Why I hate California. Part Deux.

California is like the second most beautiful and gifted girl in the class (of 50 students, New York is obviously #1), who took up with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks (the left) and ended up in a dilapidated trailer park puffing on a cigarette and chugging cheap whiskey.


California is so overrated. Let's start:

1. Weather is highly overrated. Cold and foggy. 
2. Costs for routine things are ridiculous (gas, register a car, etc). Demonstrates complete mismanagement of the state.
3. Try to engage with government on any level…what a joke (drivers license, register vehicle, pay a tax bill in person, etc). Aside from never being open, the lines are horrible and the competence of the employees in most of the levels of government border on 1st grade education. The state and local government here really is the ‘employer of last resort’
4. Environmentalist wackjobs – the original California fruits and nuts: When people talk about how California is the land of fruits and nuts, they’re not talking about grapes and almonds (although those used to be bountiful crops of our fertile California farmland). No, they’re talking about the people who have made it a lot harder to grow grapes and almonds – or businesses of any kind, really.
5. California schools stink: In CA they keep running the same experiments, over and over, to see if they can get new and better results! Nowhere is this insanity more heartbreaking than in the state’s public schools. They are a disgrace. And just like other school systems across the country that are entrenched in unions, massive financial waste and too many administrators, California’s schools are a case study in failure. A couple of very recent examples should bring this home.Your (California) tax dollars at work!
6. California colleges stink too: Let’s leave elementary school behind, and go to college (which is more than those kids in Oakland will be able to do). Let’s visit the vaunted University of California system, which used to be the pride of the state. These days, not so much, as it has become overrun with the very worst kind of leftists. But our example today involves a particularly sickening display of absolute disregard for free speech. It started when Muslim students rudely and repeatedly disrupted a speech by the Israeli ambassador. You really have to see the video to appreciate the level of disrespect shown here. Now here’s the kicker. The Orange County District Attorney is charging them with misdemeanor criminal charges for their behavior, which, as there is apparently a law against this type of malicious disruption, is understandable, since video shows them clearly breaking said law. However, a hundred of UC Irvine’s finest professorial minds have come together to protest the D.A.’s attempt to do his job. They want the D.A. to drop the charges, they say. Let the healing continue, they say (uh, what healing?). This sets a dangerous precedent, they say! After all, we can’t have students, especially Muslim students, prosecuted for illegal acts, now can we? Again – your (California) tax dollars at work!
7. Illegals are ruining the state: Like every state which shares a border with Mexico, California is being overrun with illegals. Unlike every state which shares a border with Mexico, they welcome them with open arms. In fact, they pass out a pamphlet, in San Diego schools, showing (illegal) kids how to evade the immigration cops (they are, after all, the bad guys). This also has the added benefit of teaching all the children, including the American ones, that it’s okay to try to circumvent laws that are capital B Bad (like immigration laws, of course!). California carries a vastly disproportionate share of the nation’s welfare recipients. There are a number of dysfunctional reasons for this, but the fact that they encourage illegals to park it here clearly isn’t helping. Just for fun, let’s inject, right here, a note of sanity. Here’s a look at how a state full of sane people handles the problem of illegal aliens: They deport them, solve their prison overcrowding issue, and save millions of dollars. And to think they Hollywood people regularly mock the folks from Tennessee and surrounding states as backward hicks. Makes it pretty clear who’s REALLY got everything all bass-ackwards, now doesn’t it?
8. California’s restrictive gun laws are NOT saving lives: When you outlaw guns, only outlaws have guns. Or crazy people that the state is too incompetent to find and disarm. Like the Californian who shot his mom 16 times before going next door to kill the neighbor and her 4-year-old daughter. He wasn’t supposed to have a gun. Oops. The New York Times article that tells the story, being, well, the New York Times and all, assumes that the problem is that the guy was EVER able to buy a gun, even before he “went crazy.” But that’s just because the NYT (and its little sister, the L.A. Times) are all batshit crazy themselves over gun control. Actually, California law enforcement might have plenty of time to find and disarm those who’ve been found mentally incompetent – if they weren’t busy handing out $600 traffic tickets in an effort to balance bloated California government budgets on the backs of the poor taxpayers guilty of nothing worse than a California stop! While we’re on the subject of crime, it’s good to know that California prisons have such tight security. Only one of the world’s most notorious murderers has gotten caught with contraband – a cellphone – again. So if you get a call from Charles Manson, just hang up. Chatting will only encourage him, and clearly the prisons in California aren’t equipped to curb this type of rule-breaking, so we’ll all have to do our part.
9. You can never escape those dangerous earthquakes that occur a little too often. I don’t know about you, but I like my ground to remain stable, thankyouverymuch. Another thing I like: living without the fear of wildfires burning me to a crisp as I sleep.
10. I can barely watch The Real Housewives of the OC without cringing, and cant imagine having to see these women (and the millions of others just like them in Cali) in real life.  I might freak out, melt down, and have to get Botox to regain any sense of normalcy.
11. Seeing famous people every day might be cool, but knowing that some of the world’s most obnoxious and utterly ridiculous celebrities call that state home kind of turns me off.  I might just gag if I have to see Heidi or Spencer one more time on TV or in a magazine. Seeing them in person? Well, I think I’ll stay on the opposite side of the country.
12. California traffic is known to be ridiculous, and coming from the fast paced New York City lifestyle, I’m not sure that would quite work for me.
13. Run down construction and housing
14. Overpriced pathetic housing
15. Rude arrogant people
16.  Everything between the nice scenery is pretty dirty
17. Most importantly, I’d probably miss my Timberland boots, my peacoat, my scarf and knit hat (oh, and states where gay couples can be married).  And who can turn down a good snowball fight?  Looks like I’ll be staying on the East Coast for a while ... or forever. Thank god. 

From a friend: "I have to live here, if you don't then don't! It is so fucking expensive, over-crowded with foreigners and their 5 kids stealing all the jobs, over-regulated with stupid laws and a million Gestapo-like cops, and over-taxed (10%). I can't wait to get the fuck out. I wish i could go now! There's 3 good things about California though, they are, the weather, the weather and the weather! Screw this Golden Nazi Hell hole!" 

Can we give California to another country? Maybe China is interested?