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School Children Rejoice: California Is So Broke It Will Shorten The School Year
This is just getting ridiculous:
- CALIFORNIA REVENUE MAY TRAIL FORECAST BY $3.7 BLN, ANALYST SAYS
- CALIFORNIA REVENUE SHORTFALL MAY MEAN SHORTER SCHOOL YEAR
Who needs to go to school anyway: all we need to know we learn from The Situation and Pauly-D. But yes, M-Dub is off by a month or two on the upcoming tsunami default wave: pesudo-sophist muni experts rejoice! Also rejoice because this news is somehow bullish - probably the EFSF will be expanded to include California, or the FT will break a story at 3 pm that China is about to buy CA, sending the S&P to Uranus.
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Last month of the year is a waste anyhow
No matter how short the year, there will always be a "last month".
But more importantly: To all those public union parasites who claim to strike "for the children" -- here's your chance to step up and work 1 month for free. Y'know: for the children.
California is the Elephant in the US that no one is talking about. save ZH.. It is truly screwed. Pension / CALPERS problem alone.. kaboom.. occupy the soup line..
They got nothin on New York. When our excellent Governor starts movin' on this "issue" Thor himself will smile with pride.
And siphoning off dollars from education because of too many entitlements is much better than reducing at the entitlments themselves.
Those turtle-tunnels worked so well. And... Nancy be praised, we have saved the Salt Marsh Mouse from extinction!!!
What about the little mouse children?...they have feelings too!
I'm sure she put a little pork in there for "mouse infrastructure"...ya know, constructing little mousy day care centers around major mice interstate on ramps so Mama & Papa Mouse can go off to work and bring in more government cheese.
She seems the very epitome of a Mouse Central Planner ;-)
Who needs education, they just hire the mexican at minimum wage regardless, and they certainly don't care how much they are educated.
Good point.
I often wondered at the real motives of those who are against building a stronger border, speedy deportations etc. I believe a sound case can be made that they enjoy the benefits of "plantation labor" without having to pay for all the out buildings, clothing and care.
An illegal falls off your roof...chunk him in the ole station wagon and trundle him off to the ER door...toss him out...drive through the Home Depot parking lot and plug another one in.
Very humanitarian, those who think that way ;-)
Where I work it is 3 gringos, 15 mexicans (San Jose). My -supervisor- told me the other day she took her daughter to the E.R. for some bullshit. She makes at least 5 times as much as I. The fridge at work is full of food bank shit, brands of corn flakes from some unknown company, etc. At noon, they -all- break for an hour while some family comes by and makes them all lunch, who they pay cash under the table. Then the dude with the ice cream comes by at 3pm, with the little bells ringing, also cash under the table. Then the people with the fresh cut up watermelon and canteloupe come by around 4pm, you guessed it, cash under the table. I think my coworkers spend 1/4 of their daily income on complete shite from daily vendors who come by our work. It makes me want to support a lower income tax and to introduce a VAT to make these fuckers at least pay something, and a VAT is anathema to me, but fuck them.
[Truth is, we're flat busted, and so we can't afford no education]
I'd rather be on the streets here where it rains very little and is relatively warm. What would it be like in a soup line where you are?
To the moon Alice. Hold on to your hats and properties...hyperinflation bitchez.
Dem scum lib union CA, IL, NY and a few others are Greece on MEGA steroids. CT's has about 3 million people and they have at least an $80 billion pension shortfall in the future. One of the wealthiest state's in the USA and they vote in lib Dems and pro govt union stooges.
Along with giving everyone a free ride on property taxes,,,,
Don't tenured union teachers work 3 months for free? Oh no, that's right, they get paid to not work for 3 months!
Very soon America will have full employment (~99%) and a kids education system will be year-long.
Why? Any totalitarian society likes to have a total control over its citizens. In other words, people will be either at their places of employment or be in forced-labor institutions.
BS time is about over. The new totalitarian reality will come shortly.
The kids in CA just got a little smarter. The less time they waste with those imbecile teachers the better. No real skills or values taught. Just fake history and the pressure to shop and spend money they don't have.
