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In reply to the discussion: Who determined that the NSA and TPP are the most important issues? [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Back during the tale end of Summer 2010, Gov Schwartzenegger went to The President with hat in hand, and asked for a goddamn 20 billion dollar loan, and the President had Geithner tell all 37 million of us that that loan would add to the deficit.
Yet military spending that was in the form of aid to foreign nations ended up being over 55 billions of dollars during the same time period.
So then Californians, buoyed by Schwartzennegger (R) and Mark Leno (Democrat) who had put together a piece of state legislation that stated the police must not indict or penalize any Californian caught with six ounces of weed or less, we Californians embraced the HB 420 and really started in with marijuana. And people also began growing the dope needed for medical marijuana clinics. And running dispensaries.
All this was so successful that by 2012, we were hearing that some 125 millions of dollars was ending up in state coffers as tax on the product. The "grow the needed weed" program was becoming a success! People were staffing the dispensaries, were growing th product, were acting as couriers for the product, and of course as it was a local effort, all of this trickled outwards so that cafes, and car lots an furniture stores, and more saw some economic salvation come about.
So what happens then? Naturally, rather than let us restore the economy ourselves, Obama had the goon squads led by Eric Holder shut down dispensaries, and arrest dispensary owners. (No money for economic measure, but for prison, plenty of moulah!) Over 8,000 well paying jobs at dispensaries have been lost.