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aGameOfThrones
03-08-2014, 01:30 AM
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It would be Ayn Rand's dream come true: separate states for rich people and poor people.

A proposal to split California into six states, introduced by billionaire investor Tim Draper in December, would formally create state lines between the haves and the have-nots.

"You'd be creating one exceptionally wealthy state and others with dire poverty," Corey Cook, a political science professor at the University of San Francisco, said to The Huffington Post. "You'd create massive inequality."

While the plan has little chance of becoming a reality, it's just the latest troubling sign that the rich are leaning in to the rising levels of inequality in the U.S. and increasingly seeking to break away from the middle- and lower-classes, depriving them of tax revenue and choking off much-needed resources.

Perhaps nowhere in the U.S. is income inequality as extreme as in California. One in four of its citizens live in poverty. Yet the state has the highest number of ultra-rich people in the country. The state deeply needs the tax revenue from the wealthy to support those who are less well-off. Under Draper's plan, this critical tax revenue redistribution would be lost.

Splitting up the state would "widen the chasms in education, incarceration and wealth that are already greater than they were 25 years ago," said Larry Gerston, professor of political science at San Jose State University.

Draper isn't alone in wanting to segregate rich and poor. Airlines are increasingly offering their wealthy clients more physical distance from the masses in coach. United and Delta now have private airport suites for first-class travelers, and will drive high-end passengers from one gate to another in luxury cars.

And then there are school districts. In the past two years, wealthy neighborhoods in several states have launched campaigns to break away from school districts that include poor communities. This has taken place in Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, California and Tennessee, and some of the efforts have been successful.

Elsewhere, many affluent Americans prefer to live in exclusive neighborhoods. It's common for wealthy residents of Southern California and Silicon Valley to live in gated communities, which often employ private security rather than relying on public police officers. And the security may be for a good reason. In the non-gated Lindenwood neighborhood, near Silicon Valley, average home prices exceed $7 million. Vandals recently spray-painted black graffiti on the 1 percent's walls, garages and white picket fences.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/california-6-states_n_4890982.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

liberty2897
03-08-2014, 01:41 AM
Okay, I don't agree with *every* single part of the lyrics, but somehow it fits.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ErpFBO7RI



Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your Prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

It's a bullshit three ring circus sideshow of freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dip shits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cause
I sure could use a vacation from this

Stupid shit, silly shit, stupid shit...

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim. [3x]

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.

Learn to swim.

Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all these gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.

Learn to swim.

Fuck smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

Cause I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom, please flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.
Bring it down
Suck it down.
Flush it down.

thoughtomator
03-08-2014, 01:52 AM
If the massive poverty is caused by these wealthy areas, however...

NorthCarolinaLiberty
03-08-2014, 03:41 AM
I thought being poor was cool. You can eat baloney sandwiches, play blues music, and root for movies like Smokey and the Bandit.

Feeding the Abscess
03-08-2014, 04:04 AM
40k in Jefferson is not even close to being the same as 40k in San Francisco. Or Malibu.

Ronin Truth
03-08-2014, 09:11 AM
How about just 2, North and South? Simplify! Kinda like the Carolinas and Dakotas.

jkob
03-08-2014, 09:55 AM
I don't see the point of the map, what changes if California sticks together? Is the poverty rate in Jefferson going to go down? The proposal to split the state up exists because the state is so large with so many competing wants and demands.

klamath
03-08-2014, 10:04 AM
I don't see the point of the map, what changes if California sticks together? Is the poverty rate in Jefferson going to go down? The proposal to split the state up exists because the state is so large with so many competing wants and demands.As someone that lives in Jefferson yes for a while the incomes would go down as state grants and subsidies went away but then the economy would switch to a productive economy as we got out from under the liberal anti development laws. Most of the rich city areas suppress real jobs in Jefferson because they want it as their recreation area without the "ignorant local rednecks."

parocks
03-08-2014, 04:44 PM
How about just 2, North and South? Simplify! Kinda like the Carolinas and Dakotas.

East and West

East California
***************
Jefferson
part of North California
Central California
part of South California

West California
***************
part of North California
Silicon Valley
West California
part of South California