So someone sent a “You’re-Working-My-Last–Nerve” blast to F411….as if it wasn’t earned…LOL.
Having worked in higher ed admin…well, let’s just say the effect on me is similar to that from my years in a prior life as a plant engineer for food manufacturers: one never again eats what one has seen made in a factory.
Ditto for higher ed: after seeing under ‘the curtain’, one never again gives any ‘carte blanche credence’ to any academic, be they an adjunct, AP, Assoc Prof, tenured, chair or whatever.
I am glad I didn’t know any better, however, as a wee green undergrad. Why? Cuz it’s good to have experienced that kind of ‘blank slate’ naiveté at such a ‘green shoot’ age. That first-hand experience at naiveté has really helped me to anticipate why so many folks today willingly consume the ‘green shoot’ fertilizer shoveled out by Timmie & Bennie, as well as by the TV talking necks.

OK, let me see where the posts are about the Fed’s Commercial Delinquency Report.

Let’s meet on Catalina Island (secretly, of course) and start the Central Bank of California.

Then, Cali can print all the money they need.

What d’ ya think?

Let’s talk exchange rate later.

But California’s problems make me wonder…even though Lincoln established that once you voted yourself on the island, you couldn’t vote yourself off, does that work in reverse? Maybe we ought to vote Cali off the island. It is just a big money pit, and without radical change, will be one until even Ben can’t print enough to bail them out.

Those migrants in WV still depend on the jobs they hold in MD & VA, yet the contribute little to the tax bases of those states (however, they do take a huge toll on infrastructure and services). The vast majority of these migrants work for the Fed Gov, or Fed Gov Contractors, so they’re also sucking on the Federal tax teat. The panhandle of WV is primarily where these migrants live, and they’re getting crushed by dropping property values (to say nothing of the 1 to 1.5 hour, one-way commute to NOVA/DC/MD to work their Federal jobs). Rt 9 from WV to NOVA is crushed with traffic on weekday mornings and evenings, as is Rt. 340 to the 270 tech corridor in MD.

The WV panhandle property tax base is crumbling. The state is far from self-sufficient.

Tuesday April 14, 2009
Kanawha Valley escapes nationwide housing bust
by Cara Bailey
Daily Mail staff
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As officials reassess property in a one-third section of Kanawha County during an economic downturn, they say values are holding steady.

“Nationally, West Virginia as a whole never really saw a boom, so we’re not seeing the bust the rest of the country is, except in the Eastern Panhandle,” said Steve Sluss, the chief deputy and legal counsel to Kanawha County Assessor Phyllis Gatson.

I said to my wife, enjoy this while we are here, think of it like a vacation, because we cannot afford to put down roots here – pay to low (everyone wanted to live there) to afford a house – 1979!

Have been in Houston ever since. Enjoy the work, don’t enjoy the weather, and, alas, no real surf in the GOM. House paid off.

You’re right…

The “governator” is practically on his knees to WDC…he’s Obamawammees new BFF…

California is 13% of the US GDP…

I don’t want to get into “slicing & dicing” it…I don’t pretend to be that arrogant…But there are PROBLEMS with California that just won’t easily be fixed…

I mean…start with H20…You can’t “grow” a state like that with a problem like that…
Taxes…
Income…
Both of the above w/respect to homes…
Even the “movie” industry is seeking cheaper lands to produce its product…
Defense left long ago, revovered for awhile, but is in its 2nd leg down…
Technology, I feel, is no longer going to benefit from the GROWTH pattern of the last two decades…30 years from now, silicon valley will resemble Detroit…Overpaid workforce…The operational budget will seek cheaper production…

California 2009 is as arrogant as Detroit 1969