bleak

http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/th ... ifornians/

"Bleak? But such stats do not necessarily translate into the bad life for those Californians who vote — a least in comparison, I suppose, to Minnesota’s winters, Mississippi’s rate of welfare payouts, Baltimore’s streets, or Mexico’s police. We are living on the fumes of natural wealth and a century of prior investment by some pretty hard-working and far-sighted long dead Californians; and it takes a long time to screw all that up.

Indeed, the state’s voting population accepts the status quo: the growing underclass expects entitlements always to grow even greater; state employees are more than happy with in-the-future-unsustainable benefits and packages; and the coastal elite have enough money that they do not care whether they have to pay a bit more to subsidize others and create tranquility in their anointed souls. Meanwhile, California is clear and 78 degrees without humidity — in late September.

Fiddling While…"

Manana? Don't worry about today. It will be magically taken care of.

Quietism

"How do sane people, without great wealth that might provide exemption from all this, cope? They tune out. They psychologically drop out, in the manner of the ancient quietists of Athens in the 4th-century B.C. (the apragmones in search of hesuchia) who learned that one cannot fight the mob, but only seek to escape it. I bump into and talk with these latter-day quietists quite often. They are generally happy folk but have developed a certain psychological protocol by which to survive. The quietist trusts more the ancient wisdom in hallowed texts that warns democracy implodes when the masses finally assume absolute control and vote themselves entitlements that even the shrinking rich can no longer sustain. So they don’t get in the way between the mob and their entitlements."

I would say the time has come to be a quietist.

Since you didn't see fit to source your material,...here...let me do it for you:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2939121/posts

"Don't worry, we have plenty of money" "W"'s words to my dad when they met in 2006.

I don't think this was true then and I know it isn't true now. Debt at 200% of yearly GDP with entitlement spending rising at a dangerous rate cannot continue.

Leftist response, but we signed contracts for those benefits, you promised us this. Ask the Native Americans if they trust the promises of the Feds.

Democracy4Sale wrote: Since you didn't see fit to source your material,...here...let me do it for you:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2939121/posts

Lionshead's quote was from page 2 of the OP source link. Looks like the author is a columnist on the pjmedia site. And so the article was also posted elsewhere and referenced to pjmedia. So what?

It was a good read, thanks for posting it Bob. A point of view from a Californian, read his bio.

So what...So, if you're going to post a lengthy piece of someone else's work, you should attribute it... Otherwise, it's plagiarism.

Otherwise known in Rightie-circles as "intellectual property theft", which...in capitalistic circles...is otherwise known as stealing. My, you guys love to scream about compensation for "small business" and work. Is stealing someone else's material, (i.e., their "work product") without attribution irrelevant when it suits your purpose?

I know know where Lionhead's quote came from...I found it in 20-30 different places. As I said in my original post:

"Since you didn't see fit to source your material,...here...let me do it for you:..." I really don't give a rat's ass if I sourced it from the ORIGINAL source, or the best one I could find at the time. The point is: I sourced it for Lionhead, since Lionhead didn't.

You got a problem with that?...Ask me if I care...

Do you care?

In other words you have no response to the content as usual.

Side bar: How do get away with quoting so much content of the pieces you paste. I would like to do it to but when I try I get my hand slapped.

Democracy4Sale wrote: So what...So, if you're going to post a lengthy piece of someone else's work, you should attribute it... Otherwise, it's plagiarism.

Otherwise known in Rightie-circles as "intellectual property theft", which...in capitalistic circles...is otherwise known as stealing. My, you guys love to scream about compensation for "small business" and work. Is stealing someone else's material, (i.e., their "work product") without attribution irrelevant when it suits your purpose?

I know know where Lionhead's quote came from...I found it in 20-30 different places. As I said in my original post:

"Since you didn't see fit to source your material,...here...let me do it for you:..." I really don't give a rat's ass if I sourced it from the ORIGINAL source, or the best one I could find at the time. The point is: I sourced it for Lionhead, since Lionhead didn't.

You got a problem with that?...Ask me if I care...

From what I read of the original "content", you don't like the way California runs its state.

My comment: Don't live there.

I don't like the way Utah runs their state. I won't live there.

Are we done?