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Jackeens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:16 PM Original message |
'Will California become America's first failed state?' (UK Observer, Oct 4) |
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Catshrink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. Unless Arizona beats them to it. |
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47of74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. These are the consequences of electing Greedy Oily Pigs |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
25. No, this is the consequence of allowing Dick Cheney |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
3. If California collapses, the US economy will also be dragged down with it. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:16 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. amen. 10% of the US lives in CA. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
4. "WILL"? It already IS! |
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virgogal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. One down,forty nine to go? Sad ! |
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Salviati (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
6. Washington will soon be on it's way if Tim Eyman has anything to say about it. |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:54 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Eyman's winter heating plan: |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
7. Take a look at Mississippi or Oklahoma and tell me again who has failed. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:16 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. What's going on in Oklahoma? |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
8. Very plausibly but from lemons come lemonaide |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
9. They should dig up Howard Jarvis |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
10. They cut their throats with Proposition 13. nt |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. That happened long ago |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:15 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. The only thing wrong with Prop. 13 is the ease with which commercial properties can be transferred |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
11. "Los Angeles now has a poverty rate of 20%" |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:17 AM Response to Reply #11 |
19. And the roads are bumpy. Can't we afford some repaving? |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. We got the same problem down here |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:33 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Yeah, SD's roads suck too |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
35. Obviously not. Nor can we afford new pipes for the water system. |
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texasleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 02:44 AM Response to Original message |
14. If this were about Texas, the thread would have 600 replies and 900 recs. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:53 AM Response to Reply #14 |
30. Might have something to do with that secession stuff? |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 12:07 PM Response to Reply #14 |
32. Give us back the fucking money you stole from California in 2001and we might cut you some slack. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
15. DC was the first failed state, Puerto Rico the second. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
20. Bullshit massaged by vultures |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:23 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. The kind of credibility that accompanies quoting Ken Starr. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:25 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. yup -- and Make Way For The Privatizers!!! Ever heard of Repuke Failure LIHOP? Anyone? |
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lolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. KEVIN Starr |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:45 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. . . . |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
21. On the list of failed fucked up states in the U.S., I think California is way down on the list. |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
29. You know what we call that around here? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 12:03 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. It looks like the journalist mixed up his attribution or, he did it on purpose. |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 12:17 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. whatever his name is, he doesn't now what the fuck he is talking about. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 12:57 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. The right wing whackjobs have to knock California. It's just part of their routine. n/t |
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