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Welcome To The Bubble State, Where Everything Is Unsustainable

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Submitted by Joshua Kraise via The Daily Sheeple,

Since its inception, California has always portrayed itself as the land of opportunity. Kind of like a dream within the American dream. It’s the California dream to be precise, and while it has taken on many forms over the years, the song has always remained the same.

That song preaches that anyone can become fabulously wealthy here. But unlike the American dream, the California dream does not demand effort, at least not in its current form. Instead, it offers low hanging fruit. It claims to be overflowing with opportunities, just waiting to be exploited. The grass is always greener here, and a new millionaire is made every day. So why not you? What are you waiting for? Anybody can make it big in the Golden State, haven’t you heard? You’d be a damn fool to stay in your podunk Midwestern town. Get over here already!

Of course, if you ask anyone who actually lives here, they’ll tell you the truth. The only people getting rich from the dream are the ones who made it up. They prey on the gullible masses who think they can move here and become movies stars, and tech CEO’s. But more importantly, this dream is the lifeblood of our vampiric state, and always has been. Like the myths surrounding the Great Wall of China, our foundations are layered with those who fell while chasing the dream. We owe our very existence to this ever evolving scam.

It all started with the gold rush. The first of our get rich quick schemes. As soon as word got out that there was gold in those hills, the rubes poured in by the thousands. The only folks who got rich were the ones who sold picks, pans and shovels to the miners at outrageous prices.

Then came the movie industry, which produces the one lie that never seems to die. There are always just enough success stories about talentless nobodies making it big, that the Hollywood machine will always have an abundance of starry eyed wannabes hoping to ride the gravy train to fame and fortune. Few ever “make it” of course, and the rest would be fortunate enough to get a second chance in the porn industry.

And who could forget the hippies? Ahhh the hippies. That one managed to suck in thousands angsty teenagers, who now make their living as either college professors or strung out homeless panhandlers, depending on who you ask. This scam was unique for it was not a get rich quick scheme in the financial sense, but in the spiritual and political sense. Hunter S. Thompson so astutely described them as “All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit.”

You might be thinking to yourself “But how do you house and feed all these gullible masses?” I would say, as inefficiently as humanly possible. Only in California would they build gigantic cities hundreds of miles away from the nearest source of fresh water, because the weather is just so darn pleasant in LA. Then they feed those people with crops grown on thousands of square miles of desert. Not even Las Vegas can hold a torch to that kind of madness.

And between the poorly regulated water supply and the sublime weather conditions, you have the perfect recipe for the marijuana bubble, which hasn’t quite reached its peak. There are plenty of folks who think they can show up and make hundreds of thousands of dollars growing pot. They’re in for a rude awakening once the plant is fully legalized, and Philip Morris starts growing Mary Jane in such vast quantities, that it cost half as much as it does now, and runs all these people out of business.

By the way, our water supply didn’t just make our sprawling dystopian cities a reality. There’s no housing bubble if you don’t have houses and cities right? While California doesn’t carry all the blame for the housing crash of 2007, would it really be the same without this state? I seem to recall that the price of housing was pretty stable in other parts of the country, while it was ballooning to ridiculous levels every year in California. Our state was practically the epicenter of the “house flipping” fad.

Do you see what I’m getting at here? California is the pump and dump state. The history of California is a cascade of overlapping economic bubbles and ridiculous lies, each one bigger than the last. It’s the only thing that sustains us. The get rich quick scheme is our oldest trick, and it has never failed suck up an abundance of money and talent that would have never arrived here otherwise. The ever-changing Cali graft continues to operate to this day, though it’s finally starting to get repetitive.

Everyone remembers the dot-com crash right? Call me crazy, but aren’t we starting to see the same thing now with all these startups? We keep hearing stories about these young nobodies making millions after selling their tech companies. It’s kind of ridiculous isn’t it?

