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Old 05-15-2012, 09:20 PM   #1
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Default Laughing at California

Lesson in how to destroy a state. Feel good-ism run amok.

You can only have so many mandates before the entire thing blows up. Sad thing is that its the kids and college students that will bear the brunt of this. But I qualify my theoretical sadness because I entertain the idea that their education systems could be full of waste and inefficiency. It is California after all.
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and the other good thing is that Gov. Moonbeam and the other dems won't be able to blame the GOP. Because they can pass a budget without a single Republican. One-party rule.
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California has only its socialist tendencies to blame. The overall composition of its politics makes it the darling of the socialist republics. Soon it will surpass Massachusetts in terms of socialist tendencies.
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The state of affairs gives you genuine pleasure? You must have loved the last one-third of the Book of Mormon.
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The state of affairs gives you genuine pleasure? You must have loved the last one-third of the Book of Mormon.
Yes, schadenfreude. Look it up.
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http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson...-on-the-rhine/

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Right now the continent’s psychological problem is not that southern Europeans cannot pay the northerners back, but that they are often arguing that they should not have to pay them, as if those who lent are more to blame than those who borrowed. The Germans rightly know that if they were just to write off the debt, such magnanimity would only lead to the same disaster in another five years, as the southern Mediterraneans cited such largess as proof that the Germans were guilty all along of mercantilism and therefore finally evened up with their moral betters. For Germans, this serial blackmail is of course an impossible situation. Would you wish to be lectured by your poorer brother-in-law on why he should not have to pay your $1,000 loan back, as he critiqued your oh-so-conventional workaholic habits?

Again, it would be as if Californians would lecture Texans about why they must give the Golden State $16 billion to solve our current budget shortfall. And then to add insult to injury, we would offer a critique of exactly what is wrong with the Texan go-get-‘em mentality and what is right with the California laid-back lifestyle that spawned one-third of all the nation’s welfare recipients, with the highest paid teachers in America’s near-bottom-rated schools. How long would Texas take that? The answer is about as long as Germany will take that.
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