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best line of the day

http://blog.archenemy.org/2010/01/11/ins…

I’d say it sounds like California could stand to have someone invade it, try and hang the leadership, and engage in a little nation building to put things back on the right track, except that I wouldn’t want to rob anyone of the fun of watching its eventual total collapse.

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2 Responses to “best line of the day”

  1. Max Lybbert Says:
    January 11th, 2010 at 12:39 pm

    I have to agree, but the lesson will be lost on the Californians ( http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2010/01/10/visit-to-berkeley-california/ ):

    Unfortunately the museum was closed along with every other University of California building, due to lack of funds. … I pointed out that California collects a larger percentage of its citizens’ income than all but five other states (10.5 percent; source). Shouldn’t it be possible to run the state on 10.5 percent of income?

    Despite the fact that all of my interlocutors had university educations, sometimes including PhDs, all were so deeply invested in the idea that their insolvent state government is starved for revenue that they were unable to parse the information. They all replied that of course California needed more money than the average state because it had a larger population, thinking that I had said California collected more total dollars than all but five other states. None could accept the idea that their state had a spending problem rather than a revenue problem and everyone thought that more money should be collected “from rich people” (… they defined “rich” as “more than $50 million in assets” …). …

    For roughly 60 years, Berkeley has offered more services to its residents than virtually any other city in the U.S. … Yet Berkeley has a poverty rate of 21 percent, higher than the state average of 12 percent. … Sixty years of failure had not daunted any of the East Bayers with whom I spoke; all were in favor of even bigger and more expensive government.

    Likewise, New Yorkers, and residents of Massachusetts and Michigan appear to also be oblivious to facts.

  2. DirtCrashr Says:
    January 13th, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    I would be happy if Berkeley were nuked, but the Hayward Fault will get ‘em and then they can have their retarded, “general strike” and “socialist revolution.”