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Look at California – See America’s Future?

By Clash Daily / 17 August 2012 / 8 comments

Stirring thoughts, chilling warning from a guy who ought to know. Is California’s current predicament a forerunner of what awaits the entire nation if we end up with four more years of President Barack Obama?

Former Mayor of San Diego Roger Hedgecock:

I live in California. If you were wondering what living in Obama’s second term would be like, wonder no longer. We in California are living there now.

California is a one-party state dominated by a virulent Democratic Left enabled by a complicit media where every agency of local, county, and state government is run by and for the public employee unions. The unemployment rate is 12%.

California has more folks on food stamps than any other state, has added so many benefits and higher rates to Medicaid that we call it “Medi-Cal.” Our K-12 schools have more administrators than teachers, and smaller classes but lower test scores and higher dropout rates with twice the per-student budget of 15 years ago. Good job, Brownie.

This week, the once and current Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown had to confess that the “balanced” state budget adopted five months ago was billions in the red because actual tax revenues were billions lower than the airy-fairy revenue estimates on which the balance was predicated.

After trimming legislators’ perks and reducing the number of cell phones provided to state civil servants, the governor intoned that drastic budget reductions had already hollowed out state programs for the needy, law enforcement and our schoolchildren. California government needed more money.

Echoing the Occupy movement, the governor proclaimed the rich must pay their fair share. Fair share? The top 1% of California income earners currently pays 50% of the state’s income tax.

California has seven income tax brackets. The top income tax rate is 9.3%, which is slapped on the greedy rich earning at least $47,056 a year. Income of more than $1 million pays the “millionaires’ and billionaires’” surcharge tax rate of 10.3%.

Brown’s proposal would add 2% for income over $250,000. A million-dollar income would then be taxed at 12.3%. And that’s just for the state [...]

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disgusted demacrat

And I prey every day that God makes Ari. a state with a ocean view, it seems that everything Ca. does flows to the east..
- curious
  
  I grew up in Kommiefornia…from the 1940s.Then it was a great state to live in.Quality of life,education,personal freedom were #1.Most of us boys (and some of our sisters) were given our first .22 rifle or shotgun when we were 10-12 years old as a right of passage.THEN in the mid-late 50s,the easterners started moving west to get away from the cold weather.They brought with them their mis-guided ideas on government.They brought with them their gun laws.They brought with them their unique brand of patriotism.Since then,the West was lost.A boy in the fields with his shotgun and a dog will result in a SWAT action.Honor our Vets with a cross…nope,take it down!No one fails.Even if you didn’t win.Spread the wealth-especially if they didn’t work for it.Feel sorry for illegals,even if they broke the law and are sucking resources from your family.After all-you worked for it,I didn’t.Etc.,etc.So,DD…I believe that you might have it backward.By the way,I don’t know if it was intended,but the way prey is spelled,it means the victim.Perhaps you meant to spell pray,which means to beseech God.
CherryAnn1000

I live just north of Cally in Oregon, and what was once a wonderful place to live is no more thanks to the influx of Callys in the 70s and 80s. The above narrative describes our own state very well. Run by Dims for the last 30 years in both the state house and legislature until 2010 when finally some districts voted in Republicans instead of the usual. It’s pretty sad when the Dims have no one to run for gov but a previous has-been gov that derided our state when he left. They couldn’t find anyone else to run against Chris Dudley, former NBA player, so they brought back the man affectionately referred to as “Dr. No,” for his constant refusal to sign any bills presented to him. This man is now serving his third term and just doing a stellar (not) job of it. Somebody, please, save us from this madness!
Sheila

An Ocean view would be lovely, unfortunately I have close relatives still in Calif. The good folk in Calif moved to Arizona and the democrats moved north to Oregon and Washington to ruin those two states. Arizona is still the wild west and except for the illegals, think for themselves and like to have guns. The Unions have a big say in California. There are few there paying taxes and millions on the dole. It was once a great place to live, even with the earthquakes. Now it has become mostly Mexico, or Russia…take your pick. I remember when California voted Republican almost all the time…..Wherever the Californians moved they were quick to replace their license plates as the natives did not welcome them.
ste1021

There once was a green and golden state called California where everything was possible. Then one day it started to change. All of a sudden it was filling up with the poorest, least educated in the world. Infrastructure, especially schools, couldn’t handle the influx and began to crumble. Taxes were raised to support these people. Standard of living and quality of life suffered. Many productive tax payers left. California now has a 16 BILLION dollar deficit. Don’t let this happen to your state.
Missing

I still think if you got rid of all the voter fraud California would be a conservative / republican state. The illegals just overwhelm the ballot box!
4scheuer

Your addition is wrong…9.3 + 2 is 11.3, not 12.3 but the point is still understood.
Dodie1990

When over half get a gov’t check it is too late. Everyone wants more. It will happen everywhere. Too late. This is why democrats win, more freebies for everyone.

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