California residents, businesses consider bailing on Golden State over taxes

[JDPriestly]

48. Same for Los Angeles.

This past Saturday, we got up and drove down the freeway to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. The traffic was great -- like it is in the middle America. We were actually able to drive the few miles at a steady, good pace. We told each other it must be like in the good old days when Los Angeles was not so terribly overpopulated.

Unless you live in a large American city like Los Angeles, you have no idea what is going on. First, the demand for public services -- like just plain streets and sidewalks is overwhelming here. The City can no longer afford to maintain our sidewalks the way they should. Second, the disparity between the housing and lifestyles of the rich and the rest of us is so unseemly, so visible in a city like Los Angeles.

I say. Let them go to Arkansas or Texas where their employees will be able to live well on what these greedy bosses want to pay them. Let their kids go to the schools in Texas or Arkansas. It will teach them a lesson.