Mitt Romney Says U.S. Failing Like California ... While Asking For Cash Here

They hate on California because its a democratic state. Notice the right wing tactics is to diminish the opposition whenever wherever possible. The second that Cruz guy gave a good speech at the convention - fox headlines are about his mom being involved in some left wing group when she was young - was that the very first story a normal news organization would run? No but its the first story you run if you're in the business of destroying your opposition.

If this were a red state or toss up they wouldn't talk about it - not that there aren't problems here but its still semi-fixable (problems anywhere in America are harder to deal with today as anything you want to change is going to get strong opposition from some group).

Doug Osborne, btw, The cities of San Diego and San Jose apparently dont agree with you about the unions as the residents of those cities voted to restructure the oversized union contracts. As well, the city of LA has been trying to fire some of the 1000 teachers deemed to be incompetent and cant due to the stupid union contract. They tried go through litigation to fire these people, got through 15 cases at a cost of over $5 million, were opnly able to fire 7, so they decided it would be cheaper to pay these mo-fo's not to work... next time you come back with a smart-ass reply, youmight want to have the 1st friggin clue of what you speak...

Doug Osborne, how not original of you. The high speed rail money would be better spent, by half, on more airports Not many will ride the high speed rail. Especially since they are starting to build it in the middle of farm country...which they ironically destroyed the economy of with shutting off the water. which not only affected SoCal, it affected the San Juaqin Valley, the bread basket of the entire US. The Delta Smelt vs. San Juoqin Valley Farms http://reason.com/blog/2012/02/29/delta-smelt-v-central-valley-farmers-the ...

Not really a big issue. 1. Cali will always be a dem state so it does not matter if he pisses off the average cali voter. 2. The people he is trying to get money FROM would most likely agree with his cali comments 3. Clearly cali IS doing something wrong given the debt we are in

He is right, college tuition has been more than triple within 10 years and 12% unemployment rate. Did I forget to mention Jerry Brown wants to raise sale taxes?

Doug; not everyone wants the government to have ultimate control over their life and pocket book. CA does not have a revenue problem it has is a spending problem. You base your budget on your revenue, not the other way around. You have it backwards. But in this state your attitude is not surprising; up is down, down is up, good is bad, bad is good, etc.

Thus the trend of the Californian workforce moving east to Texas or elsewhere.

Thomas, good points. A major factor to mention however is that the tax climate in Texas, because this state isn't drowning in self induced debt, is much more friendlier than California for companies AND the employees who work for them because Texas has no state income tax.

I mean, this is the guy who thinks airplanes need windows that can open in case of fire. Serious?

Romney has yet to give us a solution that doesn't add 2,000 dollars a year in taxes to the middle class and include more tax cuts for those who make over a million dollars. Dick.

Fuck Romney!

Ryan, this is a common approach in business models. Businesses relocate to states/countries where it is cheap to develop. With this comes jobs and a suddenly upstarted economy. Over time, the cost of living increases, the competition grows, etc. Businesses then relocate again to skirt these consequences. The only people who lose are the workers and citizens.

I don't like Romney AT ALL, but damnit, he's right on point with this statement.

@LAWeekly so so skewed. And I won't publicly support either candidate but your article is blind to California's severe problems. BLIND

Currently in Texas, but originally from California. California kicks Texas's ass when it comes to social life, but California has nothing on Texas's economic climate. You would be shocked how many Californians you meet who have recently or in the past few years relocated themselves here for the lower cost of living or to find a job. And a ton of Californian businesses are relocating as well.

romneys not wanted here!!!

The editor here most likely moon light's at the Huffington Post.

Raising campaign money and the state of an economy are two different things dip shit. Now that you bring it up.....The whole country is on its way to being one big California financially.

So what? This state is on the brink of failure..theres a rapidly growing amount people who have to leave California because they cant afford the taxes and inflated prices here. If you wanna see what its like to US on a "California" path vote for Obama..the real question is what happens when the welfare checks start to bounce? You guys call yourselves journalists its funny that all these Romney articles have the same tone across the board.. if your so desperate to fit then be honest and call it what it is..political campaigning.

What a stupid statement. As a resident of CA my entire adult life, I think our politics and piggy bank are broken, and...Romney is a hypocritical idiot. We take in billions less than we spend - it's a revenue problem. We were at our most prosperous when unions were strongest. High speed train will ultimately make CA a first world nation among states. In SoCal we use far more water than we need to, and we haven't done anything about the destruction we do to everyone else's water supply. And there are still people who have the lack of awareness to vote Republican. California is still the 9th largest economy in the world. We need to restore control of revenues to local governments by repealing Proposition 13. We need to refuse out of state money that games our broken, failed experiment in direct Democracy - we need to prosecute the LDS church for their hideous hatred displayed by their purchase of California voters with Prop 8. We need to once again make our education system the envy of the world.

Brown's fault. All of them. Pat, Jerry, Kathleen....James.....

Reagans fault.

WHAT A STUPID HEADLINE!! As a resident of California my entire life, I think our politics and our piggy bank are broken, and I'm thankful for Romney being so blunt about it. Billions in debt, unions out of control, high speed train to nowhere, %30 water shut off to SoCal due to delta smelt fish...and the shmucks around here still vote for Dems. That is the definition of insanity, and we need Californians with money to help get the message out to overcome stupid articles like this so we can actually fix some shit..

Truth hurts Dennis Romero.

As much as Romney is correct he still won't get any respect for his comments because of the Class Warfare that the Obama campaign has been pushing... And since the majority of the country are mindless sheep, its been working rather well...

The people he's soliciting donations from most likely agree with him and the ones he's blaming for the failure will vote for the other guy, so what's the gaffe?

Is he wrong to do either?

I'll fault the guy. Happy to.

Um... a lot of us residents think California is failing due to a myriad of current policies - not gonna fault the guy for speaking truthfully.

@LAWeekly Mitis a fool!

Are you on drugs?  

Home to Apple?  The well run company that manufactures n China because it can't afford to manufacture here, where it would have to pay endless taxes per employee, be sued by every parasites paradise employee, for  "harassment, discrimination, and hostile environment.... ? or the Apple that has billions of profits abroad, rather than be taxed here?  And about that population: California is borrowing billions from the feds to keep its generous welfare payments going.  It and its cities have an funded pension liability of almost 500b.  If not part of the US we might be similar to other countries all right--like Spain. So we have some billionaires, while our schools are failing, our roads have endless potholes, and only government employees have pensions.  Romney is absolutely right to focus on California's direction. ...And I love the learned responses from the political and economic illiterates: no facts, just trash talk. 

@LAWeekly What?You gotta be kidding!The most populated state of them all!!California is AMAZING!!Beach,snow,nature and Hollywood...

@LAWeekly I believe that's called the Romney. Like that time he called half of America lazy and now he wants our votes.

The guy is rather correct... California is on the path of bankruptcy... Got to love the left leaning writer and his awful one sided title for the article... 

@ebvrNOS wat is het schrikbeeld van ‘Europe’ eigenlijk volgens Romney?

@ebvrNOS Jon Stewart zal voorlopig niet zonder materiaal komen te zitten ;)

so who is left for Romney to piss on this week??