The decline of this country began when I was a freshman in high school in 1979 when California passed Proposition 13, a scam pulled by landowners to reduce their taxes at the expense of schools and local services.
The whole slide to the right and beyond begins precisely there. I shall write a history lesson about this, because I doubt anyone younger than me remembers the story, or knows what it means today.
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Please do write this history lesson, or anything. I will eagerly devour anything you write (and probably continue to nag you to write a novel).
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*pulls up a chair*
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please, something worth reading… pretty please?
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Ah, those were the days. Living on the other coast, I rememeber that, but not the impact.
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you are correct, sir. I do not recall such happenings, as I was currently swimming inside a ballsack in 1979.
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Assorted webpages say June 1978, though they have a variety of perspectives.
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Yesh. 1979 was the year it took effect.
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history lesson, history lesson!! please entertain me at work and i will A) be most happy B)exchange story for coffee, C)maybe even tell you the gruesome details of constantine or D)all of the above –
correct answer is: E)it doesnt matter cause if you walk into diedrichs, you will have to put up with me anyways….
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teh doom
Not Nixon? Or his re-election? Not Reagan being elected governor to “clean up the mess in Berkeley”?
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I’m a little younger. and I agree it was the downfall of California.
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In 1979, I was 7 years old. I remember that being the last year that almost blatantly socialist ethics were still a commanding part of the government.
A.
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