I am a consumer math and calculus teacher in CA. I am like a crazy guy on the street corner waving an "end is near" sign when it comes to not taking on debt. That includes student loans unless they are commensurate to the education received and the expected income thereafter. Yes, the profession does tend to attract starry eyed liberals, but there are more than a few of me out there breaking our backs every day to give kids some balance in their education.
Please don't overgeneralize. I was in the private sector - management at a fortune 500 company many years before I taught. I left because it seemed to me that math education was very weak and yet proficiency in math is such a critical component in fiscal responsibility. (And this was long before the bubble burst, so it appears I was right.) So I left to teach and I've never regretted it despite the vastly longer days and much lower pay. Yes, it's true. I typically work a 12 hour day between grading and planning. I work every single weekend during the school year. I also work in the summer, either teaching a class, tutoring, training, etc. I know exactly one teacher who has the money to do absolutely nothing in the summer. The rest of us have to find summer work somehow. And that's ok. We still get a few weeks off and we are smart enough to recognize the blessing it is.
And one final word: as every parent who has had a teen knows, they can be rather mouthy and belligerent. Parents typically have one, maybe two teens at home. I have as many as 40 teens in each class throughout the day. It takes all the strength and patience I have to keep them in line, learning things they should know about credit and such. Can you do that?
I commend you for your efforts. Please drive through Hayward (i'm sorry I mean Tijuana) and tell me if it's working. Quite frankly, they only want temporary visa engineers anyway. I take all my lunchbreaks near the Pruneyard in Campbell where Ebay breaks, and it's all Indians. 10% gringo engineers. Gringos require too much finessing, they keep prattling on how they want a 'life' or some such thing. Indians are much more compliant/desperate, especially when we bring their entire fucked up family over here, we can't have grandma and uncle Prem being sent back home after a taste of the good life collecting benefits, they would disavow said engineer relative and blackball the entire family branch. More than enough leverage to keep them in line with that alone.
Boo effing hoo. I'm sure you're just baffling them with bullshit.
Do you teach them that they have a fixed amount of money that they will earn and spend over a lifetime? And that credit just reduces overall how much "stuff" you can buy from that. Credit just allows one to spend their entire lifetime of earnings ALL AT ONCE.
It's that kind of common sense that they need and will never be told.
Can you read what others write or are you too blinded by your arrogance? Does it not say something to you that I am a zerohedge fan and left a high paying job to teach teens not to use credit? Grow up.
i salute you sir (math major)
YEAH! I just don't understant why there are years anygow! And we don't need to stinking skools either!!
Well played.
Hey Sudden Debt I gotta a question: It seems like the entirety of the EU is now being run out of Brussels. What gives? Something about "angry sock puppets everywhere?"
"Good idea, school is for fools! Look at me! Hahaha!!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz-6-MfpsJo
you could make that same argument about the remainder of the school year.
Thank God, the kids will have one less month of exposure to brain damaging robotic bullshit that passes for creative thought. Maybe there is hope for them yet
Hahaha you said "urAnus"
More seriously, this is what qualifies as "winning the future"?
Age old rethorical device: find a nice verb in progressive/continuous tense + "the" + abstract popular noun:
Or the one I always hear;
For the children
Why there'd be mayhem in the streets if it wasn't for the lil chillun, the angels have saved our society.
Why does we need long school years if we has internet?
Much of the rote crap learning could be done over the wire and graded by machine. frees up teachers and students.
Physical school m/w/f - internet tuesdays and thursdays - reduced the school year by2/5ths in one fell swoop.
Computers can teach at a students pace, rather than the classes pace.
This is really a no brainer.
In fairness and seemingly against the grain of my previous stab at union teachers, we will always need teachers. It can'tall be done on computers. Likewise, many people do in this countrydo nothave computers or internet and they would be at a serious disadvantage. Get rid of the union bullshit and let charter schools do their thing. They have proven over and over to be much more successful at teaching and doing it wth far less money than the public system. Does anyone realize that in the last 20 years public school expenditures have increased 400% (I'm not sure if that is in rea terms) and average test scores have not increased at all? The top level bureaucracy has grown immensely however.
Yeah...let's just hire the University of Phoenix to teach everyone!
Student loans for all! Apollo Group' stock will go up 10000000000%!!
CAPITALISM, YOU PANSY BITCHES!
mr. prankster - sarcasm? i don't understand. because - kids have to learn things like being punctual, interacting with others.
and even things like being exposed to germs. internet is basically the equivalent of crawling back into the cave.