It’s the next gold rush, and just like all previous gold rushes, very few people are making that kind of money. The vast majority of these new companies you hear about, fail miserably. Silicon Valley is not the easy money tech mecca they want us all to believe in, and yet, people keep putting millions of dollars into these companies. It hasn’t even been 20 years since the last tech bubble burst, and now we’re in another one.

You see the same situation unfolding in the real estate market. When someone buys a 750sq foot fixer upper in San Francisco for $1.5 million, or when sharing a room with three people costs $1,000 a month per person, one must wonder if another real estate bubble is being inflated courtesy of the California dream, whose hallmarks are blind optimism and blissful ignorance.

The tech bubble and the housing bubble were responsible for the greatest financial losses in recent memory, and now they’re both back with a vengeance, and they appear primed to burst at the same time. And when they do, you can thank the California dream, the most outrageous and pervasive scam in American history. The century spanning hustle that just won’t die.

 

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Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:05 | 6111861 knukles
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Forgot the aviation industry.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:28 | 6111937 knukles
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No.  CA was the original home of most of the early design and manufacture of military and commercial aircraft in the US.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:58 | 6112036 Deathrips
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Contractors of death, propaganda ollywood, pharma over the top.....

 

Bunch of retards begging for more chains!!!

 

Sounds like a dream to me.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:56 | 6112248 stacking12321
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"the daily sheeple", indeed.

the article sounds to me like, "waaah, waaah, i wanna be rich, too!"

yes, you can make it in california - i wouldn't say i'm rich, but i do ok for myself, bought 3 cheap properties on auction so far this year with the proceeds from my main business.

and no, i don't depend on government contracts or cronyism.

you have to be nimble, and hard-working, but it can be done; if you want to be a bread-and-circuses, football watching, EBT-spending citizen, then, yes, you'll get run over.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 00:40 | 6112452 Anusocracy
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Isn't there a movie with an uplifting storyline that's called San Andreas opening the end of this month?

Gotta see that one.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 08:05 | 6112929 Oh regional Indian
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California was always a fluffer state. Not natural, having as many people and industries and farming on a largely desert state.

Watch AZ and NM go down this route soon enough.

Agenda 21, trickle-in communism, common wealth (mmmmm!!!)...

The quenn that never was is coming to take her lands back and there very little one can do....

but if we did nto even do that little, we'll never know...

interesting stuff from just after BO's 2nd term......apropos...prophetic even..

https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/ps-2-cognitive-dissonance-an...

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 03:26 | 6112630 Simplifiedfrisbee
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Your stacking your trash high in the golden state stackling. Feed your bull shit to your ignorant california comrads. Another privledged ingnorant drone that happens to be wondering through space in oblivion to reality. 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 03:44 | 6112648 Perseus son of Zeus
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Exactly.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 18:19 | 6115227 stacking12321
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get back to me when you are able to express your thoughts in a coherent manner and we'll talk...

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:38 | 6111966 Butterflying
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My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do... www.jobs-review.com

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:54 | 6112019 silverer
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@New butterflying:   YOu're a lazy one.  Jeez, I made $18,500 working only 10 hours a week.  But wasn't working.  I forced somebody else to do it for me, and took all the profits.  Now THAT'S the way to run the business.  After all, isn't that the way scams work best?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:10 | 6112567 Down to Earth T...
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you described our government

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 09:14 | 6113100 greyghost
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you described our corporate leadership

OOPS see handful of dust below......charities also

and this knucklehead author's only view of the country is california.......small minded comes to mind

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:11 | 6111869 Handful of Dust
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The Federal Trade Commission, along with officials from every state in the country and the District of Columbia, announced on Tuesday that they were filing charges alleging that four cancer charities misled donors and stole nearly $200 million....

 

The four charities are the Cancer Fund of America, Inc., Cancer Support Services Inc., Children’s Cancer Fund of America Inc. and The Breast Cancer Society Inc.
The complaint claims that the charities misrepresented themselves by claiming to provide legitimate assistance to cancer patients, helping with costs for things like transportation to chemotherapy. In reality, the FTC alleges, the charities used the money for things like luxury cruises, gym memberships, jet ski outings and to pay family members' salaries.

