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2003-08-15 Home Front
Warren Buffett’s California dreamin’
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Posted by .com 2003-08-15 6:16:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 That's 5 Mr. Universe title's bucko ! get it straight !
Posted by Domingo 2003-8-15 8:40:14 AM||   2003-8-15 8:40:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Arnold also got former Sec'ty of State (and Bechtel honcho) George Schultz to join his team to bring back business...he's serious. I'm voting for him
Posted by Frank G  2003-8-15 10:09:09 AM||   2003-8-15 10:09:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Very, very smart move by Arnie -- both Buffett and Schultz. It's going to be very hard for the Dems to discredit Arnie as a lightweight when he shows that he can bring big-hitters on board. Mebbe Conan ain't such a barbarian after all.

Then again, mebbe he'll make a lasso out of Gray Davis' entrails ...
Posted by Steve White  2003-8-15 10:47:23 AM||   2003-8-15 10:47:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Reporter: "Mr. Schwarzenegger, what do you hope to accomplish in this election?"

Arnold: "To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentation of their women!"
Posted by Steve  2003-8-15 11:43:10 AM||   2003-8-15 11:43:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Papers this morning said that Buffet hinted the property taxes were too low. That's not a good thing to start hinting at before an election (or after for that matter).Hope its just idiot reporters inventing a story instead of a real hint.
Posted by Yank 2003-8-15 12:08:05 PM||   2003-8-15 12:08:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Buffett's a liberal. To him, taxes can never be too high. (he can pay those high taxes so it's no skin off his back)
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-8-15 12:41:42 PM||   2003-8-15 12:41:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Great Buffet quote. When asked what he would hope god would say when he went up to the pearly gates. "Boy is that an old one"
Posted by Lucky 2003-8-15 12:45:25 PM||   2003-8-15 12:45:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 except they also said they were adding supply-sider advisors as well, so Buffet won't have Arnold's ear all by hisself
Posted by Frank G  2003-8-15 12:53:59 PM||   2003-8-15 12:53:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't think Buffet is there to advise on tax policy, except where business is concerned - and that is needed. Over the last 31 months, we (CA) have suffered and average of 10,000 jobs eliminated per month. For the 1st time in memory, CA no longer has a single Fortune 500 company based here. Davis and his Marxist cronies only saw businesses as host enitities to bleed dry. Well they pretty much succeeded. Get a good look people at what happens when Democrats own the executive, legislative and also judicial branches of govt. This was supposed to be the grand laboritory of the next New Deal. Feh!
Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-8-15 1:40:36 PM||   2003-8-15 1:40:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Rex Mundi hit it right on the nose. It's getting harder and hardet to believe, but at one point California was the greatest state in the union, you know.
Posted by Secret Master  2003-8-15 2:20:38 PM|| [www.budgetwarrior.com]  2003-8-15 2:20:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Anyone who lives in Californicate and votes democratic in the next election should be IMMEDIATELY committed to some high security psychiatic hospital as a danger to himself or sent to Mexico since they must love chaos.

California has had a net decline in population for the first time since the Permian extinction. To make matters worse, California has had over 2 million people in the "middle class" leave the state and since the trial lawyer's welfare fund workman's comp is out of control, every business that can't leave the state is exporting jobs to India, Maylasia, Mississippi and other third world countries. It is a screaming mess. Ann "The Blowtorch" Coulter has a great editorial on Californicate on her website that would be funny if it wasn't so painfully true.

If things get much worse here, the world court could convict "Empty Suit" Davis of war crimes.

Posted by SOG475  2003-8-15 4:23:09 PM||   2003-8-15 4:23:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 When / if I leave Thailand and return - I won't be going back to beautiful San Diego - I'll opt for either Texas or a mountain state, if I locate one without a State Income Tax and a decent biz climate.

Mebbe Arnold and Warren and George will transform CA before then. I hope so, for those Rantburgers who live there. For now, they deserve the benefit of the doubt, methinks.

Does anyone here think someone, other than Arnold, has a bona-fide chance to win this election? I've been out of the loop for 3 years and don't know enuff to be relatively certain. So how 'bout it?
Posted by .com 2003-8-15 5:43:41 PM||   2003-8-15 5:43:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I like McClintock's resume, but it's Arnold's to lose. I say he takes it.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-8-15 6:39:21 PM||   2003-8-15 6:39:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 McClintock is a good man, but he's been eclipsed by Arnold
Posted by Frank G  2003-8-15 6:44:28 PM||   2003-8-15 6:44:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Davis and his Marxist cronies only saw businesses as host enitities to bleed dry.

Davis is no more Marxist than Arnie's Buffett, who doesn't see China as 'red'. He only sees the green of their dirty oil money. I think he got scared in the past week since he announced he'd bankroll Arnie and he tried to divest his commie oil stake in China's Petrochem.

Here's a sorry chronology of his investments:

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has a stake in PetroChina Co., the nation's top oil producer


Buffett's vote of confidence in China




Buffett boosts PetroChina stake



SinoChem, PetroChina and CNOOC are the three companies that dominate and
determine the development of the Chinese petrol industry
Posted by fullwood 2003-8-15 9:07:08 PM|| []  2003-8-15 9:07:08 PM|| Front Page Top

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