Romancing The Stone?
watch out for those falling school district muni prices
yah....Cali has been cooking the books on property assessment values....marking to unicorn. What a surprise.
http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/mark-fantasy-model-real-estate-accounting-california-property-assessments-down-taxes-fha-defaults-surge-again/
Property assessment about to skyrocket...the money printing to get serious. Inflation is the way out...just ask the bernank.
$100 is the new $10
Canada's new plastic $100 bill is all tricked out http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/canadas-new-plastic-1...
Revised Alice Cooper Bitchezzz....
School's Out or Welcome to My Nightmare?
www.pmbug.com
Those old "Alice" lyrics were clever
On stage sometimes heads he would sever
So did he foresee
CA bankruptcy
And sing that their "schools out forever"
Isnt this antithetical to a solution. You are stupid enough to approve all the social programs that have broken your state. And now you are going to educate less?
Only in California.
It's the new frontier for the bankster's. Keep the next generation of Debt serf's dumb and stupid. Wouldn't be surprised to see 4 day school weeks coming soon
New frontier? What do you think has been happening at public schools the whole time?
They are just an agency of social control. Praise the flag, you have no privacy, don't read that book read this, government is good, do as you are told, American exceptionalism, here are the answers to the test, don't think just regurgitate.
Why don't they tax the illegals (aka the 99%) to close the gap?
They're not white. Any move of any kind against them is automatically classified as racism by the press and judiciary. CA tried denying welfare to illegals, a judge said no, overturning a popular referendum. Then they blamed the popular referendum for GOP problems in the state. The only way to end this is making income transfers at gunpoint illegal, with advocacy of it classified as felony conspiracy and racketeering.
Well the mayor of LAwhich provides $600 million of medical benefits to illegal aliens just went against the wishes of his neighborhood to build a taller security fence around the Mayor's Mansion, at tax payers expense, I might well add. We have our priorities right (oops I should have said left) out here in the Golden State (the gold is gone).
So long as education is as broken as it is, yes, educate less. How many of you out there can say even 1/3 of what you learned in school was even relevant to the world. Fake history, BS economics, no more vocational prep. Throw in several hours of peer pressure to shop and spend.
Other than reading, writing, science and 'rithmetic... wasn't it all just a waste of time? The whole curriculum needs to be gutted and re-designed from scratch.
What is sad - is that CA had one of the best school systems in the world about 30 years ago. All the libtard shit from the East Coast (the Bronx and Philly to name two shitholes) moved there in the 1960s and destroyed the state. Feinstein, Boxer, Waxman, Goldberg, Pelosi, et al.
No it is all spanny and ebonics.
They will play Ipad at home.
The new mantra... "Every child is left behind"
"as we speed off to our glorious future in a brand new Maserati paid for by...
TERRA... the "Toddler Economic Recovery & Reinvestment Act"
They'll learn more.
Slash and burn everything..., except the bloated wages and pensions.
Governor Moonbeam
Hot teacher day.. http://hedge.ly/gFWVSm
Technology to believe in;)
Huummmm.... Nice, clean pool.
Nice. Bloated .gov leechfucks > bloated .edu leechfucks. Hahaha. They're eating their own.
reduced energy, reduced payrolls(maybe)....increased margins.......bullish
what the soon to be in hell oldidorks favor, is to keep people stupid enough, so they wouldn't know which end of the pitchfork to use!
One need only to look around at the abundance of very large SUVs in areas that never get snow, to realize that the goal of massive stupidity is already accomplished.
DUMB KIDS MAKE GREAT ADULT VOTERS
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.-- Bertrand Russell
Good riddance to any amount of public schooling.
What voters put the last two men into office as POTUS?
100% FUBAR.
If voting could accomplish anything it would be illegal - George Carlin.
When you don't have the education that allows you to gain employment which will pay your bills, you become a burden on society dependent on entitlements to survive...thus, in the majority of cases, you vote liberal...it's all a liberal conspiracy to dumb down the population. You know everyone always talks about how Republicans are pro big business and banks...well let's see...here has Obummer and his fellow liberals investigated any crimes or arrested anyone on Wall Street? Are the TBTF banks bigger and more profitable than they were 3 years ago? uhhh, yes. Has big business survived while small and mid-sized business has been virtually wiped out? uhhh, yes. Do big businesses need stupid people to take orders? uhhhh, yes?. Don't tell me that the Democratic leadership has any different agenda than the Republicans...its all about taking care of their corrupt buddies. The only difference is that the Dems pretend to care about the little guy.
