How do you feel about California seceding from the union?
545562
I don't usually harp on errors but you have some typos that make your question confusing.\n\nFirst of all, I understand that perhaps 3/4 of California Senators have supported various illegal immigrant benefits, such as the driver's license benefit you mentioned, which the Governor has vetoed twice on National Security grounds.  (I think he wants a secure border so we aren't giving drivers licenses to terrorists.)\n\nI don't think that regardless of what the Senate says, the United States would let California succeed from the Union.  Look what happened to the Southern States when they tried it.  \n\nIf it did happen, the repercussions would be great, and the Minutemen would build a fence on the Nevada, etc. border. I would help them, as long as they let me run to their side with my family before it went up.\n\nIt won't happen, though.  Amongst other things, I think people are right when they say that if Mexican illegal immigrants wanted to be in Mexico, they would have stayed there.  They want to be in the United States so that they can benefit from the opportunities inherent in the United States' culture and economy.   Mexico does not offer those benefits, and adding a new 'state' wouldn't change the basic nature of the country.
10469
nope. Parts of California are moving basically north and south relative to the eastern part of the state and the rest of North America. Some day a long time from now LA will be at the latitude currently occupied by SF. But the western part of the state won't "break off."
463986
Stanfurd SUCKS! Cal has the AXE! Cal will keep the axe! Big Game is OURS!!!\n\nThe rugby team is AWESOME. Basketball team has seen better days, but they will have a comeback soon, I just know it! Swimming was great when I was there (thanks to Natalie Coughlin).\n\nGO BEARS! http://calbears.cstv.com/
570449
Seriously, I think there will be a lot of fighting. A lot of United States citizens are really tired of illegals draining our economy, and I think the resentment will surface in a very violent way.  And just for the record, I hope they don't pass a bill allowing that, because it certainly isn't fair to the people who earned their citizenship the honest way.  By the way, my family has been here since about 1670.
329679
I wasn't sure how I felt about the boycott but after seeing the number of people who are against it and the whole immigration mess, I believe it may very well be a valid way of getting a point across. I know most people say their major beef is with ILLEGAL immigrants, however, I feel that the majority of those illegals would much rather be legal. Our and their government makes it hard. If it were so easy to fill out papers and become legal people would do it. There are many roadblocks. In the meantime while red tape is being strung across every thing in the world, they still need to work and feed themselves and be able to have a normal life, therefore, their illegal status. I don't believe that the HR 4437 bill will be as easy as it sounds.\n\nI am Mexican, born and raised here by parents who were born and raised here. My grandparents were illegal immigrants who worked, paid taxes, paid their own medical bills and were not on any form of welfare. It took MANY YEARS for my grandfather to finally get a legal status and my grandmother barely got it about 3 yrs ago, which was shortly before she died. I dont speak Spanish, dont have a loyalty to Mexico and I love my country. However, I do not think sending them all back is the answer! When my daughter who is 1/2 mexican 1/2 white asked me about staying home from school I said no. Now though, I am changing my mind about it and I believe I will let the schools lose some money by not sending my 5 kids to school. Schools that I pay taxes to help support. If everyone did that, I believe it would show just a small sliver of what could happen. Problem is I don't think everyone will.\n\nAnyway, I think it's great they're trying to find their voice. Even though they're not officially members of our country, they are still members, whether people want to acknowledge that or not. For all the good they do I believe they've earned the right to be heard. There may be many people who will say they don't want them here anyway but the silent majority (business owners) know they don't want them to leave. If the wages of the avg. American worker are being brought down because Mexican nationals will accept lower wages, think what would happen if magically they all disappeared. Sure, the wages would go up but the companies that relied on staying in business due to being able to pay lower wages will go out of business. A LOT OF THEM! That would mean the unemployment rate would skyrocket. Lines full of American workers who no longer have a place to work. There is no easy answer to this situation. I do believe there should be a system of checks and balances so that not just anyone can come here, namely terrorists. However, the Mexicans coming here to work are not terrorists and even the $$ issue can't be completely valid because there are still and will always be WAY more of us(Americans) than there are of them!
644593
At some point in the future there should certainly be a referendum on the subject. I'm not altogether sure that independence would be a good thing. Small states tend to get picked on by bully boys. You know who I mean.
585985
Let's see... They built a bigass wall, and placed soldiers with guns, and tanks and such on one side, and said those on this side stay in, those on that side, stay out. There's your sign. I hated that wall. I looked at it with pity, and great sadness in my heart. I swung a hammer and watched it fall with elation and euphoria.\n\nBUT>>> I would go to Texas, New Mexico, and California and build a wall just like it. Man, how perceptions and ideologies can change. Given the right reasons, and enough time.
