Well, if it's a repubican state like Texas -my first reaction would be "ADIOS - mother****ers!"

But if it were CA or NY or anyplace else that wasn't consumed by wholesale greed and spent their lives trying to tell others how to live - or so filled with the religious right that the main state sport was hating anyone who thought or acted differently than their percieved "normals" - then I might be upset by the loss.

Of course if it were CA, then the US FEDS would no doubt step in. We have well over ten percent of the US GNP produced right here in the land of Oranges and Sunshine and smog and mexican illegals... And as such we contribute slightly over 17% of all Federal Income Taxs paid for the nation as a whole. I doubt they'd let us leave easily - although I can think of several good reasons to suport out doing so!

So for whatever HORRENDOUS problems California is facing and there are PLENTY OF THEM, there is also one hell of a productive streak running through us, too. One way or anohter, there is still gold in these hills. Whether we dig it out of the ground or it pops up in the Inland Empire that feeds the country - or it comes via the creativity in Silicone Valley - it doesn't matter. It's still golden! And still taxable! <damn it!>



M