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cancer-charities-bilked-donors-out-of-d...

 

Instead of monetary fines, how about finding the nearest tree and some rope.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:57 | 6112035 silverer
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I laugh now when I see high school kids at intersections shaking their donation cans for some change to help with the latest disease.  in the meantime, we just sent 100 Abrams tanks to the Baltic states to kill a bunch of healthy, innocent people.  Can you say "PROPAGANDA?"

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 01:55 | 6112554 OldPhart
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A kid shoved in a plastic container at a stop light asking for efforts in Syria, I took $100.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 23:25 | 6112305 Bazza McKenzie
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Hey, just like the Clinton Foundation.  Do they get charged too?

 

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:10 | 6111871 i_call_you_my_base
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It's the fed stupid.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 23:24 | 6112302 Spitzer
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Isn't Cali where they dumped all the queers in the middle of WW2 after they banned them ?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:28 | 6112561 OldPhart
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Careful, yes it was.

But gay-assed 'Uncle' Ray was in WWII, Korea and Viet Nam.  He's 95 and a bit peculiar,but still, god almighty awesome.  He was a pilot for 45 missions in Europe, and 35 in Asia.  Today, he's the kind of old guy that you'd beg to draw stories out of him just as he's telling them.  He's warm, funny, and the kindest man I've ever known other than my actual Uncle Troy.  I've known Uncle Ray since I was two (Oahu, Hawaii)...and I'm 56.  He knows that he is considered part of my family and can call on me, or my wife, unconditionally.  While he's independent (which I'll fully assist in) he has a bed in my home, if he needs it, full room and board, no charge, until he doesn't.  He already paid for it over the years of my life.  Saturday we took him on a simple trip to a store with things like 4 fer $0.99 and shit, he spent six hours going through the place with nothing but a shopping cart, no oxygen bottles, no nurses, no one constantly by his side if he farted in an aisle...my wife and I just did other things, though we did keep an eye on him in case he got too tired.  (Did you know that there are retail stores opening up that sell Ice and Water?)

DO NOT DISPARAGE WWII VETS. 

Ray has my lifelong devotion down to the tick of his dying wishes, whatever they are.  As the only American War Veterans that actually WON a fucking war since then, they remain sacrosanct.  Pick on someone else to your hearts desire.  Don't fuck over a WWII vet.

Shame on you.

I don't know how old you are, but WWII was the last war we actually won...and that was with a bunch of volunteered people that are still pretty pissed.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:10 | 6111872 Stoploss
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It's a shithole... Will never ever go back.  Vaca and fun can't seem to happen at the same time, always some sort of "incident" occurring every 5 seconds seemed like.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:23 | 6112579 Down to Earth T...
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Gov moonbeam is seeking legislation to change the spelling of the state to Kawleefornya. That would be a bit more PC and show solidarity and diversity !

 

And that is why I left there in 1974 and moved to Eugene,Oregon. It really is the land of the whacked and un-reality, concrete and pavement ! But it was a great place to grow up as a teenager before RVN. Been completely downhill ever since and I am very glad to have left. 

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:16 | 6111887 q99x2
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The more you bad-mouth my neighborhood the more I know that you wish you were here. But your're not. So F you.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:03 | 6112026 silverer
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By the way, can I have a glass of water, please?  Oh, wait...

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:29 | 6112589 Down to Earth T...
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sorry, all the water here is used in swimming pools . We are a bit retarded here in Kawleefornya and we are waiting for more cheap labor to move in so we can get rich ? In the meantime we will just pay higher taxes because we love taxes. Oh I almost forgot? we have the worse schools in the USSA ! which may account for why we are so fucking stupid here in KAWLEEFORNYA ?