613027
i think california will breakaway first\nUSA will divide on the basis of poverty level
771338
We are in more trouble that I dared hope.  God help us all.  \n\nThe idiots have been elected by the idiots that voted for them and we are all along for the ride.  \n\nMaybe we sane should secede from the country and take our money with us and see how far you socialists get.  None of you work or pay taxes and without our taxes lets see you try to support yourselves without the handouts we used to provide.
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I feel a bit sorry for league players. They are torn between playing the code they love and which has given them their break, and the fact that union is able to offer such lucrative deals.\n\nI think he will probably go to union - I know I would if I were in his shoes.
287260
I have many ways to eloquently prove my points or rant and rave like a lunatic to feel better...but I can't possibly make a better point than one that I saw on the news today.\n\nIn Montebello, California...students from another school had ditched class....again....and went to Montebello High School to try and get the students out of that school to run amok in the streets, but none of the students from Montebello came out.\n\nThose punk a** kids who do not deserve to be here had the nerve to take down the American flag...and then put it back up UPSIDE down. WHAT THE????? Talk about a slap in the face of the very nation they are trying to live in and gain rights in...they just proved what I have believed all along. Someone that comes here and pays no attention or respect for the laws of the US will have no respect for the US as a nation and will have no allegiance. THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED! THEY DON'T GIVE A RIP ABOUT THE US EXCEPT WHAT THEY CAN GET OUT OF US!\n\nDon't get me started!
248269
I think that it is too far removed from the continental United States. \n\nI can go on and on about the subject but I think that the cost of defending the Philippines against potential attack would be outrageous. And probably futile. Also being a state in the Union would make it a bigger target for everybody that hates the US.   \n\nIf it weren't for those facts I would have nothing against the Philippines becoming a member state. As long as the citizens of the Philippines wanted it.
55255
Except the Mexican/American war I think Hispanics and Anglos have gotten along very well in CA for many generations, I've lived here 36 years thus far.  I fear the unrest between Hispanic and African American youth (also gangs in the state etc...)  there seems to be much unrest and anger between the two groups.  It's been on the news here of late and many schools have taken zero tolerance stances to fights etc...  because of it. \n\nOne of the biggest issues in CA to these days is local cities allowing their police forces to pick up and enforce INS laws on local illegal immigrants.  It's a major flash point right now and I fear folks civil liberties will be violated because of it.  Watch for a Supreme court case in the coming years on this matter.  I'm sure it's in the works now.
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They need illegal aliens in Utah. Or so they think. Californians have taken advantage of the high price of houses in CA compared to the low price of houses in Utah. Many have sold their California homes and bought homes in Utah (paying cash), and Utah is desperate to get low wage workers to build, dig, pave and serve french fries to the new residents of Utah. Wait 'til they start reproducing and flooding the schools 'til they are overcrowded and failing, the abusive free use Emergency Rooms are shutting down the hospitals and they start marching through their shiny Mormon streets on El Día de los Muertos with skeletons and caskets. They'll be singing a different tune...I give them 3-5 years to start whining.
1071277
To say we stole California, Texas and Arizona I think is wrong. These states were given a chose to be apart of the u.s. . They chose to become part of the us.because they wanted freedom from the mexican goverment.
191021
Dang. And I was gonna go to Idaho... Well, if you don't want California in Idaho, move all the good paying jobs that came from California back out of Idaho. But you gotta understand something here. Most of those from Cali going to Ida, and from NY anyway. What're we sposed to do about it anyway?\n\nWell hey, go to Office Depot. They have bumper stickers for your printer. Buy a pack and make all sorts of bizarre bumper stickers.
550491
California, like anywhere else has benefits and disadvantages to living here.  San Diego politics are a mess, Duke Cunningham was just hauled off to jail, we have a huge pension problem, several of our city council members were indicted in a strip club scandal and it seems like our city governement is unresponsive to the people who live here.  The state is no better, remember we recalled our governor and replaced Davis with the girlie man terminator.  \n\nWe have a huge problem with illegal aliens who use services like education and health care to which they don't contribute.  As a result, most of our schools are over crowded and under performing.  Our public hospital emergency rooms can have 6-8 hour waits, are inefficient and rate poorly for service.  We are always faced with some new school bond, hospital bond, library bond or increase in the sales tax because of it.\n\nIt is really expensive to live here.  Traffic conjestion is a fact of life.  Owning a home is out of reach for a lot of middle income people.  \n\nBut, it is a beautiful state to live in, as well.  Miles of beaches, mountains, deserts, forests, and there is always something to do.  Where else can you go from the ocean to the mountains in the same day?  The weather is generally comfortable throughout the year.  \n\nWe have an election coming up and Californians aren't afraid of change.  Maybe some fresh faces will change the course of our future!