opportunity to be so. We are against removal of the ladders that allow for people to be socially mobile.

But you know...evil rich people...etc..

We took the Starlight Coastal from SF to LA once, and it's one of our favorite vacation memories.

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and that is to stay there.

It is truly one of the most wonderful cities in the U.S.

Don't forget to visit the San Diego Zoo.

It is amazing to learn how few people understand the situation in this country and think like children while peering out a window.

That's a great train ride -- I love going up and down the coast here via RR tracks...

Happy New Year!

Shit, man. Must be rough.

...and thought about just wandering around in those swell neighborhoods, during my visits to "mere" Santa Barbara...

I'm livin' more prosaically down in the mighty "818..."

Happy New Year, Warren DeM.!

And a Happy New Year to you, too!

And it is quite likely that the voters of that most populous state will vote to Legalize marijuana for adult recreational posession, use and purchase in 2016.

Hillary people getting out of their east coast, beltway bubble = a good thing.

There is a guy at the beach I go to who sells pot. He is mean to men who are not his customers

Legalization will put him out of business

I hope it happens

The transition to full legalization was pretty painless and seamless. Our tax holiday ends tomorrow, at which point OR will pull in something like 25% in revenue from all sales.

Like marriage equality, it's something that is long overdue.

So it's not really a matter of if but when.

See, it's not so simple with the income. Someone making $60k a year in California who bought a house 40 years ago and paid off the mortgage and pays little in property taxes is better off than someone making $100k a year who can't possibly afford a house.

To get the railroad into their town, land was donated to build rail facilities. Business moved close to the railroad for shipping

Land became zoned for business and residential

Those who could afford it moved a cross the tracks to only residential.

Those who could not remained on the other side of the tracks

I am headed now. Growing up my dad brought home $60 a week to a family of five. My mom worked and I started working summers in the fourth grade. I will retire at 70 in 4 months.
I am not rich

I don't know if what you post about Hillary is made up or you really believe it.

Either way it is not realistic.

I tell everyone that soon you will agree with me.

I sincerely hope you have a Happy New year Willy

As you have discovered, Amtrak creeps along on old tracks with tight curves. The trip through southern Oregon and northern California is pure torture. Let's take some of that tax money and improve our passenger rail system. Tax people who drive Beamers and Corvettes.

Enjoy the views.

forgotten a lot of people. She has forgotten the elderly, the disabled, those living in areas that do not have jobs for all, and the children of the poor because a lot of these people CANNOT use it to better their outcomes. They will need continued assistance.

That is what Bill and her forgot when they "reformed" welfare the first time and hurt so many of us.

just going to tell the 1% to "cut it out!" or something like that.

...to others without knowing what their motives really are.

Your post insinuates that people who support someone other than Hillary Clinton, "hate" the rich for being rich.

Speaking for myself, I do not hate the rich for being rich. But I DO hate that so many in this country have so little, and I DO recognize that this is in no small part due to the political manipulations of the rich and the super-rich.

There is only one candidate who is speaking for the many who are being ripped off in this system, so that the very, very few can have riches beyond imagination.