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Arley2 Wrote: Jan 23, 2013 1:51 PM

John, John..................haven't you heard???? California now has a balanced budget................per Jerry (Moonbeam) Brown. How that could happen is akin to magic given that the CA debt is massive. I still don't believe it, but hey Ole Gov Moonbeam says it's true. You don't suppose Jerry would lie to us, do you?

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Shopping Around for a Better Life

Thanks, California! Thanks for your monstrous spending and absurd regulatory overreach! America needs you. We need Connecticut and Illinois, too! We need you the way we needed the Soviet Union, as models of failure, to warn us what happens if we believe those who say, "Government can."

Moving to California was once the dream for many Americans. Its population grew at almost triple the national average -- until 1990. Then big government, in the form of endless regulation and taxes, killed much of the dream. In the last decade, 2 million people left California.

Many of them moved to Alaska, Florida,...

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