re: California is now the 4th largest economy in the world

Lakeboy has a hardon for California.

I'm assuming he lives there, so he finds the need to talk shite about Louisiana anytime someone bad mouths California.

If he doesn't live there, that's really pathetic.

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f California, Oregon and Washington left the Union and formed a separate country they would have a per capita gdp greater than any major nation.

In the same time if the American North East left with New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland Delaware, Virginia, New Hamshire, Maine and Vermont, that nation would also have a per capita gdp greater than any major nation.

Combine that with a free trade agreement between these two nations, Canada and a free passage for citizens through Canada and you have a modern day economic powerhouse zone with one of the highest per capita GDP. Extend this with FTA with Australia, NZ and the UK and you have an economy far more robust than both the US, EU or China.

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This is a comical fantasy based on a complete absence of comprehension of what those numbers mean and where they come from. What precisely will they trade with their free trade agreement? Legal services and bank accounts? Illegal aliens? Do you think the rest of the country they left would keep their bank accounts there?

As another poster noted, that GDP doesn't hold up very well when you look at actual value created. Selling existing over-valued real estate is not value creation.

Use your logic to explain Singapore and Hong Kong to me.

The coasts are not just bank accounts. They are a lot more. They are technology, services etc.

What does the rest of the country make other than agriculture.

You are thinking like we are in 1950s.

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We are being robbed by California.

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louisiana could have so much more money than it does..but it's robbed itself for decades

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Use your logic to explain Singapore and Hong Kong to me.

The coasts are not just bank accounts. They are a lot more. They are technology, services etc.

What does the rest of the country make other than agriculture.

You are thinking like we are in 1950s.

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You are thinking like you're clueless. In your own post, you list "services". Those are highly portable and no one would use services from this fictional Bluestainistan. You need to get out of your coastal bubble and see the rest of the country. Without its energy production, manufacturing, and yes, agriculture, Bluestainistan would quickly be relegated to third world status, with a handful of elites and myriad poor.

US GDP growth has been crazy the past 25 years. Our largest states are bigger than a lot of our peer countries.

If you want to see something crazy….compare our GDP per capita to Canada’s since about 1995. They were ahead of us at one point but we absolutely ran away with it.

Another crazy one…Mississippi’s GDP per capita isn’t that far off from some of our allies. Louisiana's is actually higher than many of them. Florida is close to the bigger EU nations too.

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What’s the number?

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I don't know the number, but these are some of the tech companies with headquarters in Cali: Facebook, Cisco, HP, Ebay, Paypal, Adobe, Intell, etc.
Just the DEI programs alone could be their own country!

Surely, if California's economy is stronger than Japan and Germany, that state ahould be able to fund comparable high speed infrastructure on its own without the need for federal assistance drawn from the general pool of the other states.

DoD is who built the Silicon Valley industry.