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At some point, the poor camel's back is going to give out and one of these thousand cuts is going to kill the golden goose. This is probably not the one, but pi

At some point, the poor camel's back is going to give out and one of these thousand cuts is going to kill the golden goose. This is probably not the one, but piling up misguided policies decade after decade is destroying a state that should be a utopia.

bsder 7y ago
And yet California is the 6th largest economy of the world and growing. And after purging most of the Republicans from the Assembly somehow hasn't had any budget issues. Imagine that. So, I'm still waiting for that inevitable exodus of Republicans from California so my housing costs will come down. I hear tell that Texas is your utopia. Could y'all hurry up and leave already?
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- _-david-_ 7y ago
  There is now record homelessness in California so maybe things aren't going to good. There is definitely budget issues. California's roads are close to the worst in the US. There are all sorts of issues with dams in the California. It is estimated to be $185 billion - $765 Billion (not sure why estimates are so broad) to fix all the infrastructure in California. If you add up all the debt by the California government and the various local governments it is over $1 trillion. The debt on pension alone is over $200 billion. If there are additional people leaving California it will be harder to pay off all the debt and pay for all the infrastructure.
- thrower123 7y ago
  Yet there's enormous homeless problems, with feces and used hypodermics in the streets juxtaposed with trillion dollar tech headquarters. Outbreaks of plague, typhus and cholera. Rolling blackouts because infrastructure has been so poorly maintained. People that make five and six times the nationwide median salary living in their cars or packed in with roommates because the housing market is so broken. If it wasn't real, nobody would believe it.
- Gibbon1 7y ago
  > And after purging most of the Republicans from the Assembly somehow hasn't had any budget issues. Imagine that. The Republican obstruction was the cause of California's continuing budget issues until the voters passed Proposition 25 which removed the 2/3 super majority requirement to pass a budget.

bsder 7y ago

And yet California is the 6th largest economy of the world and growing. And after purging most of the Republicans from the Assembly somehow hasn't had any budget issues. Imagine that. So, I'm still waiting for that inevitable exodus of Republicans from California so my housing costs will come down. I hear tell that Texas is your utopia. Could y'all hurry up and leave already?

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_-david-_ 7y ago
There is now record homelessness in California so maybe things aren't going to good. There is definitely budget issues. California's roads are close to the worst in the US. There are all sorts of issues with dams in the California. It is estimated to be $185 billion - $765 Billion (not sure why estimates are so broad) to fix all the infrastructure in California. If you add up all the debt by the California government and the various local governments it is over $1 trillion. The debt on pension alone is over $200 billion. If there are additional people leaving California it will be harder to pay off all the debt and pay for all the infrastructure.
thrower123 7y ago
Yet there's enormous homeless problems, with feces and used hypodermics in the streets juxtaposed with trillion dollar tech headquarters. Outbreaks of plague, typhus and cholera. Rolling blackouts because infrastructure has been so poorly maintained. People that make five and six times the nationwide median salary living in their cars or packed in with roommates because the housing market is so broken. If it wasn't real, nobody would believe it.
Gibbon1 7y ago
> And after purging most of the Republicans from the Assembly somehow hasn't had any budget issues. Imagine that. The Republican obstruction was the cause of California's continuing budget issues until the voters passed Proposition 25 which removed the 2/3 super majority requirement to pass a budget.