rararoadrunner
10th February 2009, 03:57
My thanks to Chris Herz for his excellent article on how California is leading the US ... not in prosperity this time, but in crisis-induced poverty, and how, therefore, California is, in effect, printing its own money.
California is also leading the US in the emergence of politically centrifugal forces which, while not yet as strong as those which tore the Soviet Union apart, nevertheless cannot be ignored.
Let me share something which came out in the Sacramento Bee about the time of Chris Herz' article: "...A coalition of six Southern California counties is headed to Sacramento for a Feb. 12 meeting to call attention to the counties' plight, Riverside County spokeswoman Lys Mendez said. By the time leaders from Riverside, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Imperial and San Bernardino counties come together, the revolt could be at full steam...."
These are the Southern California counties with the largest Mexican immigrant populations, and, therefore, the ones where the US and Mexican economic crises come together: together, they make up the majority of Californians (all but Imperial County have large urban centers).
Of these, the poorest are Imperial and San Bernardino: San Bernardino, the county seat of the geographically largest county in the United States, is also the poorest of the major cities of Southern California.
Welcome to the City of the Future: my city, San Bernardino.
Perhaps California will secede from the United States eventually: more likely, Southern California, in order to survive this crisis, will secede from the rest of California (the last time something like this happened was when West Virginia seceded from Virginia in order not to secede from the USA: this was during a civil war between the United States and Confederate States).
If it does, watch this space for news of how San Bernardino must lead the charge, as we sink into rioting and criminality, in response to which the forces of socialist revolution and fascist reaction will battle it out in our streets...
...because, as the US, California and San Bernardino County money runs out, and more people are foreclosed, evicted, and thrown into the streets, we will have little choice but to take those streets over...
When that happens (and the Southern California county delegation has warned that we can only borrow for a month in order to stay in operation) you will see the battles over the future of the USA (not to mention Mexico, with which we are also intimately connected) first fought out here.
From the City of the Future,
hasta pronto, y a la victoria, siempre,
Mateo Owen
[email protected]
California is also leading the US in the emergence of politically centrifugal forces which, while not yet as strong as those which tore the Soviet Union apart, nevertheless cannot be ignored.
Let me share something which came out in the Sacramento Bee about the time of Chris Herz' article: "...A coalition of six Southern California counties is headed to Sacramento for a Feb. 12 meeting to call attention to the counties' plight, Riverside County spokeswoman Lys Mendez said. By the time leaders from Riverside, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Imperial and San Bernardino counties come together, the revolt could be at full steam...."
These are the Southern California counties with the largest Mexican immigrant populations, and, therefore, the ones where the US and Mexican economic crises come together: together, they make up the majority of Californians (all but Imperial County have large urban centers).
Of these, the poorest are Imperial and San Bernardino: San Bernardino, the county seat of the geographically largest county in the United States, is also the poorest of the major cities of Southern California.
Welcome to the City of the Future: my city, San Bernardino.
Perhaps California will secede from the United States eventually: more likely, Southern California, in order to survive this crisis, will secede from the rest of California (the last time something like this happened was when West Virginia seceded from Virginia in order not to secede from the USA: this was during a civil war between the United States and Confederate States).
If it does, watch this space for news of how San Bernardino must lead the charge, as we sink into rioting and criminality, in response to which the forces of socialist revolution and fascist reaction will battle it out in our streets...
...because, as the US, California and San Bernardino County money runs out, and more people are foreclosed, evicted, and thrown into the streets, we will have little choice but to take those streets over...
When that happens (and the Southern California county delegation has warned that we can only borrow for a month in order to stay in operation) you will see the battles over the future of the USA (not to mention Mexico, with which we are also intimately connected) first fought out here.
From the City of the Future,
hasta pronto, y a la victoria, siempre,
Mateo Owen
[email protected]