Ivan

The news about the drug terror in Mexico is crap. Like in the US unless you are involverd in the traffic the danger is near zero. There are more thsn a million American and Canadia retirees who live partime or full year in Mexico with many having not been to the US in years and none are planning to leave as burial is 1/5 of US costs. If you have the money good medical care and insurance are available in Mexico at reasonable prices. A fulltime live in certified nurse(not a maid) can be hired for a $1,000 a month, doctors willl happily make house calls for $50 or less, pharmaceuticals sell for 1/3 of US prices or less, ordinary Mexicans are good kind-hearted people and if you treat them as your equals and friends they look out for you. You buy into a gated community, make local friends and you are set if you speak or learn Spanish, join a church, and do what you do here.
Coste rica is a similar situation to mexico but it lacks in the charm and historic treasures one finds in Mexico in the places where American retirees choose to settle and it is no cheaper than mexico these days though it has less urban hassle. The lack of urban hassle in Coste Rica also means an inferior infrastructure and alack of high culture which you can find in Mexico’s larger state capitals cities. My wife prefes Costa Rica andI prefer Mexico. If Obamao’s death care comes to be we will have to choose one or the other but since our son is likely to land up in Texas ehn he to flees the People’s republic of california. Where we will light in Mexico is only a long day’s drive from the border I and mexico will likely triumph with another card for Mexico being the presence of my wife’s California refugeee neices and nephews in Texas.
And no not Primm and certianly not Las Vegas which is nearly as bad a helll as California has become with even worse traffic congestion will not be our nevada location if Death care goes down. My spot is undisclosed but within an hour or so of Las Vegas and out of the Clark County kingdom of the corrupt and venal Dingy Harry Reid machine that along with mobsters he has run for 40 years. Now his son Rory is trying a state takeover the entire state as governor.

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Hello.
I am a full time national tea party organizer/activist.
I would appreciate having a copy of your wonderful blog emailed to me
for wide distribution– informational/ educational purposes only.
You have done an excellent job of articulating a very complex
situation. You have not shirked from placing blame squarely where it lies.

I hope that CA will now realize that the libs are NOT in control,
after we were able to win the MA US Senate seat for Scott Brown.
For the time being, Obamacare is dead. We know they’re re- loading.
So are we!

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Wow, it seems lack of ethicall conduct is endemic to our nation with all these Admins ripping off the tax-payer. They must have dirt on everyone above them I guess. It wouldn’t surprise me, honor is dead in this nation so it has become every man for himself.

May I ask why you would consider Mexico given the instability that is going on and will probably get worse?

And when you say Southern Nevada you mean Vegas or Primm, yes?

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John and Ken of KFI Talk Radio have done an excellent job of exposing the brigandage that exist at all levels of Californai government. The average wage of a California private sector worker is $36,000 a year. For California state employees the average is $66,000 annually(plus benefits and pension costs) What is worse is the same scam is being executed in every California city, county, specail district, and school district in the state. Not surprisingly the media in this state has no interest in reporting on the malfaeasance and pundering of the public treasury by government employees that is all pervasive statewide.
The school district I worked for for 40 years in 2006 maxed teachers salaries out at $76,000 after thirty years experience and 98 semester units beyond a bachelors degree but was paying the principal at the inner city school where I taught for 18 years . In 2008-9 hthe pricipal earned $200,000 annually. Despite the fat salary he filtered off $400,000 in school funds for his own ends and guess what no legal action has been taken against him. A prior principal at the school who departed in 1999 had pulled exactly the same antic and she too was allowed to retire with no action taken against her. Shockingly she was later rehired as a consultant by the district so she could continue collecting her retirement pension and work for the district as an administrator at the same time.
Unless the market in Southern California coastal real estate completely collapses before we can flee in 15 months (so far it has not) we will easily be able to purchase a house in southern Nevada that will be a legal permanent residence that will be home from mid-September through May (or whenever the heat hits) as well as a more modest retreat in a summer cool mountain abode in Southwestern Utah or in the Fairbanks, Alaska area (home to my wife’s forbearers).
The states we are considering are non-nanny states with low taxes. Both Alaska and Nevada have no income tax and most boroughs in Alaska have no sales tax either. Yet all those states offer superior public services compared to dysfunctional tax mad California. If and when dotage & incapacitation overtake us we will likely head for Texas as home where most of our California rborn and reared relatives have fled.
If the democorrupts health care denial act sticks we will out of necessity have to take up residence in either Costa Rica or the state of Jalisco in Mexico where we can purchase an affordable private health coverage for less than we now pay. I worked in a field where the employer(public schools) did not pay into social security or medicare so when my wife retires she too will be on her own for medical insurance a fate that befell me when I hit age 65. We know that the democorrupts ‘reforms’ will wipe out my excellent “cadillac” private insurance plan that presently costs us more than $800 a month rising to over $1,100 when she retires. The destruction of our private policy by Ozero Care will force us to leave the country to avoid gov’t care denial for my asthmatic wife We will be able to afford a health care plan in either of those 2 countries.

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Old One: Thank you for providing even more information. I knew some public employees were making bank, but I had no idea it was that many.

Where do you intend to retire to Old one?