This is making Alice and the Mad Hatter look normal.
lolol
Buying CA? Are you serious? or is this an expression?
Just a joke....actually China already owns CA.
Actually California is the capitol/capital of Mexico.
It is on layaway.
WOW this has GOT to be very to quite bullish!
I am in tears laughing
The uneducated are so much easier to control... They don't even try to think for themselves anymore
neither do educated people...
Only if you let school get in the way of education
The sheep are controlled by TV, propaganda "news" and the celeb media. Morons watch TV and enpower their masters by watching.
One reason I do not have cable TV
It depends on the education.
Classical liberal education: critical thinking.
Public schooling: herd indoctrination.
Watch John Taylor Gatto describe our imported Prussian schooling system.
Good ! Less Brainwashing , they don't educate anyways !
Education,Indoctrination... wat's the effin difference!
In Kalifornia of course, where Arnold is a conservative.
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mundane educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom; go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts.-- Frank Zappa
Hi ummm, Arnie is gone, we have some new d00d named moonbeam or something. And the new d00d made using E-verify illegal in the entire state, to fuck over San Bernadino County trying to protect at least their govt. contracts from going to illegals. Oh and he made it illegal to confiscate your car at a checkpoint if you don't have a drivers license. Wonder who that helps! Oh and he raised tuitions 40% to pay for illegals getting scholarships and in state tuition. Not Arnie's doin.
CA moron Dems put Moon Beam in office twice. Moon Beam's old man nearly bankrupted the state. Reagan was elected and the state had a surplus after a few years.
Cali; leading member in the Loyal Order of the Terminally Boned (LOTB)
"And now we will discuss the application of quadratic equations to real world solut..........opps we are out of money. Have a good summer."
But teacher, why can't you just print more money like the federal government?
Because ink prices have shot through the roof since Bernanke took post and the ink is now worth more than the money printed with it!
Coz you see kids, money isn't really worth anything unless the commoners, like your parents, perform actual work to obtain it. Only then does money gain value. The dumber the public is the more value money can have. If you just simply print money, sure it might help in the short run, but as no work has been performed to warrant it's creation, it didn't become a real tool of enslavement it was designed to be. And that makes money sad.
Have a nice summer everyone. (Damn I suck at writing imaginary classroom monologues)
Literally, in a single paragraph, you gutted semesters of economic study. Kudos.
just make sure you keep paying those bloated, corrupt pensions until the school year is down to one week a year ......because its for the children and we couldnt break a contract
We need rob and loot the taxpayers for the govt union workers pensions. We must do it for the children.
It would be funny if some1 did a study on this and if that study later found out that children actually learn more especially more useful things while staying home
The parents, for the majority, are ignorant fucks who won't teach their kids anything useful because they don't know shit themselves.
Hell, most of them are for more spending on "education" because they use it as a day care program.
What's the number of "unplanned" children whose parents consider them a nuisance and wants someone else to raise them??
Similar study pertaining to hospital closures/doctor's strike (less death).
Geeez, they already get out at 2:30PM here for the most part. Hardly enough time for a good brainwashing.
I'm in CA. This week is all minimum days from 9-12 due to conferences. Next week is no school for Thanksgiving break. Xmas is two weeks off. School started in Aug and its been at least one half day a week. I told my wife it seems they want the school closed to pay less salary, but she tells me it costs the same because the unions negotiate time off into flex time, sick days, and vacation time. So the teachers work much less and receive the same pay. I don't blame the teachers, its the administrators and unions that have killed an otherwise decent system. Those parents that fully rely upon public school and don't educate their own kids will be in a world of hurt when they realize little Jonny is 15 and can barely spell basic sight words or multiply 2x2.
"Those parents . . . will be in a world of hurt when they realize little Jonny is 15 and can barely spell basic sight words or multiply 2x2."
Especially since they think little Jonny is going to grow up and pay the living expenses for all the mommies and daddies of the Western World.
