Comments on: Economist outlines CA road to prosperity

By: CalWatchdog

CalWatchdog — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:18:43 +0000

Dee: We’ve had some server issues we had to deal with over the weekend. But we just posted your comments. I’m sorry for any inconvenience.

I’m going to check out the study you mentioned after Christmas.

— John Seiler, Managing Editor

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:59:59 +0000

Evidently my comment this morning didn’t fit your purpose – was not deemed as publishable comment. A comment that offered your readers the chance to compare two reports – looking at the exact same statistics. So your intent is not to educate your readers – but to inculcate them with a specific,particular and limited meme. How unenlightening.

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:40:36 +0000

I would strongly suggest rather than blindly accepting the data presented in ALEC’s Rich States Poor States that you also consider a report done that looked at the information presented in the ALEC report –

” A new study finds that state tax and regulatory policies recommended by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) fail to promote stronger job creation or income growth, and actually predict a worse performance.

Since ALEC first published its annual Rich States , Poor States study with its Economic Outlook Ranking in 2007, states that were rated better have actually done worse economically.”

http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/snakeoiltothestates

By: The Modified Ted Steele Methodologies (tm)

The Modified Ted Steele Methodologies (tm) — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:07:59 +0000

Katy— I hope you’re wrong and that the Dems balance the next budget. That would be a good start.

By: Dirtbos

Dirtbos — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:46:33 +0000

It is not a matter of if, but a matter of when. Hopefully some common sense and logic will rise from the ashes of the impending California financial meltdown. The left has a strangle hold on this state and will destroy it financially. It is inevitable, barring an epiphany on the part of some California voters. But I don’t hold out much hope for that.

By: CalWatchdog

CalWatchdog — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:32:29 +0000

I agree Phineas – the left will never allow reform to happen as long as they are in power.

Katy

By: Phineas

Phineas — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:10:00 +0000

Like Otellini, I fear California is going to have to crash before it can recover. It’s just mindboggling — both how we’ve take one of the richest, most productive states in the Union and run it into the ground, and how naturally strong our economy must be, that it’s taken this many years of bad governance to do it. Gives me hope though; with just some reform, recovery might be swift.

But the left will never allow that to happen. 🙁

By: The Modified Ted Steele Methodologies (tm)

The Modified Ted Steele Methodologies (tm) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:32:55 +0000

Katy– Well done— interesting pov! — Ted!!!

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:59:42 +0000

CEO Paul Otellini recently told the Wall Street Journal. The microchip giant hasn’t added a job in California more than 10 years and closed its last factory in the state around six years ago. “Oh God. I was born and raised here. I’m fifth or sixth generation. It’s one of the nicest pieces of real estate on the planet, and we’re so close to screwing it up, it’s pathetic,”

The most salient point is that not a single job has been added in the state for this tech giant, that is very telling.

By: Mrs. White

Mrs. White — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:15:04 +0000

“There are not many, even among educators and statesmen, who comprehend the causes that underlie the present state of society. Those who hold the reins of government are not able to solve the problem of moral corruption, poverty, pauperism, and increasing crime. They are struggling in vain to place business operations on a more secure basis. If men would give more heed to the teaching of God’s word, they would find a solution of the problems that perplex them.

The Scriptures describe the condition of the world just before Christ’s second coming. Of the men who by robbery and extortion are amassing great riches, it is written: “Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.” James 5:3-6.

But who reads the warnings given by the fast-fulfilling signs of the times? What impression is made upon worldlings? What change is seen in their attitude? No more than was seen in the attitude of the inhabitants of the Noachian world. Absorbed in worldly business and pleasure, the antediluvians “knew not until the Flood came, and took them all away.” Matthew 24:39.

They had heaven-sent warnings, but they refused to listen. And today the world, utterly regardless of the warning voice of God, is hurrying on to eternal ruin.”