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:09 | 6112066 ricky663
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I lived there (Silicon Valley, East Bay, Santa Cruz County) for about 45 years, so can speak to this.
Lived "the dream," i.e. made my way from High-tech employee, to High-tech entrepreneur/CEO/owner in California.
Had the large casa on the coast with 2 Beemers, motor home, boat, trucks, trailers, motorbikes, blond wife with biguns, etc. etc.
I would say the period from mid 80s-90s was the best. Lot's of cash flow, easy to get business, lots of tax write offs, etc.
Then, a lot of high-tech moved out of US to Asia, the competition became more fierce, state government taxation and fees became more onerous so I changed the business model.... I layed most everybody off and started using temps and outside contractors wherever needed. The result was a better bottom line!
Made the next step, and relocated to a tax free state, Nevada. Things were pretty good there too (no state income tax hassles, minimal state/local government intrusion).
After the 2008/9 MBS meltdown/fraud, we decided to take the next step,
and relocate to Asia = Relief! What an eye opener!
You begin to see what a "money sucking trap," the western system is. For
example, why is a stick built home so expensive there ? Why are you constantly under financial assault from banks, corporations, governments, etc?
Having a house there is great while it is appreciating. Here, you build a
brick house, and you are done (except for upkeep). Minimal taxes, no estate tax, no mortgage, etc.
Asia is "rough" and not for everyone. But for us, this system works fine.
What is your "pease of mind" worth? Do you want to run on the hamster wheel (work) until you expire?
I used to say "you have to be a millionaire just to survive in CA." My neighbor used to call it the "west coast riviera."
I have no desire to go back (except, perhaps as a tourist).

Someday you realize time is more important than money...

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:52 | 6112240 Babaloo
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Jim Rogers, is that you?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 01:19 | 6112510 CrazyCooter
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He's 5 years and 42 weeks ... fairly old school for ZH these days ... and I don't disagree with him.

Regards,

Cooter

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 23:00 | 6112256 stacking12321
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great post!

where did you move to?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 00:51 | 6112471 JetsettingWelfareMom
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Thailand then Vegas...

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 00:29 | 6112422 JetsettingWelfareMom
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Lived in LA for eight years that was enough for me. On the one hand I liked all the fruity nutty attractive people (at least as compared to the Midwest) who talked about their dreams and ideas and being proactive about life. Seemed like everyone in the Midwst was wallowing in some personal misery at that time, "My son's an alcoholic, husband's got cancer, my back hurts so bad I can't even get out of bed blah blah blah" stuff. I tried to be sympathatic to these things but I kinda had to tune out the poor me story after awhile, it just wasn't that interesting. Talking about trips to Thailand and business startups, now that's interesting!

Then I had a poor me happen--a bad breakup and nowhere to live in SoCal. What happened to my old California friends, the ones I'd ran marathons with and sang in choirs? Gone! I should have figured the 30+ taxi rides I'd taken to and from LAX, with nobody offering to pick me up or drop me off, should have told me that I didn't have a real friend there. Turns out you're either rich or homeless, and in LA, oddly, they live side by side and are hard to tell apart until the SHTF. I passed on the homeless type offers and the lonely rich guy looking for a live in fuckbuddy/massage girl and moved out of state (well, country) for awhile. I have no desire to move back based on what I'm seeing--California's like the bottom of the swirl on the toilet bowl going down the shithole even faster than the rest of the country. The smart money's been moving to Asia while the Asian's move absentee to Cali. The homeless have been pushed to Vegas and the State's been losing population for a long time. Too damned expensive and for what freedom? 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:40 | 6112596 OldPhart
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Look less than 60 miles North East of LA and you find the entirely opposite of LA,

That's whats facsinates me about So. Cal, you have the uber-elite-progressive/socialist/democrat in Lost Angels, yet, move a few miles inland and you have Home Town, America.  When you live here, the comparison is so outrageous that new comers actually are speechless.  Need to take a piss? In LA you have to buy something, get a token to the bathroom, or there are no public bathrooms available.  Go a few miles and "Shitter's to the left".

