Comments on: Two Rival States Duke It Out http://themoderatevoice.com/44265/two-rival-states-duke-it-out/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:43:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/44265/two-rival-states-duke-it-out/comment-page-1/#comment-208515 DLS Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:04:46 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=44265#comment-208515 Let's just say I am thankful I grew up there when it was a less crowded, less costly, less ridden with degenerate, self-destructive-politically-and-economically, *** BETTER *** place to live.<br><br>I might go back there to live someday, I may not. There is definitely repulsion as well as attraction there. Let's just say I am thankful I grew up there when it was a less crowded, less costly, less ridden with degenerate, self-destructive-politically-and-economically, *** BETTER *** place to live.

I might go back there to live someday, I may not. There is definitely repulsion as well as attraction there.

]]> By: Leonidas http://themoderatevoice.com/44265/two-rival-states-duke-it-out/comment-page-1/#comment-208396 Leonidas Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:14:18 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=44265#comment-208396 California government has pretty much botched it, although their laws that forced them to follow the public whim is partially responsible as well. Its really inevitable that they are ridiculed. California government has pretty much botched it, although their laws that forced them to follow the public whim is partially responsible as well. Its really inevitable that they are ridiculed.

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/44265/two-rival-states-duke-it-out/comment-page-1/#comment-208321 DLS Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:15:51 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=44265#comment-208321 As a California native as well as follower of the goings-on in the real world elsewhere in the USA, I can only scoff at this latest lack of comfort with unpleasant reality.<br><br>The real issue here is: the longstanding presence of *** PUSH FACTORS *** at work in, and caused by, California. Yes, including high taxes, hostility to business, and a "Massachusetts Lite" Sacramento, and related politics in places like Hollywood, Santa Monica, and notoriously in San Francisco.<br><br>(Can you imagine the push factors waiting to emerge and explode if Gavin Newsom or the like were governor?) As a California native as well as follower of the goings-on in the real world elsewhere in the USA, I can only scoff at this latest lack of comfort with unpleasant reality.

The real issue here is: the longstanding presence of *** PUSH FACTORS *** at work in, and caused by, California. Yes, including high taxes, hostility to business, and a “Massachusetts Lite” Sacramento, and related politics in places like Hollywood, Santa Monica, and notoriously in San Francisco.

(Can you imagine the push factors waiting to emerge and explode if Gavin Newsom or the like were governor?)

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