We are a group of “United States” each with ability to decide local issues

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Living in Taxifornia now, but coming from a small state (electorally speaking) I can say the wisdom of your meme, Bluessol, is absolutely outstanding! Off the freakin' charts!

Meme rating: Epic Success!

If the socialists running the show in Sacramento had their way, the entire country would be run the same way they run things here in Taxifornia. And trust me when I say this, I've lived in a sensible, well run midwestern state, and I've lived in Taxifornia, and Taxifornia is not doing it right. In fact, we go out of our way to do it wrong!

Actually, if somebody wanted to issue a plan for "how not to run your state', all they'd need to do is document everything our socialist leaders do here in Taxifornia.

Yup we have a beautiful state that they are destroying by idiocy and political virtue signaling

My wife and I would really like to come back to California to retire because the weather is perfect. But not when it is run by communists. That's why we left.

Yup best weather in the country between LA and San Diego. It is really bad now though, the communist policies of no prosecution for any crime short of murder is intolerable. Repeat offenders offending repeatedly and aggressive insane homeless at every gas station and convenience and grocery store.

That's really sad. I grew up in the LA area. I lived most of my life there. We moved to the Bay Area for our last 3 years because of a job and then we left California in the year 2000.

My wife misses it the most. She was born and raised there (my family move there when I was around 5 years old).

I learned to ski there and I learned to Scuba dive there. I was in my 20's in the 1980's listening to KROQ with all that great New Wave music. I think the 1980's were the last good years of California. The 90's were okay. After we left in 2000 I just watched California fall to pieces. When California re-elected that idiot Jerry Brown for governor I thought this was the end. I had no idea it could even get worse with Gavin Newsom.

My brother still lives there and would probably leave in a heartbeat if it wasn't for his wife and his kids and grand kids. My wife has a lot of family and friends still living there. We go visit them every other year or so.

What is amazing to me is there are about 5 or 6 California ex-pats who I knew in California who now live up here in Utah. 2 of them I went to High School with. There are a ton of other California ex-pats who I have met since moving here. I kind of think they are one of the reasons why property values skyrocketed in Utah. Fortunately we bought our house while they were still reasonable. I could not afford my house if I wanted to buy it today. It's worth around $600,000 now and I paid just a little over $200,000 for it. I'm thinking that maybe I should be a snob or something because my house is worth so much. "Oh Jeeves, could you bring me the caviar?" LOL. However, it isn't like I could sell my house and cash out because all of the houses in Utah are just as expensive or more. Well... I'm babbling now so I'll shut up.

I live in a state that was once humble. But now that California moved in, the farm land is cluttered with homes every 1/2 mile apart, 25 years ago the homes were 15 to 20 miles apart. Homes usually had a value from 56,000 to 90,000 now everything is over 100,000 to 600,000 even abandoned shaks are worth gold. I just don't get it. Then when it snows people from not around the town wonder why they froze to death in a ditch, or flew off the road. Because 4WD means they can drive speed limit on ice and snow. Then about after 3 years of carpet Bagging the area, they take their riches and leave, while the poor ones stuck in the state are left holding the bankrupt bag.

Not all of us are causing problems like that. I already knew how to drive in snow before we left California. We moved from California about 22 years ago and moved to Missouri and then Utah. We didn't build a house out in the country taking up farm land. We bought houses that already existed before we moved there. Now the house in Missouri was built on farm land but we did not cause that house to be built.

We are not rich and we did not move to get rich, we moved because we could not afford a house in California and were tired of their communist government. And it appears we left before it got real bad.

My house in Utah was selling for about $200,000 when we bought it. It is now worth about $600,000. We didn't cause that and if we sold the house we would have to move out of state to profit on the sale of the house because everywhere in Utah is just as expensive.

Utah is one of the states that has been overrun by Californians. I know a whole lot of people who live here who once lived in California. I even know a few people who I went to high school with who are living in Utah. But there is another reason for that. Utah, as everyone knows, was settled by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who were fleeing persecution. Utah is the state with the highest population of member of the Church. The second highest population of members of the LDS Church is in California, specifically Southern California. So there has always been a migration back and forth between the two states. But lately it has mostly been a one way migration out of California.

As bad as you think Californian have ruined where you live (and no doubt some of them have, I am not denying that) the reason they are there is because of what the Democrat control freak government has done to the state. California was once the most desired state to live in. Now everyone is fleeing the state because of the government.

The problem occurs when it is Democrats who flee the state not realizing they were the ones who caused the problem they are running from. Then they move into another state and start voting for the same policies that killed California. I am NOT a Democrat. Democrats have taken over Salt Lake City and are destroying that city but the rest of the state is still conservative and that is where all of the job growth and the booming economy is. I don't live in SLC.

