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mat-ty
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| coachg wrote: | Iso’s, I’m honored to make it to your hall of fame. But honestly, I still don’t get it. There have always been crazy people like you standing on the street yelling that the world is coming to an end. So far it hasn’t happened. I ignore them like I ignore you. I’ve lived through liberal & conservative presidents & congresses. Nothing has changed. Life goes on & the deficit goes up. I take care of my business, plan well, adapt to whichever useless government is in power by utilizing conservative rules or liberal rules. In the large scheme of things, they are both the same; hypocrites. Extreme liberals are just as bad as extreme conservatives.
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Funny you would say People are screaming the world is going to end.
that's exactly what the little airhead said....12 years we're done.
Why does conservative media focus on her????? because she is the leader of a new movement on the left.....SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT |
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MalibuGuru
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| It's about time for Sharia law in America. |
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boggsman1
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| 432" for the season, 35" more coming this weekend...bitter cold... Best place to be this weekend, anywhere is Squaw Valley USA....have a nice weekend knuckleheads! |
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coachg
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| vientomas wrote: | OOhhhhh no! Big bad Iso and his "killfile" strikes again. Shivering in my booties from the tactics of the supreme narcissist.
Here ya go Iso, I'll quote Coach and hopefully end up in your "killfile" as well:
"I understand conservatives do not like her because she is not a male, not white & not a great-great-grandpa..."
And don't tell me that I already am in your "killfile", as I have seen you respond to my posts.
Buh BYE  |
I'm just surprised it took so long for me to get on his killfile. Iso's is so mentally & emotionally unstable it is just too easy to push his buttons. I needle him when I get bored. Kind of like teasing a cat with a laser. It is mean, but it is sooo much fun.
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KGB-NP
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MalibuGuru
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There are very evil people running our states and Congress. |
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techno900
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| Quote: | California’s $77 Billion High-Speed Rail Project Crashes Into Reality
FEBRUARY 13, 2019 By Inez Feltscher Stepman
A decade ago at a college party in San Diego, I made a prediction regarding California’s then-much-ballyhooed high speed rail project, touted as linking commuters from San Francisco to LA in a way that allowed them to avoid LAX (always avoid LAX). Drink in hand, I skeptically forecast that by the time the California government got through with it, the project would have shrunk into a very expensive monorail system going in an endless circle around the agricultural outpost of Bakersfield.
Yesterday, the newly elected California governor, Gavin Newsom, announced that California had exceeded my expectations! Instead of linking the large populations of the Bay Area and SoCal, high-speed rail was perhaps going to manage a run between Bakersfield and Merced, linking approximately 150 miles where everyone has a car and no one will be the slightest bit interested in buying a $100-plus ticket.
After flushing away a cool $77 billion in taxpayer money, the first high-speed rail train will complete its inaugural run carrying Gavin Newsom, 50 reporters, and several cows.
Not to worry, though, there are always grander projects for government to attend to. Instead of running 400 miles of track through farmland in the Central Valley, Rep. Alexandra Oscasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal promises the same boondoggle on a bicoastal scale. Like the Donner party’s wintertime excursion, laying $500-million-per-mile railroad track can only be improved by cutting through the Sierra Nevada.
Newsom is framing the whimpering end of the high-speed rail dream as a boon for California’s neglected central agricultural region, to which a million guys in pickup trucks immediately yelled back at Sacramento, “Forget the train and turn on the d-mn water!”
Lest anyone forget, the California high-speed project was supposed to be a model for the country; a vision of an America where flyover country could be relabeled by Californians and New Yorkers as pass-by country. In his 2011 state of the union address, President Obama called for a network of high-speed railroads to criss-cross the country within 25 years.
It’s been almost a decade, but California hasn’t yet managed to link Bakersfield to Merced. While useless, that goal is at least more manageable, at least according to the governor.
Don’t get too cocky, though, my money is still on the Bakersfield monorail. The city should slap up a plaque at the sole station as a monument to government waste and incompetence. I’m sure Californians can get such a plaque made for a few million bucks. By high-speed rail standards, it’s a bargain!
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http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/13/californias-high-speed-rail-project-crashes-spending-77-billion/ |
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techno900
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Get enough liberals together and see what happens.
| Quote: | Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel
The perfect storm of problems Californians are ignoring
Californians brag about having Apple, Facebook and Google but ignore growing housing, pension, water and transit issues.
California is facing a perfect storm of problems, and chief among them is homelessness.
