I agree. Those mothers and fathers that don't want to see their kids in the military are the same hippie/environmentalist/liberals who have blocked road building, logging and anything else they think is evil or excessive.
These same Michael Moore loving, Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown praising fools are the direct reason that California is out of power, out of roads and has actually stopped growing for the first time in a century. (Yes, the rate of people moving into the state actually equalled the number leaving for the first time in US history.)
Who do you think is moving from California? Is it the poor? The un-educated? Those people are still stuck there. It's people who are fed up with the rediculus state of things, and they are cashing out the money they have in real estate value, and moving anywhere else they can. (Many are moving up here to Boise, and other cities like Vegas are also full of ex-Californians who've had it with rediculus government.)
The problems is, a funny thing happens when you suddenly have money, and you want a wilderness to live next to.
They develop a "I've got mine, and you can't have yours" mentality. These same people who were running away from the cities, crime and crowding of where they used to live, are now telling us that we can't build highways, or develop without some expensive environmental studies... Stupid fuckers, they are just going to turn anywhere they move to into the same bullshit they left. (If we are not careful, and allow them to vote in the liberal assholes who think this is a good idea...)
Case in point. Boise is expanding the freeway between Meridian and Caldwell. Two suburbs of Boise. The area is expanding as quickly as anywhere I've ever seen it. Thousands of new homes every year, in every city and town.
These ex-Californian Liberals are fighting the building of the highway because they don't want to change the "country setting" of the area. (As if that is going to happen.)
The cost of housing has gone nuts. My home was a nice 150,000 typical new house 5 years ago. Today it's pushing 240,000, and show's no sign of going down. I remember this same crap happening in California when I lived there. You could buy 5 acres of orange trees in the 70's for about 65,000. When my parents sold the land and moved away, each aqre was worth 310.000 BARE. No house. Dude, that's 1,550,000 for a 65,000 investment. My friends in Pacifica live in this little post war house that is about 560 square feet with a tiny little one car garage attached to it. You could put it in my garage almost. Last time I talked to them, it was worth over 325,000 just for the land. (About 60x100' corner lot in a canyon with no view of the ocean.)
That will buy you a 3500 square foot house here with all the nice stuff inside on an acre of land. So, they sell out and move up here. Can't really blame them, but I sure wish the more liberal leaning ones would stay in Oregon or some other socialist state....
Idaho does not need, or want them. (At least this Idahoan does not.)
What we need is better roads, more hydro power plants (Dams) and build a few Nuke plants while we are at it. (We can always sell the power to California for a profit.)
