More secession talk

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This time, it's not Rick Perry.

Accusing Sacramento of pillaging local governments to feed its runaway spending and left-wing policies, a Riverside County politician is proposing a solution: He wants 13 mostly inland, conservative counties to break away to form a separate state of "South California.''




Supervisor Jeff Stone, a Republican pharmacist from Temecula, called California an "ungovernable'' financial catastrophe from which businesses are fleeing and where taxpayers are being crushed by the burden of caring for welfare recipients and illegal immigrants.








http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-south-california-20110711,0,2846870.story

 
Huge list of state partition proposals here, including an interesting find on Californica politics:
There have been at least 27 attempts to split up the state of California, the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest in area, since it acquired statehood in 1850. Before statehood, the South strongly pushed for a slave state in Southern California below the 35th parallel north...
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Those slave-loving Democrats!
 
California is a financial catastrophe. Unfortunately, "conservative" counties have their own history of financial mismanagement. Orange County declared bankruptcy in 1994 in what was the largest financial failure of any local government in U.S. history.
 
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California is a financial catastrophe. Unfortunately, "conservative" counties have their own history of financial mismanagement. Orange County declared bankruptcy in 1994 in what was the largest financial failure of any local government in U.S. history.
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In Orange County, they were able to finance low taxes for a long time by investing tax money. This policy was lead by a Democrat (the only elected Democrat in OC at the time), but he was approved for several terms by the conservative residents. When the investments fell through (as you would expect them too, eventually), tax revenue wasn't high enough to finance their obligations, and the voters turned down a proposition to raise taxes to fix the problem, which forced the county into bankruptcy.

This is one of the reasons I am against direct democracy. Often, there is no logically consistent majority, and the voters will approve measures and deny measures in a way that makes things impossible to govern (they approved the investments and refused to take responsibility for them once they fell through; because they take part in approving policy but don't have any part in administrating it, they don't feel like they're responsible for failures even when they are). Oftentimes, there needs to be one core leader who can force together the best possible set of logically consistent goals, even if the entire package doesn't hold majority support.
 
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