. Those unions have a clear interest in growing the size of the government. Their answer to recession? Raise tax rates and impose new taxes in a state that is already high taxed! Working with environuts, victicrats, gender confusion activists, and racist illegal alien leaders, they make the state hostile to small business, property owners, taxpayers, parents, and Americans. As the responsible, independent, productive Gordons of the state leave, they are replaced with a Babel of illegal aliens gangsters with allegiances south of the border and accustomed to a culture of corruption, and others dependent on government assistance. The state can't continue to function this way.