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#Calexit could make California the world’s sixth-largest economy. Will it happen?

Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 6 months ago to Government
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Idiots on parade. They neglect the fact the feds give them a boatload of money...they would lose access to the Colorado, would need a lot of desalination plants, borrow a lot more money, have a hard time going bankrupt (a major pasttime for their cities, and even their state seems rickety). Societies who fail to recognize their problems in lieu of living a fantasy seldom have a good end...


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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Don't say that too loud, I live in Communist Oregon. We are waiting for it. Also, the big one has 2 flavors, the California one (San Andreas from San Diego to San Francisco then exits to western pacific) and the Washington/Oregon one (Juan De Fuca plate/Cascadia Subduction Zone). The 2 are related but not directly connected, and may go together (which would be a really, really BIG One, or separate). Lets hope they go first, then maybe FEMA has more for us.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Exactly! They will run the numbers and realize they need to loot the other 49 states to continue their "enlightened" existence. They CANT afford succession.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would say Alaska would either go independent, or Canadian. Although Canada has it's own issues with socialism and restrictions.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    CG, I do not believe in the left/right thing either. To me, they each have an evil side, and rarely, a good side. But I would never take the label of "liberal". One of the fundamental traits is a desire to have no one use your money (or to even get money for nothing), and to tell everyone else why they have to pay, more and more. They also love to use the term "for the children". I'm done with their damn children.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Exactly, they love the system when it does what they want, and then they tear it down and burn it when it doesn't. You didn't see that for the last 8 years by the other side. They just took the punishment and waited.. now the shoe is on the other foot and they don't like it. Too bad, snowflakes...
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Easy, give back as we have been given to, annex Southern Oregon using eminent domain, and tell the rest to suck it up. The Obamanation has done that enough times. What goes around....
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Now wait a minute, look at the map of Oregons election results, and it is red, except for Multnomah and Washington and Eugene. You can carve them out for sure. However, that would end up making Oregon one of the richest states because it would eliminate about 80% of the 19 billion PERS debt, and a huge amount spent on freeloaders. The rest of the State has always been Republicrat/independent, and always votes that way. One of the great inequities, and is also a good example of why the Electoral college is needed. You have a concentration of freeloading looters in those three areas, and they elect more looters who always have some crazy idea of how you need to "pay your fair share", which always ends up being a bigger and bigger share and always goes to a small number of special people. That was why they tried Measure 97 and wanted to tax sales instead of income, they would get 6.5 billion they never explained what it would go to. It was going to go to PERS out of control debt. Needless to say, it failed because the rest of the state woke up to the charade and they didn't lie big enough to cover it.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is a viable reason to open up a mutually beneficial trade relation with Mexico. Arizona could easily run rails that lead directly to the Western Mexican Coast. Mexico could make serious money and pull themselves out of their doldrums. Perhaps the new jobs will keep their people from crossing into our country illegally (yeah, right),
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 7 years, 6 months ago
    It would collapse on itself in a year. Those libs can't control their spending and entitlements..wait until they have to foot the bill for their own military and power consumption.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 7 years, 6 months ago
    Who cares, California is close to a socialist state and has no business being part of the US. Maybe if high explosives were detonated along the San Andreas fault were could see the whole thing just slide into the ocean. Problem solved.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And those damn climate changing farting cows have the nerve to make signs like "Eet mo chikn."
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    More mental poison is distributed by the land of fruits and nuts. Coming soon : another natural disaster in the golden state. Take your pick earthquake, mudslide ,wildfire ,floods ,,drought all caused by to many of Bundy's cows farting.
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  • Posted by mminnick 7 years, 6 months ago
    This may have been mentioned before, not sure but what happens after the exit? It is entirely possible that a large portion of the population of California would want to join with Mexico, the original parent of California? They could agitate for a vote and win. Then CA is faced with the option of joining Mexico or retaining it Free State status ad a country.
    What happens if Mexico says the majority of the citizens of CA have voted to join the state of Mexico and send in Military forces to force the union? You can see how this plays out.
    I'm not sure such a scenario would happen but it could and the people wanting CalExit better consider it well before taking any precipitous actions and let their mouths talk them into something they can't change.
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  • Posted by bkeiber 7 years, 6 months ago
    Everyone. Something you may have forgotten is the fact that Mother Nature may take care of the California - West Coast situation. THE BIG ONE!.....a 9.5+ earthquake along the San Andreas and further north into Oregon, Washington would accomplish them seceding from the union. ;-)
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  • Posted by gsaunder 7 years, 6 months ago
    Let's first redraw the state lines. The majority of Libtards live within 30 miles of the coastline. Redraw the line at the San Andreas fault, everything to the east (which will someday be coastline anyway) becomes the newly formed State of Jefferson, while old California floats out to sea.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, heal thy selves with that wide open border I just know you're gonna have.
    Watch the Commune of California wind up as a Mexican state.
    Adios is all me dino can think to say.
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  • Posted by dukem 7 years, 6 months ago
    I have lived on the west coast in the subject three states (furthest left in all ways) for 50 years, coming here from Kentucky in 1965. I succumbed to liberalism once I served my military duty and was sucked into the maelstrom of northern California politics and lifestyle (not to mention Silicon Valley where I built a fair part of that environment).
    Only after coming to central Oregon (east of the Cascades) did I wake up and realize what a misspent youth I had.
    This last week has been terrible, since many friends (ex-friends) ask why I'm a racist and misogynist once they find out I actually voted for Trump.
    I think I need new friends. : - ) Somewhere around the original Galt's Gulch in western Colorado (although Denver is deep blue now).
    The Gulch makes it possible to withstand all of it, but I think I've reached the breaking point..
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  • Posted by gpecaut 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But if Panama restricted US ships, and with a majority of bleeding heart Liberals gone from Congress. I believe all we would have to do, like last time, is talk softly and carry a BIG stick
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  • Posted by IndianaGary 7 years, 6 months ago
    We can only hope! If they seceded, the US GDP would go up by 20%. If they take Oregon and Washington with them, Trump's wall should start on the California/Nevada border and proceed north. Nevada has too many California immigrants as it is.
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