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2009-02-28 Home Front Economy

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-28 10:37|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 The "Western State" folks will go ape-sh*t because a huge chunk of California's tax revenue (and food and water) (and socioeconomic victims 'we need to help' - in words only) comes from the "Eastern State". The Pacific Coastal Commission would be a good first place to look to find their new bureaucracy.

Plus, they won't be able to legislate how the "Easterners" can do business anymore.

The "Westerners" could locate their new capital to Richmond and empathize with the folks there.

This I'm sure is not going to happen, but it's actually not the absolute worst idea I've heard to date.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-02-28 11:36|| 2009-02-28 11:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Western Californistan, more commonly referred to as the Caza Strip. Make it so!

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-28 11:42|| 2009-02-28 11:42|| Front Page Top

#3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Jefferson

Posted by Penguin 2009-02-28 11:48|| 2009-02-28 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 This isn't new: there have been a couple dozen attempts to split Laficornia according to Wiki.

Posted by Steve White 2009-02-28 11:57|| 2009-02-28 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Great....give 'em two more Senators as wonderful as Boxer and Feinstein so the rest of the country can give them even more money.

I don't think so, guys.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-02-28 14:03|| 2009-02-28 14:03|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm in "eastern California" and I'd love to see this happen, but it never will. Just for starters, the sate is too incompetent to even go through the process of splitting itself. It's not even comptetent enough to carry out sentences on its death row inmates. An inmate on death row has far greater odds of dying from old age, than from execution. Perhaps when the state finally implodes into bankruptcy, something can happen. There's gotta be a better name than "Eastern California", though. Perhaps "Free California" would be better.

Posted by AuburnTom 2009-02-28 18:29|| 2009-02-28 18:29|| Front Page Top

#7 The usual proposal is Northern California wants the counties north of Bakersfield and Southern California wants the counties south of Bakersfield. Nobody seems to want Bakersfield.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-28 19:05|| 2009-02-28 19:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Split it int three states if not four. Then, two of them, Bay Area and LA, would have to start housing all the criminals they produce instead of exporting them to civilized areas.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-02-28 19:45|| 2009-02-28 19:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Just watching the fight over water rights would be down right entertaining.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-02-28 22:25|| 2009-02-28 22:25|| Front Page Top

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