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:36 | 6112591 Down to Earth T...
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Well Ricky, I completely agree and also am living proof of every point mentioned ! Can there be the slightest doubt or question that we here in USSA today all live in massive illusions created for us by the corporatocracy !

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:16 | 6111890 Pancho de Villa
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The Beverly Hillbilly's were tricked into moving out there.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:52 | 6112238 GMadScientist
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By JP Getty

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:20 | 6111899 disabledvet
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The "Golden State" and why China called the USA "the golden country."

Back in the day we paid in gold.

Probably best show about Cali was Desperate Houswives there is so much money out there.

Hence however "the importance of the money itself."

That place is wildly expensive and makes Vegas look modest when it comes to gambling.

Wall Street's Dream Come True...a cash machine beyond anything the Gilded Age could ever imagine.

Interestingly tho "we're still broke."

The Gilded Age was far better off and wealthier than the USA is now...or probably ever will be...

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:20 | 6111905 Freddie
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California is a ruined shithole.  It was paradise until the east coast zio and mobster crowd invaded and turned it into progressive hell.  And how can people be dumb enough to have Pat or Jerry Brown for governor for probably a combine 30 to 40 years?   Morons.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 23:08 | 6112272 stacking12321
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the governor and cronies are irrelevant to my life, completely, i've tuned them out. i don't really care who is proclaimed "governor", why would you even focus on such irrelevant nonsense?

i happen to like california for the climate, the natural beauty, and the fact that there is some opportunity left here. yes it's getting harder and i'll probably move out at some point, but so what? enjoying it while it lasts.

 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 03:30 | 6112637 Simplifiedfrisbee
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Opportunity to those who are in position for further gains. Feed your ignorance to your children. I am sure they will love a high debt education at UCSD or UCSB. Worhtless

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 18:21 | 6115241 stacking12321
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yes, you are worthless, and so are your incoherent comments.

no, i don't have children. thanks for playing, though.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:47 | 6112602 OldPhart
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When I was 16, there was a day that I woke up in Death Valley (Furnace Creek), rode a horse to Stovepipe Wells, Skied in Big Bear (the first and only time) and later in the day, swam in the Pacific Ocean (I'm a desert kid, not a surfer) and got a $5 dollar blow job from a Santa Monica Pier girl.

Where else can you do all that in one day and in under $20?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 05:07 | 6112723 NordikAvenger
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Yeah, and somehow Ahnold was any better.  The state is ungovernable....always has been.  They take nominal taxes from you (especially after prop 13) and you still complain.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:22 | 6111908 crisrose
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...."They prey on the gullible masses who think they can move here and become movies stars, and tech CEO’s."

The masses aren't gullible - they're stupid.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:24 | 6111914 nmewn
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I take exception to this article.

Kardashians ass is completely sustainable with silicon injections long after the rest of her rots away, Jenners new titties however...

...well lemme think about that ;-)

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:42 | 6111943 knukles
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Hear ye, hear ye! 
Most of the rest of CA wouldn't have a problem if the LA basin disappeared tomorrow morning.
Throw in the once wonderful San Diego area along with and the rest of CA would be mighty happy.
That happened, we'd probably restrict immigration into CA to keep the rest of y'all out.
And for good measure, maybe SF would go right along with the other 2.

Butchakno, about the same story really with all major cities in the world.  To wit: London in the 60's and early 70's was an amazingly civil, heavenly place.  Today, nuffin' but a fucking Disneyland.  Same with Paris, etc.  Problem is too fucking many people.  All the rest of the maladies are but symptoms.

I support the Georgia Guidestones.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:13 | 6112082 shovelhead
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Save Blackie's and the Beach Ball on the Strand in Newport Pier.

I have a lot of my wasted youth invested in those bars.

Cheap drafts and picture windows to watch bikinis on roller-skates go by is a pretty unbeatable combination.

