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November 5, 2010,
Your Wednesday
cartoon was appropriate, except in California, where
we have become Democratic/Liberal from top to bottom.
I am wondering what the people of the state are thinking
when they do things like this. What are they expecting
to happen? How can a bunch of liberals not want to raise
taxes? How many businesses will want to hang around when
they are getting battered with taxes?
The pending government was
elected by the state unions. Are they really expecting
more pay/benefits/compensation/higher pensions? Where do
they think this money is going to come from? Especially
when the businesses are going to be fleeing the state in
mass quantities. What do you think of in Oklahoma? Besides
tornadoes and the occasional ice storm?
--Jim Rockwood
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You mean, what do Oklahomans
think of California? Something like this: Ha ha ha ha!
Yes, we know. That's cruel.
And it is, but then, we've had to put up with over 70 years
of "Grapes
Of Wrath" jokes, so we might have a reason to
be a little bitter at the Golden State.
In our now-top-to-bottom conservative
state, we're living large. Oklahoma has a 6.9
percent unemployment rate (compared to 12.4
for California). And though the recession has hit here,
too, the Sooner state's budget shortfall of about 15 percent
of the budget is still better than California, which is
21.6 percent short (almost
$18 billion!).
Funny you should mention fleeing
businesses. Just recently Boeing
announced that 800 jobs were leaving Long Beach, California
for --you guessed it-- Oklahoma City. And where will all
those aerospace engineers live? Well, in Long Beach, a
$350,000 house looks like this.
By comparison, here's
what you get for the same money in Oklahoma. Not too
shabby, eh?
So pack up the buggy and head
east, young man! Hey, we've even got earthquakes here
now, so you'll feel right at home!
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