California is almost a Trillion in CALPERS obligation. The reality is CALPERS is only funded to less than 70%. The public sector has voted themselves immense raises with Firefighter leadership making well over $400K a year. One gets to retire at 50 in California and get paid 6 figures in retirement. This is paid for off the backs of the private sector as the pension plan is losing ground even with a stock market over the 40K mark. At some point, everything that is unsustainable will come crashing down. Just like they have kicked the can down the road for decades when it came to fire management, the CA legislators have done nothing to solve their retirement debt. They have simply kicked it down the road. It is state law that if the economy in CA goes seriously wrong, everything including infrastructure takes a back seat to paying CALPERs recipients.
If CA succeeds from the US, they most certainly will hurt their own states environment for business and the revenue it generates. We have seen a large amount of corporate money leave the state already not to mention many high earning taxpayers who have run and taken their revenue with them. There is no way CA can go it alone but watch some dumb democrats try.
Without Reno, the Western Alliance will crumble within years. I'd go as far to say whoever controls Reno wins the war. Vegas, Spokane, Phoenix, Boise, these are nice aims, but Reno is really the heart of the battle. The Gates of the West, if you will.
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Yup they'd lose their water rights
California is almost a Trillion in CALPERS obligation. The reality is CALPERS is only funded to less than 70%. The public sector has voted themselves immense raises with Firefighter leadership making well over $400K a year. One gets to retire at 50 in California and get paid 6 figures in retirement. This is paid for off the backs of the private sector as the pension plan is losing ground even with a stock market over the 40K mark. At some point, everything that is unsustainable will come crashing down. Just like they have kicked the can down the road for decades when it came to fire management, the CA legislators have done nothing to solve their retirement debt. They have simply kicked it down the road. It is state law that if the economy in CA goes seriously wrong, everything including infrastructure takes a back seat to paying CALPERs recipients.
If CA succeeds from the US, they most certainly will hurt their own states environment for business and the revenue it generates. We have seen a large amount of corporate money leave the state already not to mention many high earning taxpayers who have run and taken their revenue with them. There is no way CA can go it alone but watch some dumb democrats try.
This is going to be fascinating.
Secedes*
Solid Freudian slip tho.
That’s what I’ve been posting since their SoS approved the petition-gathering process.
I hope they vote to secede. Can I send money to a PAC supporting secession?
Over 40% of California is federal land, so they’d have to negotiate for those areas I suppose?
Immediate authoritarian government is my guess, too, since they wouldn’t have a pesky Bill of Rights to worry about.
A secular cult full of brain-dead idiots.
Without Reno, the Western Alliance will crumble within years. I'd go as far to say whoever controls Reno wins the war. Vegas, Spokane, Phoenix, Boise, these are nice aims, but Reno is really the heart of the battle. The Gates of the West, if you will.
You got any younger Sarah Palins for me? I wanna do some work. Montana is calling.
You could probably go to Missoula and get some Brokeback action. Seems more your thing.
I've thought about getting property around Missoula. Crazy pricey though. Kalispell would be prime. Also pricey.
Squatting in a camper on public land isn’t “getting property,” Ernie.
That would be a solid way to get a 4th property.
DM me, maybe we can fuck in it, fag
I'm fine with the blue areas leaving and the rest of us rejoining the United States and getting our rights back.
Idaho is closed!