They should be preserved for future generations of hormonally charged wastrels.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:17 | 6112101 orez65
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"I support the Georgia Guidestones."

Then set an example by being the first to step into the "Termination Sphere"

That will leave us with only 6.5 BILLION (minus 1) human beings to be terminated in order to achieve the Georgia Guidestones "Nirvana".

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 23:38 | 6112334 STP
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We're talking about the brown breeders here, stupid.  I live in the High Desert, of SoCal, grew up in the Valley and was raised in downtown LA, and I can tell you, that the creation of 'Sanctuary Cities', by our dumb fuck politicians, have packed our cities to the gills with way too many Mexicans.   Every school is a giant traffic jam on in the mornings and afternoons.  They used this population and it's associated poverty, to grow the government at all levels.  These peeps need extensive guv services.  75% of the Los Angeles County budget is taking care of these fuckers.  Go ahead and look at it up.  About 23% to 27% is a spent on 'Police and Fire Protection, Health Care and Social Services!  The streets are totally negotiating and it's traffic jams everywhere.  I have an LA County Auditors report, from 2003 and we were going spending 172 Million Dollars A MONTH ON WELFARE!  So if you think every walking bag of gas and fluids on this planet is valuable, then you've got another thing coming.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:51 | 6112607 OldPhart
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Whereabouts?  I'm in Apple Valley. We might be neighbors!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 10:09 | 6113283 STP
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Littlerock, here, but I lived in Apple Valley too (Kiowa and Bear Valley).  It used to be a nice place, but like Palmdale and Victorville, got flooded with Section 8 dirtbafs.  We oughta meet up, sometime!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:40 | 6112597 Down to Earth T...
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and the illegal aliens? what about those millions ?

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 23:35 | 6112325 cherry picker
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Jenner says he is a woman but not interested in men, he is hetro.

I can see his kids now, "My father is a lesbian"

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:56 | 6112612 OldPhart
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It gets more complicated..."I'm a gay lesbian transexual bisexual woman."

Decypher that shit out and explain it to me, please, got that from an employee out of the blue and could only respond with,

"Uh, what does that have to do with you doing your job?  And what the fuck was it that you just said?  You lost me after gay lesbian transexual..."

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:05 | 6112565 squid
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I'm plagersing here but this quote is just tooooo good:

"Like I said, Jenner is the walking, talking allegory par excellence of the former United States and its culture.  You could not write this as fiction."

 

That statment is just so true.

 

Squid

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:25 | 6111920 XqWretch
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Give it back to the Mexicans!

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:52 | 6112009 EBT excepted
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it arreddy blong to da mescans...

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:42 | 6112598 Down to Earth T...
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they already did but are stupid enough to stay and pay to get fucked even more.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:59 | 6111944 shovelhead
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My California dream came true exactly how I planned it.

I hung around the beaches and picked up beautiful women. Bought a motorcycle and cruised up and down the State. Lived in my camper during the summer and worked through the winter and saved up to screw around again all summer.

Then something went wrong. I got married.

Been 31 years today, so I guess it wasn't that bad a deal.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:01 | 6112044 silverer
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Couldn't do it now without being charged with a felony or two.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:57 | 6112250 seek
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Assuming they even let you live post beat-down for being "homeless."

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 03:22 | 6112624 OldPhart
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1978...I worked at Disneyland in Anaheim as an Assistant Baker (after Marines).  Lived in a Ford Econoline, no A/C, on the Disney employee parking lot right in front of Space Mountain.  I worked something like 11-7am in the Disney Bakery.  The rest of the day was centered on getting the fuck out of the parking lot, one way or the other, and getting back to the parking lot later in the evening.  Summer temperatures were in the 100's, and no one in their right mind would want to be in a no A/C pice of metal at those temps.

Behind Disneyland used to be a Shakey's Pizza (might still be there for all I know), complete with roller piano, air conditioning, and girls with huge fucking boobs.  Guess where I spent my off time, hot fucking van or hot fucking Shaky's?.

