California Gov. Jerry Brown, dismissing Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s radio ads inviting California business owners to avoid California’s high taxes and punitive regulations by moving to Texas:
“Everybody with half a brain is coming to California.”
California Gov. Jerry Brown, dismissing Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s radio ads inviting California business owners to avoid California’s high taxes and punitive regulations by moving to Texas:
“Everybody with half a brain is coming to California.”
That is apparently the max allowed. It seems emigrants to California manage to leave at least half their brains behind at the border.
The term “half-wit” comes to mind. Jerry Brown is nothing but an old hippy that screwed up California the first time he was the governator and wants a second chance to really sink it. I know and worked with many Californians and they basically say the same thing.
Writers for late night talk show hosts love this kind of material. They get to spend the remaining 7 hours and 58 minutes of the work day playing Crazy Eights.
I’m thinking he took that quote from our own Jean Chretien who, as I recall, said something similar when referring to those who subscribed to his policies. Once a socialist…
The state is mentioned in the Bible….”the valley of fruits and nuts”.
It is obvious lobotomy is required to move to California.
Yahoo! phil has left the building!
The only people moving to California are Wetbacks.
What I was always baffled was how California drove out all aerospace & defense industries that paid great tax money with regulations and excessive taxes.
One of the more recent moves was one of California’s rocket companies that was required by state law to account for every litre of fuel consumed in rocket tests. The cost of adherence to the many state regulations out weighed the cost of the testing.
what is wrong with this mentality?
Seems it is not limited to California.
In Ontario, Premier McGuinty led government moved Ontario from the cheapest electrical jurisdiction to the most expensive jurisdiction in Ontario and are baffled why manufacturing moved away from Ontario. He did not understand that auto sector manufacturing was the backbone of the Ontario economy — just re-read his positions in the 90’s — Ontario was a service economy and not a manufacturing economy — policies followed reflecting that blind position.
Now our incoming premier is farther to the left and is more concerned with education than the economy or debt/deficit
As Johnny Carson used to say “California is like granola…..take away the fruits and the nuts, and you’re left with the flakes”.
The problem is, those individuals possessing their whole brain are staying the he!! away from the Caulivornia freak show.
Well now, Jerry Brown has told the truth at least once.
On New Year’s Day I had a tenured academic talking about how terrible it is that California is so very broke.
But why? Why??!!?? Because… go on, guess.
Guess, damn you!
Well they’re just not taxing the rich enough.
That’s it. That’s why. California is screwed because Scroog McDuck won’t stop rolling around on top of his big pile of gold.
I am not exaggerating. In any way. I honestly am not.
That’s how these people think.
It’s a bad scene, man.
I kind of want to turn Cali into the National Progtard Preservation zone. To dump all the progtards that weren’t contained in Detriot. The latter will be more like the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Well, it’s true. They voted this nut case back into office. Only people with half a brain would do something so idiotic.
Give the idiot a break.
All that rec pharma has to wind up somewhere.
“Half a brain is better than none”.
Screen the immigrants from Commifornia for progressive idjits looking to infect Texas…
Well that was a no-brainer to find the funny in.
gerry:
You’d be correct.
Have a look at:
1. http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-california-debt-clock.html — which includes all the US states.
California, with a population of about 2.85 times that of Ontario has a debt (state and local) of only about 1.56 times that of Ontario (provincial only, assuming that the provincial number includes the debt of Crown corporations and agencies — what about local government debt in Ontario? (see http://www.ofina.on.ca/borrowing_debt/debt.htm); 20.5% of GDP for California (state and local) versus about 40% or so of GDP for Ontario (provincial only)). California’s GDP, by the way, is about 3.2 times that of Ontario, according to the information.
California’s deficit (state and local) is about $72 billion per year; Ontario’s deficit (provincial only) at last report is about $12.0 billion — according to Mr. Duncan on January 21, 2013 (see, in this regard for the machinations involved, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontarios-deficit-3-billion-less-than-estimated-duncan-says/article7621426/). Assuming that the borrowings of Ontario municipalities were 1/3 of the Province’s borrowings ($4.0 billion per year; generous on the low side, I’m guessing), that would make $16 billion per year, or, on a California basis $46 billion per year.
2. cgh’s comments at “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans” (posted by Kate at 9:35 a.m. on Feb. 6, 2013) — which are a must read on point, and which should be an entirely separate post on this site, IMHO.
So, overall, Houston, I’d say we have a problem…
It’s the perfect place for all the half-brains to go.
Well, the Hollyweird set adores him, right?
Maybe the progtards should keep it up, so that the smart and wealthy types say FTS, and leave for Tejas.
Then the Hollyweird set can pay the tab, after all, they support progtardism, make’em pay. That’s when they will learn the robbery of socialism.