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California pols selling out (other say being bought and paid for) to state employees began with a deal struck betwen state prison guards and the liberal RINO Gov. Earl Warren back in the late 1940s. Ever since that deal more than sisxty years ago the “public safety unions have had the state legislature both Republicans and Democrats in their pockets and their hands ever deeper in the pockets of California taxpayers.
Orange County voters were shocked recently by the revelation that its county sheriff deputies averaged more than $120,000 a year incomes (not including their benefit and retirement package costs) thanks to the deputies scamming overtime pay. Some years ago the California Highway Patrol union got their salaries pegged to those of the police departments in California’s large metro areas. Using a website that lists state payments made to all state employees my son investigated the payments made to an CHP officer who wrote a ticket to a friend of his and discovered that the officer had been paid well over $120,000 in 2008.
Using a websites listing the earning of state employeees one discovers there are tens of thousands of state employees being paid over $100,000 aannually and thousands that receiver many times $100,000 led by figures over a million dollars a year for numerous University of California employees. A real outrage is the fact that hundreds if not thousands of state employees received more than $50,000 last year in overtime pay.
The facts are California governors of both political parties were fattening the pay, benefits, & pension packets of state employees long before Bleak Davis rolled over two turns for public employee unions. In turn state elected officers, governors, and the left-wing democrat dominated legislature all have enjoyed campaign war chests generously greased by state employee organizations and union. The SEIU “represents” almost half of California state employees and funnels huge amounts of money to the democrats campaign war chests.
California’s deficits mushroom as the numbers of state employees, their wages, and benefits packages continue to rise and the California economy suffers and shrinks under a crushing tax burden, regulatory totalitarianism, bureaucratic arrogance, inefficiency, and ramantant incompetence. The state’s economy continues to melt down and California’s most educated, productive, entrepreneurial, and affluent head for Texas, Nevada, Utah,and Arizona.

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Old One’s covered it pretty well, though he (she?) left off the outrageous deals cut by Gray Davis with the public employees unions in the late 90s when the tech bubble was projected to go on forever. A future so bright, you gotta wear shades! We’re stuck with those deals because the state constitutions prohibits restructuring them. I expect we’ll end up where a lot of unionized business have gone before, with a two-tiered benefit system for public employees that screws the younger workers.

One thing no one’s mentioned is that, thanks to redistributive policies at the federal level, California is (or was) a net donor of tax monies to the rest of the country. At one time we got back just 70 cents of every dollar we sent to DC, while a lot of so-called “red states” were net recipients. That’s undoubtedly changed on an absolute basis, though probably not a relative one. So, think about it before tossing us out of the union, OK?

As for California being shades of things to come, well, unlike a profligate national government, California can’t just print it’s way out of the problem with funny money, so in one sense our death spiral can’t end the same way that the national ones will.

Or maybe it can? If the state were cut loose or seceded, then we could fire up the presses! We could print $3 bills with Boxer on them! Naw, jus kidding – we’d put Boxer on the $11 and President for Life Pelosi would be on the three.

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I love the irony, yet hate that it’s happening,of which people claim the Stimulus Money spending is such a great plan. It mirrors what the Wiemar Republic did with their monies to solve an Economical collaspe that it’s disturbing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

The other State’s taxes should not go to feed an ever growing Fenrir in New York, California, or even New Jersey; as this is taxation without Represensation. Yet Federal hunger dwarfs the State budgets drasticly, even having to result to borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars from the Chinese due to the little problem that current tax revenues are far too low to fund current Entitlement programs and upcoming ones. Our nation is face track towards Hyperinflation if the rest of the first (technicaly second) Stimulus bill is spent and if another gets legalized. And most of the money has gone to fake Congressional Districts and pet projects that have not “trickled” into the Economy. There should be audits and investigations of where this money went and to whom. This is on par with Tea Pot scandal (Harding), Crédit Mobilier scandal and even the Bogus agents Scandal (Grant).

Liberals who worship large expansive programs with larger taxation policies in place have always turned a blind eye to how the American people will react to the taxation part: Evading and relocation to lower tax areas. If this nutcase thinks California is a wonderful prime example of Economical Recovery via Centralized Economic policies (Communisism), then he really is blind to the Collapse.

On that idea of scandals, Obama reminds me far more of Ulysses S. Grant in how he’s formed his cabinet and how he constantly defends people with very disturbing backgrounds.

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Just last night while driving, I listened to a Liberal Hack from Sacramento explain how federal stimulus money is justified for California: he explained that the country will follow California out of the recession. Therefore rewarding fiscal irresponsibility is justified because of the collective advantage for all.

Arnold was installed and Davis was deposed in an effort to correct this fiscal irresponsibility; Arnold promised us he would kick those nurses in the butt, although this was only so much impotent bluster from the Obama school. (I didn’t really want him to kick nurses, {his words} but taking a stand would have been impressive for a muscle man.) The only things he accomplished was to make vague and ambiguous statements about education and attend Climate Conferences as if California was some banana republic and the world was going to care what a pathetic actor turned politician had to say.

Yes we should reward irresponsible behavior and incompetent leadership with taxpayer money in an effort to revive the economy.

Bobby great commentary.

Disturber, please continue to disturb the water bucket, it muddies up the water and disrupts the propaganda that will be ladled out to make the Progressive Socialist Agenda more palatable.

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I have to agree with that one, MataHarley. I’m confused as to why an increase in population percentage in unemployement anywhere could be viewed as an improvement to a situation. I thought to improve unemployement you have to decrease the ammount of unemployed, and that heat map does nothing but prove a monthly by monthly increase. Am I living in an insane world when swelling unemployement of Americans is a good thing, or am I the insane one?

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