Being at the bakery so early in the day, we got to see EVERY one else come into work.  Naturally, as a pretty young, testoserone driven group, we soon noticed (within seconds on the first day) that Disney hired some extremely HOT young wimmin to work.  We truly appreciated it.  And on my third day at Disneyland we all had lawn chairs and pogo-paddles with "10" on one side and "5" on the other.  The four of us sat on the lawn chairs and gave each lady passing a unonimous "10".  It went on over a week,  maybe a month, then one girl came back, pissed, "Why did everyone else get a forty and I get a thirty one?!"  We looked back and forth, then saw the last guy to the right, Darryl Gates, holding his sign upside down,  "Shh, that guy thought you were special so he held his sign upside down, he's sort of 'special' so don't hold it against him."  Guy on my right says, "I'm normal, would you like to go out iwth me tonight?"  She agrees.  An hour later we were in front of a Disney Exec telling us we were being morons and to knock it off.  "Ok, boss"

A week later, Darryl and I were transferred to DisneyWhirrled. Both of us got promoted three levels.  Darryl took $0.50 per hour reduction in pay, I got a $0.05 an hour reduction in pay.  In 1978 slavery was a tradition for Massa Mouse.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 03:41 | 6112645 Blano
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Great story!!

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:33 | 6111946 toady
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sus·tain·a·ble
s??st?n?b(?)l/
adjective
1.
able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
"sustainable farm's"
2.
able to be upheld or defended.
"sustainable definitions of good educational practice"

Lotsa "sustainable"memes lately... I'm thinking "they" are trying to mess with the meaning of sustainable purposely, to corrupt it so people will scoff when they hear it, or to trick people who hear sustainable = good.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:39 | 6111971 knukles
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Sustainable has just become another bullshit Progressive meme.  Twisted, applied for a specific evil purpose and disgarded.  Wash, rinse, repeat.
I mean fuck all, take a look at annual reports of places like GS and JPM with pages of platitudes about "sustainable" business.
Bullshit

"I have seen all the works of man under the sun; and, behold, they are vanity and fleeting as the wind."
                                                                             -Ecclesiastes 1:14

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:23 | 6112124 toady
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That's what I was getting at.... sustainable means my property has plantings that, if properly cared for, will provide nutrition for me mine. Sustainable = perennial.

Sustainable doesn't mean anything wall street, .gov, or these articles say it means.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:40 | 6111970 fremannx
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California is just a little bubble inside a huge global bubble. This analysis of the Anatomy of a bubble is eye-opening...

 

http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/anatomy-of-a-bubble-how-the-federal-r...

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:40 | 6111978 knukles
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Been said for years that as goes California, so goes the rest of America.
And we ain't an island anymore; it's a global "thaing."

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:43 | 6111986 Cityzerosix
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California, according to Wik apparently comes from a fictional account of an utopia peopled by Black Amazons written by Garci Rodruigez de Montalvo in 1510. There is, however, a California in Norfolk, England. Few bubbles here but plenty of froth from the North Sea. Sand dunes, a shop and some blockhouses masquerading as a holiday camp.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 21:53 | 6112014 blindman
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Tom Waits - On The Nickel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sILtO6LAEq8
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Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:04 | 6112050 Ignorance is bliss
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I recently landed in LAX, and then flew over Los Angles to my final destination. The city looked baked and beaten. The drought appears real and unrelenting. I respect the ingenuity to keep that large a population in water, but wow.. If the drought continues, eventually there will be an exodus of population.L.A. Will be a ghost mega-metropolis. Maybe the first of its kind outside of China.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 01:28 | 6112524 CrazyCooter
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There is a subtlety in all this that most people miss. The bulk of the population can't afford to move. They don't have family somewhere else to prop them up. They don't have savings. And when their gig is up, they are seriously looking at being homeless.

Folks forget how bad it was for many, many people during the dust bowl and depression. Nothing has changed, and folks were much more reslient back then.

