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Originally posted by TheRedneck
Now let's talk about how many of them, since they have no marketable skills and are forced to find work in the lowest-paying jobs, take from the budget? Food stamps, medicaid, welfare, housing assistance... the list goes on and on of ways the taxpayer is paying much much more than they are getting.
And this is not for our citizens; this is for anyone who wants to wade across the Rio Grande!
TheRedneck
Originally posted by liveandletlive
Originally posted by silver tongue devil
reply to post by bismarcksea
What State are you residing in that does not spend more then they make?
Texas
In the mid-90's, under Republican Governor Pete Wilson, California began changing the electricity industry. Democratic State Senator Steve Peace, the chair of the energy committee and the author of the bill that put these changes into effect, is often credited as "the father of deregulation". Wilson admitted publicly that defects in the deregulation system would need fixing by "the next governor".
Originally posted by centurion1211
Originally posted by Aquarius1
... and yes the weather is perfect, first three years I was there lived through the end of a five year drought, nine months of the year everything is dead, those so called Golden Hills are dead ...
You know, I keep hearing about the so-called perfect weather in the SF Bay Area. Also lived there for 15 years - until 2005.
The weather in the bay area (no need to capitalize it, as if it's somehow a proper noun) is, as you say, boring. Nothing spectacular. Trying to equate all of California with the weather climate of the SF bay area though, is like trying to sink a battle ship with a wrist-rocket (a.k.a. high-powered sling shot for those that don't know).
Coming from the mid-west, I always thought the weather in the Bay Area was rather boring. No real seasons beyond just wet and dry. No majestic thunderstorms, and no snow.
Hype? You want hype? We get fog down here maybe 30 days out of the year, and even then it's gone rather quickly (unless some odd weather front moves through).
And we had to deal with the fog where I lived. The penalty for a sunny day was often a cold, clammy, foggy evening and night.
Like so many other things about the "Golden State", even the weather fails to live up to the hype.
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Would you have a society in which one is entitled to benefits merely by virtue of the fact that one is born here and not there, despite one's unwillingness to earn those benefits by labor at even the most menial, unskilled occupation.
And at the same time, you would deny those same benefits to those who, often at great personal risk, are willing, and grateful to take on those same menial, unskilled jobs, while paying into the commonwealth through taxation; simply because they were born there, not here.
Could there be something else informing such an opinion. Perhaps something darker, and born of unreasoning fear?
California is more than welcome to the rest of the countries illegal’s since they do not harm the economy. That will open up plenty of jobs for actual citizens everywhere else.
Originally posted by RRconservative
reply to post by grover
If you want to restrict something you tax it. If you want less people to smoke you increase taxes on it. The same thing goes with revenues. If you want less revenues, increase taxes.
Why can't California understand this?
Originally posted by and14263
If you want to restrict something you tax it. If you want less people to smoke you increase taxes on it. The same thing goes with revenues. If you want less revenues, increase taxes.
Why can't California understand this?
I didn't start 'smoking' until I was 22. I didn't like then, nor do I like now, the smell of regular 'cigarettes'. Even though I'm (or rather was) a smoker, I can walk in to a room and smell tobacco. Marlboro, Winston, PallMall, Lucky Strike... take your pick of top shelf to rollies tobacco, and I can tell... smell... the difference.
Originally posted by and14263
reply to post by abecedarian
I hear what you're saying here.
When I heard about the flavoured cig banning I put it down to the authorities wanting to look like they were doing something for the good but picking the area of smallest sales... So it looks good but has the least negative financial impact. I didn't look at it like you but I am hearing you now.
Originally posted by Bhadhidar
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And at the same time, you would deny those same benefits to those who, often at great personal risk, are willing, and grateful to take on those same menial, unskilled jobs, while paying into the commonwealth through taxation; simply because they were born there, not here.
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Originally posted by silver tongue devil
What State are you residing in that does not spend more then they make?
Originally posted by die_another_day
Florida has already failed:
no more infrastructure
Disney owns the state above groung
Nestle owns everything below ground, including the "state owned" aquifer.
Phosphorus deposits are nearly depleted when were the world's #1 exporter.
Oranges can't grow because we #ed up the swamps causing large shifts in temperature.
Kids are reading below average which is less than a 50% on a test.
Republicans in the past 2 decades really done it this time.