Obviously "Little Johny" doesn't need to spell or multiply - all he needs to know is how to take orders and carry a gun.
And he'll be an engineer!
And he'll be an engineer!
No chance the kids will be able to multiply quickly.
I knew all multiples up to 15x15 when I was 8. My twin 9 year old nieces can't multiply up through 5x5 without using their hands, and they are both in the "advanced" courses at the wonderful public institution they attend.
See above post regarding ignorant and lazy parents. They were unplanned to my sister in law, and she offloads them on someone else every chance she can.
is your brother in this storyline at all?
Which is why Ron Paul will be happy to end the useless Dept of Ed. And I'll take it a step further... give that department's entire annual budget to teachers if they leave their unions.
Don't you mean little Juanito?
And the prison doors swing open to recieve them..
Wait? what's that? no funding for prisons? Well then that is a lot of un-educated men and women who will be unemployed and have a lot of time to kill. You know what they say about idle hands. Can South Central become any more of a war zone?
Go long on liquor and ammo.
No funding for prisons? How can that be the case when cities and states are increasingly adopting the policy where they charge the inmates to be imprisoned?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/riverside-charges-inmates_n_107...
$140 a day for three hots and a cot seems a little high....
Can I gets me some free helfcare?
I saw that. Here are my two problems with the whole thing; First, how exactly do you extract this paper from the prisoner? Are they working for you? Are the providing a service of real value? Clearly many will not be good for anything except being locked in a box, so how to extract these funds, certainly you don't expect everyone to be employable in the future? What will these future wages for these people realistically be?
Let's be optimistic and assume that some are realeased and find work. What happens when the purchasing power of the paper that they are paid does not even cover their survival, much less cover their "debt" to the prison system. Sounds like a fancy way of saying that the U.S. will have debtor's prisons in the future (and we all know how well that turns out).
Even an uneducated criminal (and who knows what crimes the state will invent in the future) will be smart enough to recognize a raw deal prefer to simply commit another crime in order to get the free food, lodging and healthcare.
As far as prisons go, we start by prosecuting fraud at all levels and make prison very uncomfortable, potentially life threatening, places to be.
The money will come from jobs being sent to prisons, no joke. So take low paying jobs from civilians to criminals who will work for even less. If I find the article I will post it.
Wow, endentured servants of the state. But will this increase or decrease unemployment. Sorry, I don't see how reducing unemployment through endentured servitude (not a far cry from salvery) can be considered a "winning" plan for humanity. This would crush small business owners who normally employ many in low-paying jobs. I ride bikes and my bike mechanic is a good guy who isn't paid shit. Will prisoners be workig on my bikes in the future?
Here is a good starting point:
NY Times: Enlisting Prison Labor to Close Budget Gaps
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/us/25inmates.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
and another good one:
Why are Prisoners Building Patriot Missiles?http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/defense-industrial-b...
"They are paid $0.23 an hour to start, and can work their way up to a maximum of $1.15 to manufacture electronics that go into the propulsion, guidance, and targeting systems of Lockheed Martin’s (LMT) PAC-3 guided missile, originally made famous in the first Persian Gulf conflict."
NASA Chief: "Keep thinking about Uranus. Never lose sight of it, and then, reach for it."
some schools in LAUSD have a 41% Drop out rate anyway so I don't see the problem in the penal colony formerly known as california
you guys are funny today.
Scare tactics. When money is low, threaten to throw the vulnerable to the wolves if the sheep are being tight with their money. Works every time.
Just once I would like to see them actually push grandma out to the sidewalk in front of the nursing home.
"Sorry Mrs Hunkachula, budget cuts you see. We could either pay people 8 cents less an hour or remove state paid baggage. Unions wouldnt move on the pay."
The super committee hasn't even failed yet and we're already hearing how horrid these automatic spending cuts will be to the defense budget. Yeah right... If a penny is kept from the Pentagon I'll be surprised. I wonder what false flag to expect this time.
Does that mean teachers would see decreases in pay?
Ultimately I think this would be on table. But, to start it would affect transportation and operational costs for sure.
