tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post4031203255144876970..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Interesting times for the Democratic Party in CaliforniaPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-23825983893934989782017-01-24T13:21:10.473-06:002017-01-24T13:21:10.473-06:00Around 2000, CA imposed a yearly 10% surcharge on ...Around 2000, CA imposed a yearly 10% surcharge on incomes above $1M. There were 15k in that category, and 1/3 of them bailed out of the state. IIRC, they have done this, in smaller increments, twice, again.<br /><br />A perfect example of moronic levels of thinking in financial matters.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722792638246578812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-27846845714636060472017-01-24T09:06:47.672-06:002017-01-24T09:06:47.672-06:00Keep quiet and give those folks a bigger shovel!Keep quiet and give those folks a bigger shovel!Billllhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13913354887560267235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-13710832881437706092017-01-24T01:57:03.235-06:002017-01-24T01:57:03.235-06:00Start stockpiling popcorn, it's going to be a ...Start stockpiling popcorn, it's going to be a long - and interesting - show. <br /><br />California has enough wealth for the festivities to continue for a while. Right until they don't. Reality can be defied as long as the money holds out, at which point the serious whining for an Uncle Sugar Bailout will commence. A Trumpian assault on Hollywood Accounting may accelerate the fall, but probably not signifcantly enough to notice. Farming in the central Cali strip will probably survive - that's where the dirt is - but availability of water will be an issue; businesses, however, aren't confined to well-irrigated dirt. At somepoint biz migration will force a tipping point. <br /><br />As for a "California Re-Org" a better division would be the 50-mile-deep coastal strip vs everything else. And, bring your passport.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-86824116736134743332017-01-24T00:01:04.511-06:002017-01-24T00:01:04.511-06:00While it is tempting to see the election of Trump ...While it is tempting to see the election of Trump as a turning away from Leftist politics, there is another explanation that bears consideration. Both major parties saw strong efforts to nominate somebody outside the Party establishment. The Democrats stifled their 'nominate an outsider' movement, picked a 'reliable' insider hack....and lost the general election to a Republican outsider. What if Trump's election is lead a rejection of Democrat politics-as-usual than it is a rejection of ALL politics-as-usual?C. S. P. Schofieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307088118631856756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-11689096703751442172017-01-23T19:29:45.868-06:002017-01-23T19:29:45.868-06:00Maybe Sanders can also help change the new 'pr...Maybe Sanders can also help change the new 'prostitution' law California's governor recently endorsed. Governor is an idiot, I'm thinking. This move on his part is a terrible shock to one's psyche.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-36793733842539128422017-01-23T16:11:46.683-06:002017-01-23T16:11:46.683-06:00Did the Democrat voters turn away from the activis...Did the Democrat voters turn away from the activist progressive position, or was Hillary just too corrupt, even for Democrats?Ricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-12723225611818065512017-01-23T15:32:08.034-06:002017-01-23T15:32:08.034-06:00Trading California to Mexico for a good left hand ...Trading California to Mexico for a good left hand pitcher and some decent infielders has some interest to me. It would have to include a 99 year lease for the Navy and Marine Corps on their current bases.<br /><br />GerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-4882868859755853752017-01-23T15:28:19.233-06:002017-01-23T15:28:19.233-06:00One more indication of the coming California meltd...One more indication of the coming California meltdown... Can't pay their bills, companies are leaving in droves, and the tax base is melting away. Add that to their billions in arrears on various things like pension plans and it's going to be interesting...Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-48710003392276325002017-01-23T14:54:14.546-06:002017-01-23T14:54:14.546-06:00Partitioning CA into North and South has been sugg...Partitioning CA into North and South has been suggested more than once, but the State government won't allow it. Too bad. WL Emeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00092583484828593165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-3611240817888638592017-01-23T14:36:00.402-06:002017-01-23T14:36:00.402-06:00I suggest a partition of California into North Cal...I suggest a partition of California into North California and South California, with North California containing all the "red counties" in the north and east plus the 3-4 "light blue" counties that would otherwise make the partitioned areas discontinuous.<br /><br />TheOtherSeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07141473483312725136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-13901710331619736312017-01-23T13:58:54.894-06:002017-01-23T13:58:54.894-06:00California is toast, for so many left-wing reasons...California is toast, for so many left-wing reasons.<br /><br />Suggested new state motto: Moonbats are us!<br /><br />I'm wondering what it will take for sanity to take effect in the state. Maybe an actual secession? I'm thinking that reality will smack them upside the head fairly quickly if they do that.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722792638246578812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-36731092996247991922017-01-23T13:31:24.842-06:002017-01-23T13:31:24.842-06:00This is very similar to what happened in Britain a...This is very similar to what happened in Britain after the last General Election: the moderate-Left Labour party that lost got hijacked at the grassroots level by lunatic SJWs who installed Corbyn, an unrepentant urban champagne Socialist, as leader. They're now unable to get rid of him and staring at a decade in the political wilderness. I speculated just after Trump's victory that Hillary's loss could lead to the Democrats thinking they weren't "radical" enough and putting a moonbat like Elizabeth Warren on the ticket.Tim Newmanhttp://www.desertsun.co.uknoreply@blogger.com