If California wants to exit...split it into Red and Blue, then adios blue....

[EverCurious]

I think it's like $64 billion. In my future fantasy land of Westeros, that would be renegotiated.

We'll begin to employ robot teachers. They dont have pensions. We'll invent a 21st Century model of education where cenralized brick-and-mortar institutions are no longer the norm. Information is free and free flowing, a notion that hasn't yet overcome our cultural lag and old assumptions about why education has to be expensive.

Kids could attend virtual reality classrooms represented by cool avatars. Real world socialization can be fostered via local clubs (beach volleyball, mountain biking, search for Bigfoot, etc.).

I don't think the virtual reality classroom option would work since many parents need to work and tend to use school as babysitting in a sense.

 

[Harry Dresden]

are you a Mexican?....

You mean the people of spanish-speaking euro descent?

no ...just what i said....Mexican....

Which would be spanish-speaking people of euro descent.

you can refer to them if you like,i asked you if you were a Mexican.....someone who is a citizen of Mexico....

Not yet. But I do live between Riverdale and Langley Park, MD.

do you even know why i asked you that?....

 

[pwjohn]

this is a good column on the left as they propose to take California and leave the United States.......adios muchachos......

Liberals Want California to Secede? Godspeed, Libs...

Take Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, for example. Are there any meaningful areas of agreement you have with them politically as conservatives? Do you agree with them on abortion, gay marriage, Obamacare, the Constitution, controlling the border, taxes, states’ rights, spending, judges, school choice, etc., etc.? Those disagreements might be mostly irrelevant if liberals were content to live how they want in states they control while leaving everyone else alone. Instead, liberals have worked incessantly to create an all-powerful centralized government that they believe should marginalize and prey upon people who don’t share their political beliefs. The idealized liberal world is one where you do the work, they take your tax dollars and give that money to people who don’t work as hard as you in exchange for keeping the Left in power. That unworkable liberal philosophy is inexorably marching the country towards bankruptcy and ruin.

…Which brings us to California and the “Calexit.” Inspired by Britain’s “Brexit” from Europe, a group called Yes California wants to put leaving the United States on the ballot for Californians in 2018. If liberals want California to secede, then conservatives should say, “Godspeed, Libs!” Of course, there are some caveats. Any nuclear weapons and military equipment should stay in the United States. Buy your own military hardware for your new nation. Additionally, large swathes of California aren’t liberal. Roughly half the physical area in California went for Trump over Hillary, for instance. Split the state in two and let the liberal half form its own nation while the conservative “new California” stays in the United States. Given the raw size of California and the deep political differences, the state should be split in two whether there’s a “Calexit” or not.

That begs an obvious question. The Yes California group has an argument about why Californians should leave the United States, but why should the rest of us want it to happen?

Well, if you believe that liberalism is destroying the country, getting rid of California would put a big thumb on the scale for conservatism.

You're full of shit as usual

 

[2aguy]

this is a good column on the left as they propose to take California and leave the United States.......adios muchachos......

Liberals Want California to Secede? Godspeed, Libs...

Take Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, for example. Are there any meaningful areas of agreement you have with them politically as conservatives? Do you agree with them on abortion, gay marriage, Obamacare, the Constitution, controlling the border, taxes, states’ rights, spending, judges, school choice, etc., etc.? Those disagreements might be mostly irrelevant if liberals were content to live how they want in states they control while leaving everyone else alone. Instead, liberals have worked incessantly to create an all-powerful centralized government that they believe should marginalize and prey upon people who don’t share their political beliefs. The idealized liberal world is one where you do the work, they take your tax dollars and give that money to people who don’t work as hard as you in exchange for keeping the Left in power. That unworkable liberal philosophy is inexorably marching the country towards bankruptcy and ruin.

…Which brings us to California and the “Calexit.” Inspired by Britain’s “Brexit” from Europe, a group called Yes California wants to put leaving the United States on the ballot for Californians in 2018. If liberals want California to secede, then conservatives should say, “Godspeed, Libs!” Of course, there are some caveats. Any nuclear weapons and military equipment should stay in the United States. Buy your own military hardware for your new nation. Additionally, large swathes of California aren’t liberal. Roughly half the physical area in California went for Trump over Hillary, for instance. Split the state in two and let the liberal half form its own nation while the conservative “new California” stays in the United States. Given the raw size of California and the deep political differences, the state should be split in two whether there’s a “Calexit” or not.

That begs an obvious question. The Yes California group has an argument about why Californians should leave the United States, but why should the rest of us want it to happen?

Well, if you believe that liberalism is destroying the country, getting rid of California would put a big thumb on the scale for conservatism.

You're full of shit as usual

 

[Manonthestreet]

They wouldn't make it 6 months and be begging to come back

 

[Treeshepherd]

I don't think the virtual reality classroom option would work since many parents need to work and tend to use school as babysitting in a sense.

It's one of many options, certainly as a supplement. The daycare role of public school would have to be filled by other means. My daughter went to a public charter school where the teachers made less money, the parents had to do more volunteer work, more of a peer-to-peer style of organization

Californians are having less kids. The elementary school I went to closed down and merged with two others. Meanwhile there's a lot of niche options for parents.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

You mean the people of spanish-speaking euro descent?

no ...just what i said....Mexican....

Which would be spanish-speaking people of euro descent.

you can refer to them if you like,i asked you if you were a Mexican.....someone who is a citizen of Mexico....

Not yet. But I do live between Riverdale and Langley Park, MD.

do you even know why i asked you that?....

Yes. But my idea is way more direct and comprehensive than the current Mexican strategy.

 

[Harry Dresden]

no ...just what i said....Mexican....

Which would be spanish-speaking people of euro descent.

you can refer to them if you like,i asked you if you were a Mexican.....someone who is a citizen of Mexico....

Not yet. But I do live between Riverdale and Langley Park, MD.

do you even know why i asked you that?....

Yes. But my idea is way more direct and comprehensive than the current Mexican strategy.

not bad....for an eastern boy you are pretty sharp.....