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Posted: 8/4/2012 4:15:47 PM
Falar that might be what it would take to get the slugs off the tit though.
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Posted: 8/4/2012 6:27:29 PM
It would be awesome to split California into 3 states. The funny thing is, the Jefferson state would be the richest, as it supplys most of the central valleys water. Shasta damn anyone??? All the BS about how the true north cal is a bunch of loosers is just a uneducated mess. LA, SF, Sac, and Stockton are where most of our problems are at. Stockton is a fucked mess right now, city officals getting the golden handshake because no one wants to try and prove they were imbezialing funds (my aunt works for the the city of stockton), filing bankruptcy, one of the highest crime rates in the nation.
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Posted: 8/4/2012 10:33:45 PM
Originally Posted By 2T2_Crash:
Falar that might be what it would take to get the slugs off the tit though. I would relish watching that 1/3rd have to admit their precious system is a failure. |
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Posted: 8/7/2012 2:03:08 AM
You might as well just cede the lower third to Mexico, they OCCUPY it anyway.
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MikeSH
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Posted: 8/24/2012 6:34:57 AM
Originally Posted By ShakyAim:
Originally Posted By Allrightythen:
CA native here. Here's one reason splitting the state will never happen: water rights. Northern CA has water, Southern does not. When I was a kid living in Sac. my southern CA relatives came to visit and made very derogatory remarks about our built-in pool and how much water it uses blah, blah, blah. My folks shut them down pretty quick when they said well it's our water that we send down to you in Anaheim (or someplace down there). That's only sort of true. The Central Valley gets it's water from the Sacramento River Delta (and the Sierra) and is always fighting for a greater share to irrigate more crops (which, all you CA haters, happen to supply ONE-THIRD of the nation's produce). LA gets its water from the Colorado River, and I'm not sure about San Diego, but water would only be an issue for the Central Valley. The main problem is, drumroll please, money. Period. No large region is wealthier than any other, and many regions are not wealthy at all (the *real* Northern California north of the greater SF Bay Area) and, despite their desire to create the State of Jefferson, haven't two farthings to rub together. The Central Valley isn't wealthy, the southern desert area isn't wealthy. California will never split, there simply isn't the money for two (or three) states. A lot of the water that comes out of the Northern and central Calif. gets shipped down to LA. Via the Calif Aquaduct. From Wikipedia; "The Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and valleys of Northern- and Central California to Southern California.[2] The Department of Water Resources (DWR) operates and maintains the California Aqueduct, including two pumped-storage hydroelectric plants, Castaic and Gianelli. Gianelli is located at the base of San Luis Dam, which forms San Luis Reservoir, the largest offstream reservoir in the United States. The Castaic Dam and Castaic Power Plant are located on the northern end of Castaic Lake." If we didn't ship this water down but kept it in central you'd suffer greatly. I'm a Fresno native, lived there for 41 years and have a lot of family that farms there. Otherwise I agree with you. |
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MikeSH
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Posted: 8/24/2012 6:44:21 AM
Originally Posted By ShakyAim:
Originally Posted By Allrightythen:
CA native here. Here's one reason splitting the state will never happen: water rights. Northern CA has water, Southern does not. When I was a kid living in Sac. my southern CA relatives came to visit and made very derogatory remarks about our built-in pool and how much water it uses blah, blah, blah. My folks shut them down pretty quick when they said well it's our water that we send down to you in Anaheim (or someplace down there). That's only sort of true. The Central Valley gets it's water from the Sacramento River Delta (and the Sierra) and is always fighting for a greater share to irrigate more crops (which, all you CA haters, happen to supply ONE-THIRD of the nation's produce). LA gets its water from the Colorado River, and I'm not sure about San Diego, but water would only be an issue for the Central Valley. The main problem is, drumroll please, money. Period. No large region is wealthier than any other, and many regions are not wealthy at all (the *real* Northern California north of the greater SF Bay Area) and, despite their desire to create the State of Jefferson, haven't two farthings to rub together. The Central Valley isn't wealthy, the southern desert area isn't wealthy. California will never split, there simply isn't the money for two (or three) states. |
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