'Editorial: Why Do The Socialist States Stay Socialist?'
By Editor (08/05/08)
Kalifornia is once again near bankruptcy, Massachusetts is just limping along, Illinois is toast, Michigan is in the same boat, New York pretends a lot, ....
Voters in each state have an opportunity to control a large aspect of their destiny. Those that don't vote just pass their destiny to others to decide.
Note: I said "Voters in each state have an opportunity to control a large aspect of their destiny." However if the candidates are full of BS or the voters are too stupid to understand what they are voting for it becomes a crap shoot.
My personal experience with Socialist states is limited: Kalifornia, Maryland, Oregon and Washington.
For clarity, I was born and raised in Oregon before it became Socialist, my contact with Washington was minimal and my Maryland experience was before I had a real clue about politics.
As for Kalifornia, I was in an out over some several cycles: 1963, 1975-1982 and 1985-1992...
Once upon time, California pretty much was what it was essentially it was imagined to be.
My brief stay in 1963 in Sacramento was apolitical and generally pleasant for a country bumpkin in the big city.
After my stint in the Army (64-73), I inadvertently landed in LA (coming from Tucson in 1975) and surprisingly generally enjoyed the stay. No matter how much I dig, I can't come up with an obvious political intrusion into my life. Water rationing was enforced for a seemingly good reason and it felt to be administered in fair fashion.
Then I stupidly went off to Baltimore.(1982)
When I finally escaped from Baltimore and returned California landing in Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley) (1985) things seemed pretty much the same. But as time went by taxes started to escalate and then abruptly California was broke and issuing IOU's to stay afloat. At that same time (1991) I was hit with a fabricated tax liability of some $16,000 that after much effort was disproved.
I suspect that somewhere in that general time window was where California evolved and truly became "The Peoples Republik Of Kalifornia".
On a training class trip by my employer in Arizona, I visited my ol' stomping grounds in 1999. Smoking had been banned and most bars and restaurants had been decimated. The Kalifornia tax base had also been decimated and Socialist idiots were thinking up new schemes to replace the lost taxes from bars and restaurants....
If I were to come up with enough money to buy gas to venture to San Diego or LA on a ~400 mile trip from Phoenix, once I crossed the border everything would be taxed and taxed and taxed...
So much for my history of Kalifornia.
The Peoples Republik Of Kalifornia has one of the most inflated costs of living in the USA. It has no cheap water for public use and electrical energy is becoming an elitist Socialist perk.
Follow the Socialist dream and you will suffer the same or more than The Peoples Republik Of Kalifornia!!
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