Maher: California’s economy is booming because ‘we’re tea party-free!’

[kpete]

“Here in California, we’re not just gluten-free and soy-free and peanut-free,” he said, “we’re tea party-free! Yes, we can live in reality.”

Friday night on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher pointed out that unlike most of the country, California’s economy is surging ahead, thanks to the efforts of the state Democratic Party and veteran Gov. Jerry Brown (D). California is going to drag the rest of the country kicking and screaming into the present, he said, if it can.

“New rule,” Maher said, “Conservatives who love to brag about American exceptionalism must come here to California and see it in person. And then they should be afraid. Because while right-wingers are taking over places like North Carolina and Texas and even Wisconsin, California is creating the kind of modern, liberal nation the country as a whole can only dream about.”

“And not only can’t the rest of the country stop us, we’re going to drag you with us,” he said.

In 2010, he said, when many other states were electing tea party Republicans to office, California elected a Democratic governor. Without a Republican governor or state legislator “cock blocking” efforts at reform, the state was able to raise taxes and reorganize spending and turn its massive deficit into a budget surplus.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/28/maher-californias-economy-is-booming-because-were-tea-party-free/

[former9thward]

1. I'm sure the economy is good for Maher and his circle of friends.

CA has an unemployment rate of 8.9% -- one of the worst in the country. Only four states have higher rates. The economy is doing well along the coast from the Bay area to San Diego. Inland is not well at all.

http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm edit to add link

[kimbutgar]

2. The inland areas are the republican part of the state. In local areas the rethugs cut school funding

They give local area tax breaks to corporations and allow them to pollute the area like crazy. Bakersfield is a cesspool of pollution. People are sick. All in the rethug areas of California.

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. shhhhhhhhhh

you are ruining a good narrative!

[former9thward]

5. Except there were no facts there.

Do you think the inland areas are doing well? Do you think pollution is regulated locally?

[former9thward]

4. Air pollution is not regulated locally.

The State does it. If what you say is true why does Governor Brown allow it?