Less work, same pay is a pay increase. I bet this was a Teachers Union idea to plug the deficit.
i heard the students just received new math textbooks authored by geithner and the eu. some examples:
johnny has one apple
johnny owes fred 5 apples
how many apples short is johnny?
answer: none. johnny can borrow 4 apples from pete.
if johnny had a gun, he could take everyone's apples, and oranges, and....
Or: Johnny has one apple, and holds 5 apples for Fred.
Fred asks for his apples back. How many apples will Johnny have left?
6 Bitches! Fred didn't read the MUTHA FUCKIN' HYPOTHECATION agreement.
Well done!
Advanced math...
Johnny had no apples.
Johnny was somehow allowed to borrow 10 apples.
Johnny was able to trade the borrowed 10 apples for Bob’s borrowed 10 oranges.
Sam then stepped in and securitized both the apples and oranges and sold the security for 1,000 grapes.
Ben then stepped in and decided that he would subsidize the growing of new apples as the best way to generate more grapes.
So how many apples did Johnny have?
shirley enough apples to pay back anybody and everybody who asks for them.....
If you say so... but please don't call me Shirley. :)
They all get infinite amounts... they hired illegals to plant more grapes, oranges, and apples.
Can I get a CDS quote on Johnny?
It's always teachers and firemen on the chopping block first because there are no unnecessary outreach coordinators, diversity liaisons, or sustainability facilitators. Not a one.
It's always teachers and firemen on the chopping block first because...
Because it's scarier to Joe Sixpack.
Anyone see this? Physical possession...ONLY!
http://www.infowars.com/gerald-celentes-gold-account-was-emptied-by-mf-g...
I saw that and read some of the comments, lol. A few folks were bashing him for not knowing better or not practicing what he preaches about the phyzz. I had to chuckle when I envisioned Celente and his entire net worth stored in the form of phyzz au stuffed into the Bank of Serta. Bank of Serta might work for most American subjects belonging to the former middle class but for Celente?
Yup. See ZH post this morning.
AJ and infowars?
Really?
No money for schools, but tons of money for sports stadiums.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/29/opinion/oe-zirin29
As studies from think tanks such as the Brookings Institution and the Cato Institute have shown, stadium funding never brings an effective return on its investment. More than $30 billion has been spent on stadiums over the last 25 years. That includes publicly funded stadiums such as the Nationals' baseball park in Washington -- coming in at almost twice the projected budget -- and so-called privately funded parks such as AT&T Park in San Francisco. There's always a tab that taxpayers end up paying.
Both Schwarzenegger and Roski have also promised Maria Elena Durazo, executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, that concession workers and parking attendants will be paid "middle-class wages."
"This is true economic development," Durazo said. "It's going to benefit everyone in our community." The typical pay for these jobs is $7.65 an hour, which would be "middle class" if JFK were president.
Yeah. That about sums up modern-day Amerikkka.
Cathedrals to the secular Gods
What happened? the market forgot to rally?
Time to break out the Red bills again......
I haven't yet nailed down the various Tyler personas, but the one that penned this one has an unmistakable style that is by far the wittiest. The "who needs to go to school anyway" paragraph just gets funnier with each read.
Thx.
they are starting a trend
Finally folks at Zerohege get a grip on the bright side of things. No job no school no government no rules. Paradise is near. Gone Fishin'.
don't they lose federal funds for education if they don't have the student-daze logged?
some of the administrators make really big bucks & bennies, too! they will hafta get pay raises for shutting down more education! think fannie and freddie and remember: no nanny left behind! it's the law!
but every schoolboy knows that the fishing during the school-year is pretty good in norCal
don't forget the geiger counter, kids!
What happen's to all the Fed gravy when the school's are not open the minimum number of day's?
You have to have lived here for an extended period of time to fully appreciate how the California Dream devolved into a socialist shithole.
Brown was a fool in the '70s as Governor and has had 30 years to hone his skills. Met him several times when involved with the MSM; guy is an arrogant asshole.
I grew up in the People's Republic of Kalifornia but escaped back in '83. For years my family was on my azz about moving back. I always refused. Last April, I went back to visit my pop for his 90th birthday. NOBODY hounded me about coming back, lol. In fact, my cousins are considering moving to Texas. Only my father still doesn't 'get it'. Everyone else is going broke/bankrupt. Dad thinks the Democraps will save them all. Must be demntia.