// The buses roll up to San Francisco’s bus stops in the morning and evening, but they are unmarked, or nearly so, and not for the public. They have no signs or have discreet acronyms on the front windshield, and because they also have no rear doors they ingest and disgorge their passengers slowly, while the brightly lit funky orange public buses wait behind them. The luxury coach passengers ride for free and many take out their laptops and begin their work day on board; there is of course wifi. Most of them are gleaming white, with dark-tinted windows, like limousines, and some days I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us. //
They are commuters who live in San Fransisco & work in Silicon Valley —
// There are advantages to being an edge, as California long was, but Silicon Valley has made us the centre. Five of the six most-visited websites in the world are here, in ranked order: Facebook, Google, YouTube (which Google owns), Yahoo! and Wikipedia. (Number five is a Chinese-language site.) If corporations founded by Stanford alumni were to form an independent nation, it would be the tenth largest economy in the world, with an annual revenue of $2.7 trillion, as some professors at that university recently calculated. Another new report says: ‘If the internet was a country, its gross domestic product would eclipse all others but four within four years.’ //
The Google Bus
Considering that California likely has the largest concentration of pneumocephalics on the planet, seeking the immigration of hemipneumocephalics can be viewed as a step forward. Next step in the recovery process, requiring a head CT for all elected officials.
California’s historic surfeit of super-bright, tech-savvy, going-concern Silicon Valley savants and their related business enterprises is beyond dispute, dizzy. The problem looking forward, though, is the punitive regulatory environment, the high taxes that will drive these economic engines to other states, the crumbling infrastructure, the fact that the bottom-dwellers have come to a tacit and essentially accidental political agreement with the ultra-liberal/Dem uber-rich (who can, after all, afford to be “generous” with the less well-endowed taxpayers’ dimes) about public policy, and the fact that, well, everybody with half a brain, and without a passport, is inclined to move to, and stay in, California.
Let’s talk in ten or fifteen years..
Everyone with half a brain has already moved to California, and has been elected to the state legislature.
Golfer Phil Mickelson got himself into some alleged trouble the other week for speaking his mind on taxes. The new tax regime in the state might see him paying 62 or 63 per cent of his income in tax. He says he’s willing to pay his “fair share”. But who other than a looter would consider anywhere near 60 per cent as a “fair share”? If you pay one-third of your income in tax, you’re already paying far more than any rational person’s conception of a “fair share”.
My opinion, based on thirty-four years living in Silicon Valley, is that the part of the brain that many Californians are missing is the part that recognizes that facts exist independently of logic – that if the facts contradict logic, the logic is wrong. Now, California doesn’t have a monopoly on this; we all see it frequently, and I’m not completely immune to it myself. But it’s all too common in California to find somebody who is extraordinarily smart and well-educated, is very good at what he does, but refuses to incorporate in his reasoning the fact, for example, that substantial people paying lots of taxes (including me) have been leaving California for about fifteen years now. I have a good friend in Silicon Valley, who is a very nice man, astonishingly smart, well-educated (PhD in physics from Cal Tech), and well-mannered (we have had many discussions about politics, which have all been quite civil), but who truly doesn’t understand that it is simply impossible for California or the United States to fund the governments that each has. It is most definitely not a lack of overall intelligence for him or, in my opinion, most of those who want to raise taxes without cutting spending. It is a blind spot. If you prefer to consider that blind spot a lack of intelligence, fine, but recognize that many of these people are, in most respects, very intelligent.
We’ll try this again with attribution, I hope.
Iowa Jim. Your PhD friend illustrates the famous aphorism attributed to Will Rogers, “There is nothing more ignorant than an educated man outside the area of his education.”
Dizzy, Steve Jobs told Obama face to face that it is almost impossible to open a plant or business in California due to high operating costs and regulations. As we saw with McGuinty and his ilk they simply don’t give a damn. As CGH wrote so eloquently on why energy is so expensive and screwed up in Ontario government elites who have zero knowledge of the subject are making political decisions based solely on their agenda. After all there is no downside for them, they just move on as Dwight Duncan and his cronies have.
It’s hardly just Cali and France, either.
http://michellemalkin.com/2012/11/29/two-thirds-millionaires-britain/
No wonder Californian zombies are so malnourished.
// Let’s talk in ten or fifteen years.. //
Not to wait quite that long, I’ll post something I recently read about the Texas side of this.
GDP per person in 2010 — ca 12th tx 24th & in
2011 ca 11th tx 18th shows Texas advancing.
But the oil/gas boom is being overstated, according to this +links
Texans, expecially government types, ascribe their boom rather to less government see joke
But California’s problems over the past decades show a contrary source — the chaos of California tax laws can be directly related to repeated infusions of “direct democracy” — starting back in the 1970s.
Dave
It was actually China VS the United States He also predicted that Obama would be a one-term president, unless he followed Jobs advice {& allowed him to produce his ad campaign}. Most of his pearls of wisdom were not within Federal powers.
Another factor was the availability of low-paid engineering people in China. Obama took that seriously. {544-47} If you look at Steve Jobs story, it was the huge availability of engineering talent in his area [all his neighbours — “even the ne’er do wells” — were engineers] in his youth that gave him & others their head start. Most was government sponsored military work.
“I know and worked with many Californians and they basically say the same thing.”
Unfortunately, there weren’t enough of them to keep the idiot from being returned to the governor’s office for a third time.
Just like it, especially in unique hues. Good quality involving retros gets superior.