It is astonishing how bad it has become. Defunct rvs and cars line the streets for miles in some areas mixed with tents and garbage. Most freeway off-ramps have a homeless camp in the bushes. Hell I have seen guys who are living up on the freeway sign platforms with cardboard modifications. It is disgusting that they do nothing but give them drugs and the paraphernalia to use. They have nothing to lose if they assault you or take your stuff. You do, if you chase them or try to get your stuff you get charged with assault and fined heavily or jailed if they get hurt. It is Dystopia. City of LA is gone. Hollywood is taking your life in your hands hoping some nut job don’t start going off.it’s a f**cking shame.

Wow! That's awful. It sounds worse than I could have imagined. I grew up mostly east of LA, near Pomona. My brother lives in Huntington Beach and my wife was born in Ontario. So when we go back to So. Cal. we don't go near the downtown area. But I know it is bad all over. I remember seeing videos of homeless camps for miles up and down the Santa Ana river trail in Orange County. My wife and I used to bike that trail from Corona all the way to Huntington Beach and back. There may have been one or two homeless people on that trail back in the 90's. After the images and the videos went viral I think they cleared out the homeless but I'll bet they're all back.

This is what happens when you have decades of leftist policies in place. They killed far too many jobs in a place that cost far too much to live. A lot of people went homeless directly because of all of that liberal compassion that is running the state.

Move to Utah. Property values may have gone up but the economy here has been booming ever since we moved here. Even during the pandemic, we were still going pretty strong. The people are really nice. Doctors do not treat you like cattle. The only problem is you will have to learn to drive in the snow and if you buy a house, you'll need to buy at least a snow shovel. Global Warming hasn't taken our cold winters away. And if you ski, we have the best snow on earth. That is if you can afford skiing. I'm glad that I learned to ski in the 80's when it was affordable, even to a guy that made just a little more than minimum wages. I just can't see spending that much now that I am old and out of shape. I just could never get my money's worth.

That was the beauty of it. I grew up between LA and North Orange County. You could go surfing in the morning and be skiing at Baldy in the afternoon. You could be in the desert, mountains, or beach in an hour just had to decide what you wanted to do.

Leftists have the reverse Midas touch. Instead of everything Midas touched turning to gold, the reverse of that is everything turning to pig feces.

The left took the great state of California and turned the entire state into pig feces.

IF California ever does split into 2 or more states were moving back to the state who rejects left's version of California. Even if that means we have to live in Modesto.

Good One - 20f68v.jpg (click to show) Meme Upvoted! - So very true!

Made this a few years ago.

So true. Unfortunately the left has found a way around that by overloading New York and California, the two states with the most electors. Just those two states pretty much determine the outcome of all of our elections. Those states can't do it alone but it doesn't take too many more blue states to dominate the election.

And then when you through voter fraud on top of that, then there now really is only one party, the fascist party who call themselves Democrats.

Unfortunate you may be right

how does that make any sense, shouldn't 1 person have the same voting power as another, no matter what state they r from???

It makes sense because what’s good for people on New York or San Francisco may not be for people who live in Nebraska or Ohio. Simple majority rule is often times tyranny.

Agreed. One of the fundamental tenets of our system is to protect the Rights of the minority from the tyranny of the majority. The founders were no fools.

They were thoughtful men who pondered what freedom was.

HAHAHAHA R U SERIOUS OH MY GOD AMERICANS R ACTUALLY SO INSANE THERE'S NO WAY U ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS

Absolutely true. It wasn’t 2022 wokester. The world was a very different place but the document they created served as the basis for freedom from governemnt tyranny that gave rise to the greatest democracy the world has known with most opportunity for anyone from anywhere. It’s ok haters gonna hate. What paradise are you from? One who bows to the Queen I bet 😂

There's a story I read, though I can't remember it in exact detail, but the basic gist of it was this.

I believe it took place in California during a drought, or it may have even been a hypothetical as example. One of the big cities, like LA or San Diego, voted to redirect the water being used for irrigation and such by all the farms in proximity. This meant the farms couldn't produce their crops, the farmers couldn't make any money to feed their families, and other places that relied on those crops to feed their populations were also adversely affected.

All because a single area with a high, dense population voted to take what they wanted from a much lower population spread out over a wider area.

It's exactly like the kind of thing depicted in The Hunger Games, as I mention in the meme I posted above in reply to another thread.

Plus, the right to an equal say in the running of the country is the primary reason most states signed on to be members of the country in the first place. The abrogation of that right is one of the main reasons southern states chose to secede from the union, leading to the Civil War.

Get rid of the electoral college, and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of states attempted to secede NOW.

Oops, I didn't post my meme as a reply to another thread, but as its own comment on this meme.