University of CA favors illegals in admissions over out-of-state Americans

They love their $0.12 per gallon gas hike as well.


Great job, CA. Never change.

If you can get away with having a 175 million slush fund and live high off the hog, anything can happen.

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State's rights baby!

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Not when the school receives federal tax dollars.

Well that's just going to get expensive. Hope the taxpayers don't mind.

Please elaborate. Short term and long term perspective.

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You realize this would severely cripple this country, right?

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Companies can (and would) move to other states. Might be some issues with produce cost until production could be shifted to other states, but that would eventually settle down.

California has far, FAR more to lose. Which is why it will never happen.

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Please elaborate. Short term and long term perspective.

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While businesses may or may not move, there is an overwhelming portion of the technical sector located in California. A lot of the technical infrastructure would suffer.

California is also the largest food producer in the country. While it is about the same as their population, if the businesses and people leave as assumed, then way more mouths to feed with a significant drop in food production by the rest of the country.

They're the 4th largest oil supplier, 11th in energy production while being 49th in energy usage per capita.

(On a side note, the #1 state in energy usage per capita is Louisiana... HOW?)

California generates 13.7% of the US GDP.

They are the second largest producer of livestock (behind Texas). They are the leading provider of fish.

California provides all the boron in the US. This is used for rocket fuel, so kinda important.

As I tell my liberal friends who hoped Texas would secede, both states are huge providers for this country and EITHER leaving would be devastating. It is painfully short-sighted to wish for either state to leave the Union for the sake of momentary political advantage.

There are some states that could leave and people would probably not even notice. California and Texas aren't among them though.

Well agree or not, he just did...

I give you the tech industry, but some of that would inevitably move.

We produce far more food in this country than we need, see farm subsidies. We'll be fine.

Oil/energy - 49th per capita in consumption is convenient, but they are a net importer of energy and are very reliant on oil from OPEC. Relative shortage of oil pipelines transporting oil from the plains is a problem for them. There have been great strides in efficiencies in oil and Nat gas production in the plains and Pennsylvania while Californian oil production, while still around 9% of the US total, has declined. As we move forward we appear to be moving towards potential Atlantic energy exploration under Trump. We'll be fine without Californias oil production which is mostly used in California.

My guess on Louisiana consuming the most energy per capita is the unbearable heat for long periods of time.

If I were a Californian my major concerns would be tax policy, entitlements, and debt load. Exiting the US would likely undo their debt profile in relative short order. They'd be forced to make massive and unpopular budget cuts. They of course would hike taxes even more. This would accelerate business fleeing California.

California leaving would also be the beginning of the end for present day liberalism in America which would allow more sensible policymaking that could spur growth in their abscence.

They will also love the CBP presence too.