Californians brag that their state is the world’s fifth-largest economy. They talk as reverentially of Silicon Valley companies Apple, Facebook and Google as the ancient Greeks did of their Olympian gods.
Hollywood and universities such as Caltech, Stanford and Berkeley are cited as permanent proof of the intellectual, aesthetic and technological dominance of West Coast culture.
Californians also see their progressive, one-party state as a neo-socialist model for a nation moving hard to the left.
But how long will they retain such confidence?
California’s 40 million residents depend on less than 1 percent of the state’s taxpayers to pay nearly half of the state income tax, which for California’s highest tier of earners tops out at the nation’s highest rate of 13.3 percent.
In other words, California cannot afford to lose even a few thousand of its wealthiest individual taxpayers. But a new federal tax law now caps deductions for state and local taxes at $10,000 — a radical change that promises to cost many high-earning taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.
If even a few thousand of the state’s 1 percent flee to nearby no-tax states such as Nevada or Texas, California could face a devastating shortfall in annual income.
During the 2011-16 California drought, politicians and experts claimed that global warming had permanently altered the climate, and that snow and rain would become increasingly rare in California. As a result, long-planned low-elevation reservoirs, designed to store water during exceptionally wet years, were considered all but useless and thus were never built.
Then, in 2016 and 2017, California received record snow and rainfall — and the windfall of millions of acre-feet of runoff was mostly let out to sea. Nothing since has been learned.
California has again been experiencing rain and cold that could approach seasonal records. The state has been soaked by some 18 trillion gallons of rain in February alone. With still no effort to expand California’s water-storage capacity, millions of acre-feet of runoff are once again cascading out to sea (and may be sorely missed next year).
The inability to build reservoirs is especially tragic given that the state’s high-speed-rail project has gobbled up more than $5 billion in funds without a single foot of track laid. The total cost soared from an original $40 billion promise to a projected $77 billion. To his credit, newly elected Gov. Gavin Newsom, fearing a budget catastrophe, canceled the statewide project while allowing a few miles of the quarter-built Central Valley “track to nowhere” to be finished.
For years, high-speed rail has drained the state budget of transportation funds that might have easily updated nightmarish stretches of the Central Valley’s Highway 99, or ensured that the nearby ossified Amtrak line became a modern two-track line.
California politicians vie with each other to prove their open-borders bona fides in an effort to appeal to the estimated 27 percent of Californians who were not born in the United States.
But the health, educational and legal costs associated with massive illegal immigration are squeezing the budget. About a third of the California budget goes to the state’s Medicare program, Medi-Cal. Half the state’s births are funded by Medi-Cal, and in nearly a third of those state-funded births, the mother is an undocumented immigrant.
California is facing a perfect storm of homelessness. Its labyrinth of zoning and building regulations discourages low-cost housing. Its generous welfare benefits, non-enforcement of vagrancy and public health laws, and moderate climate draw in the homeless. Nearly one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients live in the state, and nearly one in five live below the poverty line.
The result is that tens of thousands of people live on the streets and sidewalks of the state’s major cities, where primeval diseases such as typhus have reappeared.
California’s progressive government seems clueless how to deal with these issues, given that solutions such as low-cost housing and strict enforcement of health codes are seen as either too expensive or politically incorrect.
In sum, California has no margin for error.
Spiraling entitlements, unwieldy pension costs, money wasted on high-speed rail, inadequate water storage and delivery, and lax immigration policies were formerly tolerable only because about 150,000 Californians paid huge but federally deductible state income taxes.
No more. Californians may have once derided the state’s 1 percent as selfish rich people. Now, they are praying that these heavily burdened taxpayers stay put and are willing to pay far more than what they had paid before.
That is the only way California can continue to spend money on projects that have not led to safe roads, plentiful water, good schools and safe streets.
A California reckoning is on the horizon, and it may not be pretty. |
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/28/hanson-how-realistic-is-californias-confidence/ |
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mac
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Just the most obvious flaw on Techno hating on California and liberals. California already has more than 1500 reservoirs. All the good sites are taken. We will lose about 1/3 of our de facto storage--the snow pack--due to climate change. People who favor simple solutions for complicate problems, and don't know much if anything, talk about reservoirs. There are perhaps 2 sites left in the state that would generate any new water--at tremendous costs.
George Skelton is one of the journalists that actually got it right. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-water-storage-california-20190304-story.html
This has been my field for about 40 years, what could I possibly know?
Most of the rest of the problems are the result of California's great economic sense--and largely unregulated baron capitalism.
Carry on./ |
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