I think, and i think most outside obersvers would agree, that a state the size of california doesnt get brought to its knees with one problem.

Yes, you have to many illegal immigrants, but the wages demanded are so high its no wonder they turn to illegals (100k+ a year prison guards anyone!) and you have the most innefectual government around. Arnie hasnt a clue, like most republicans, the democrats think you can ramp up everyones taxes and it will fix the probelm and it wont, the republicans think you must slash services and it will be ok, but that will only hinder tommorows growth.

Then on top of that you are now losing people! Less tax dollars coming in, more cuts, higher taxes to bridge the gap……..

Good luck. Thank god im in europre is all I can say

So enjoy your unemployment, tent cities, and million of new legal and illegal immigrants that are coming to America.

So long as the American people continue to elect Presidents based on slogans rather than sustance, they deserve the government they are getting. The American people never learn because they do not take the time to study history or read what is really going on in the real world. Do the American people studying the voting records of the candidates they are voting for? The answer is 95% do not.

Have a nice day.

Everything you need to know about immigration and what to do about it .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBw1nUlf38I

(Roy Beck and NumbersUSA are the “gumball” heroes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WJeqxuOfQ

America is losing the “brains” who once flocked there, leaving only the huddled masses of the illegal alien, uneducatable, and co-dependants.

Buchanan said the same thing, but he used less clear vocabulary.

Those who can flee the USA are leaving or have left. Expats fill other nations now, and I am one of them.

The nation that most impresses me at this time is Burma, and second, Indonesia, third Cambodia, and fourth Vietnam. I have been in all of these countries multiple times over he past 2 years, and I am impressed. I am now living 30 minutes from the Burma border in the mountains. I love life here, and am so glad that the Burmese military didn’t allow the Americans and others into their country. I have many Burmese friends, and they are so kind, generous, and godly. A great revival is happening in Burma, and it’s the Holy Spirit, not the narcissistic missionaries of the western world.

Yes, the USA is going down, losing all who can leave and still survive elsewhere.

When the American economy collapses, if we are forced to repatriate, what will America do then with the repatriating American elderly? We won’t have any money, and we are totally accustomed to the good life by living in Asia where we don’t have to cook, drive a car, worry about medical bills, or fear harassment when we travel widely and at little expense.

Yes, as America collapses, the priviledged American Expats who have been living overseas whilst the American-based Americans suffer will return home, with a totally different concept of life then what the American media has fed the newly awakened American residents.

And the military, if they don’t get kept on the battle-fields fighting for politicians, when they get back to the streets of American, not-landscaped, will they fight for the America they remember, or the America they find themselves enduring?

Just a few of my thoughts as an old man.

Reagan recognized that big business employed and fed the population, and that healthy society tolerated the harsh undercurrent of the radical anti-government hippie movement, the liberal and screaming college protesters, and the anti-business tree-huggers. Healthy society could tolerate, and support, increasing regulation, increasing entitlement spending, and increasing promotion of liberal Big Government whose job was to school and take care of children, students, “mexican tourists”, and bums.

California had a firm determination to harshly regulate big business, to firmly fix into law entitlement spending-unions-benefits for all, and they simply went broke and unemployed, having run off (and exported) all that science and industry.

My Dad, who started his career in the power industry, worked for COPCO (Cal-Oregon Power). He would tell about the inordinate regulation, and make dire predictions about California’s future. I grew up in Oregon. Military in the 60′s.

Reagan was an example of that prosperous era of California, espousing a pretty and attractive, and big-city-sophisticated “50’s” America, that was clean and safe, and entertaining, yet preserved an underlying morality. An America that championed it’s big business, as a place to finance schools, scientific research, and provide jobs for all.

Like it did with McCain, the big media had foisted Reagan onto the Republican party, promoting him as the only acceptable alternative in an increasingly Democrat-leaning population. They thought Regan would be liberal and ineffectual. When they later tried to turn on him, the public revolted, and the media was reduced to referring to Reagan in “double entendres”, and Reagan became known as the “teflon man”. That is, as he aged, he still looked good, and also, no matter how much “crap” they flung at him (whenever he made some “screwup”), it did not seem to stick (though they promoted the idea that it wasn’t the media flinging the crap, but rather the democrats).

Somewhere in the 60’s, there was this most wonderful science fiction story, about a family that was going to the beach for the day. In an era of huge American cars this story predicted a road having nothing but tiny cars, like “baby buicks and caddlettes”. The parents chided the rambunctious kids, “INVERT! INVERT!”. Telling the kids to pull their arms in, talk quietly, and fit themselves into their tiny car. There were two ways to get to the beach. By way of the paid highway, and by means of the “free tunnel”. but there was a catch. The free tunnel had steel doors, and randomly (from time to time), the doors would close, and all people within would be gassed, and people and cars fed to the recycling system, then doors would open again. The story ends with the family agreeing that the trip had been exciting, and maybe next weekend they would again visit the beach by way of the free tunnel.

We laughed at Carter, listening to this rich-boy tell us all to INVERT! INVERT! Learning to watch the new misery index, as the desireability of Carter and the US plummetted monthly.

We watch rich-folks, thinking they are royalty, again learning to tell the US to INVERT! Now we watch in horror as the media, and seemingly most of Washington DC begins to head towards the California/European model, like something from a hollywood zombie movie.

Will the pendulum again swing to the right (to keep our financial/morality/scientific/military healthy)? Will the conservatives have anything ready, by then, to offer except more career-crooks?

Or will the pendulum get stuck to the left (emphasizing our Empathy/Caring/Nobility/Liberal-Arts, in the European image, with the California-style financial disaster)? Will we become addicted to the nanny-state, and the immorality permeating Pelosi’s home territory? Will we get stuck in the Free Tunnel?