California...It's a Failed State!

Don't worry about impending cuts to the world's 8th-largest economy. There's an upside in the Bear Flag Banana Republic.

Wed June 3, 2009 4:57 PM PST

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Mark Fiore is an editorial cartoonist and animator whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of other publications. He is an active member of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, and has a web site featuring his work.


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CA did it to themselves

Like it or not, the blame for where they are now is sqarely on their own shoulders, they got too greedy, siphoned too much money out of the citizens, ended up driving people out of business, didn't tend their borders, have cities that think they're their own states, generally the appearance from outside just isn't that appealing, and the look of the place from the inside has people leaving, leaving behind people that are going to be hard-pressed to make up the difference.

BTW, wasn't CA the world's FIFTH largest economy, just 2 years ago? Hmmmm...

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As if...

The blackbird
lives in a
country like
a rose in the
dreamland,
and even a
pleasure declares
in a moment
that intention
of love.

Francesco Sinibaldi

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