If the rains don't come to Cali soon ... its going to be Kali.

Regards,

Cooter

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 17:12 | 6114983 Hope Copy
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Doughtful.. remembeer 'dry' shampoo.  They'll skip bathing, wash in 'recycled' water and put up plastic palms.  Then they wil reclaim water from the tail pipes of their cars.  Walt water baths; they all want to be blond anyway.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:32 | 6112161 shovelhead
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Funny thing about living in the desert. 100 years of wet, no problem.

A few years of dry? Goodbye.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:37 | 6112185 Mini-Me
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I can cite several reasons off the top of my head why CA is a cesspool: Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, Moonbeam Brown, among others.  They keep electing these shit-for-brains over and over.  And they overwhelmingly voted for the White House putz - twice!  

You get the government you deserve, and as Mencken once quipped Californians "are going to get it good and hard."

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:59 | 6112254 Babaloo
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Maybe we should vote for the politicians they have in Mississippi, or Alabama, or those brilliant right-wingers in Kansas.  Then we'd be just like those ignorant backwater dickweeds.  Yeah, that's the ticket!

Sounds like maybe that's where you got your education?  

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 23:31 | 6112321 Real Estate Geek
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Boys, boys, stop fighting.  You're BOTH right!

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 22:54 | 6112243 GMadScientist
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Why'd you skip the Okies during the Dust Bowl? It looked good to them too.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 23:07 | 6112269 armageddon addahere
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If it's too good to be true we want in on it! (American motto)

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 23:08 | 6112273 TomGa
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I'm getting tired of the rain we keep getting in the East.  My damn carport flooded yesterday!

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 23:54 | 6112355 Dutch
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One good thing we have is Howard Jarvis' Prop 13. The takers and confiscators absolutely hate Prop 13, and have been trying to find ways around it or to abolish it for decades. Prop 13 is great for its own sake, and for the entertainment value of watching the "do-gooders" get their panties twisted over it. A two-fer in my book.

Find a home, live in it for a long time, and let the property flippers pay almost all the darn property taxes.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 09:54 | 6113230 greyghost
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so true dutch. prop 13 was passed to keep the old folks in their homes. by the late seventies most seniors were paying more in property taxes every year than they paid for their house. by 1984 prop 13 cuts in real estate revenue to the counties had already been made up and then some. the reason being is california has such a high turn over of real estate that the benefit of lower real estate taxes resets at the new higher rate after each sale. the benefits of prop 13 have been used only by those who have stayed put and not sold and bought another house. 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 01:19 | 6112513 monad
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My children in SF know its a bubble and are making bank. When that thing blows they come home to me.

To me.

I look after my children.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:24 | 6112583 Dull Care
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An older gentleman here in Arizona told me 'There are two kinds of people who think California is a great place to live. Those who have never been and those who have never left."

 

I have to say from a professional standpoint the possibilities are tempting but it would be a three to five year run to make bank and get out. There's only so much Boxer, Feinstein, Moonbeam, Pelosi,Kamala Harris one can take.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:27 | 6112586 Meremortal
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Boom and bust is a great cycle.

 

Fortunes are made, and some are kept.

 

I don't care for CA for other reasons, but give me boom and bust over a centrally planned economy any day.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 05:01 | 6112716 NordikAvenger
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Dude left out Northrop, Aerospace (Hughes), CalTech and all the military-death-from-the-air-wing of the military industrial complexes.  Those are the ones that made California "frnia"

WTF?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 09:31 | 6113155 eyetaliano
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Land of missionaries and scoundrels. A lethal combination each playing off of each other. There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights & The Master explain it all.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 21:02 | 6115640 libraryrat
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the more I think about it, the more I think that the "crisis" in CA is manufactured FBO China.  Detroit collapsed and China bought it all up....now it's Cali.  What do you wanna bet in 5 years China's going to own large tracts of CA real estate....?!?

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