During the cold war bases were largely forward deployed and CA was a net taker. After the cold war ended, the CA bases were disproportionately closed because they were expensive and there were more of them.
Ignoring the billions that CA took before it became a contributor isn't reasonable.
They likely won't take you though. Not as tough as Canada to get into but still no cakewalk. They control their borders and criticize others who want to do the same.
WWII torpedoes for one. They didn't understand the science of how liquefied gas fuels flowed. To the extent they fixed the fuel line issues it was trial and error.
We shall see about that. If he doesn't Trump won't be scared off by the dirt Hillary has on the old school Republicans (Bill and Hillary have had some miraculous escapes from justice already). Could get interesting real fast.
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Same thing that stops Quebec.
If Quebec left Canada, about half of Quebec would leave and go back to Canada. The first thing they would do is make the whole place English only.
Drive from N. Cal to San Diego and watch the trash on the side of the roads increase with every mile south.
Mexicans litter like pigs. It's just a fact.
No. Factually wrong.
Just not true.
Colorado river water is only used in S. Cal.
Almost all the ag water in the central valley comes from the Sacramento river system.
_All_ of it does.
Go ahead, eat downer cattle (where most 'grass fed'* beef comes from).
Leaves more of the good stuff for the rest of us.
* all beef is 'grass fed', the good stuff also gets lots of grain in the last 6 weeks of life.
Rivers flow between nations all over the world.
Do you know what happens when upstream nations dam them and keep all the water? Usually the dam gets bombed.
If you're not making them sweat, you are doing it wrong.
The debt _is_ (largely) their share of the SS and medicare trust funds. Duh. There is nothing there debt.
That's a relatively recent change.
During the cold war bases were largely forward deployed and CA was a net taker. After the cold war ended, the CA bases were disproportionately closed because they were expensive and there were more of them.
Ignoring the billions that CA took before it became a contributor isn't reasonable.
The SS trust fund hasn't had an operating surplus in about a decade.
Money is, in fact, flowing the other way. Ink isn't dry.
Also note the size of the CA economy. The western part of the US would be smart to watch themselves to avoid getting crushed.
The water compact that already includes Mexico?
Let us see how the rest of the US likes trading with the Pacific rim via the Panama canal, or paying a CA transit tariff.
Most of CA's water comes from the Sacramento river. Watershed is 100% in CA.
About 1/3 of LA's water comes from the Colorado river, which runs through CA. Under water rights laws as they exist the water belongs to CA.
You might want to look a the geography of CA before spouting off again.
Lager beer came from Germany? GP is a fuckwit.
They would never allow it to split along political lines.
Coast range and west is liberal. Central valley and Sierra Nevada is conservative.
Instead they would want S. Cal, run by LA and San Diego and N. Cal run by SF.
California did not vote for Bernie in the primary.
Granting the nuts on the streets now are mostly left-tards, at least half are there just to get laid, the rest are just morons.
He said he would accept the results if they were clear, demand recounts etc if they were not. Just like every other candidate.
Mexico's offer was laughable. We might have to accept, best we can get for it.
Talk is cheap.
They likely won't take you though. Not as tough as Canada to get into but still no cakewalk. They control their borders and criticize others who want to do the same.
2/3 of some crops. Nowhere close to 2/3 of the total dollar value.
WWII torpedoes for one. They didn't understand the science of how liquefied gas fuels flowed. To the extent they fixed the fuel line issues it was trial and error.
It's still federally illegal, everybody knows it.
The feds also don't have the budget to enforce pot laws nationally, everybody knows it.
The feds further can't find juries to convict on pot charges, everybody knows it.
No state claims to make it 'legal', just not against state law. Which is all that matters on the ground.
We shall see about that. If he doesn't Trump won't be scared off by the dirt Hillary has on the old school Republicans (Bill and Hillary have had some miraculous escapes from justice already). Could get interesting real fast.
Nice job 'correcting the record'.