Donn James
Who is this bonehead who wants to turn California into six smaller states? Thankfully, his initiative didn’t make it on to the ballot, probably because half the people couldn’t stop laughing long enough to sign his petition and the other half just thought he was kidding. Six little states…yeah, that’ll solve all the problems. We’re the Gulliver of states and he wants to turn us into a bunch of Lilliputians. His contention was that we’re too big to govern efficiently and smaller states would result in a more efficient government. Apparently he didn’t ask Rhode Island how that was working out for them. The whole state is about as big as an area rug and their biggest export crop is the scrap metal from the buildings they’re tearing down. Or Greece. You can ride a donkey from one end of the country to the other in about 20 minutes and they can’t even sell enough yogurt and olives to stay afloat. Breaking California into six smaller states is like Snow White putting the dwarfs in charge and those guys couldn’t get out of their own way. Besides, if we get that small, Oregon could come down here and kick our butts.
One supposed benefit of the Six California system would be that government would be smaller and elected officials would have a better understanding of what their constituents wanted. Since when has that helped? Nobody is listening to us or we wouldn’t be seriously considering a bullet train. I’ve been around a lot longer than a tortoise on a Texas highway and I’m still waiting for any government to listen to me. At this point I could be mayor of my own one-person town and I couldn’t even get me to listen to me.
To the surprise of no one, critics charged that this was just a way to separate California’s wealthy areas from the poor but that’s stupid also because we already do that. That’s why Malibu is where it is and Reseda is in the valley. And do you think Bakersfield would stay in Bakersfield if it could afford to move? California actually has a place we call Death Valley. Isn’t that appealing? I’m ready to pack my bags. And I think Temecula is the Indian word for “Entrance to Hell.”
I have come up with a simpler plan that requires no surveying or site maps. See, I don’t think we’re taking advantage of our existing infrastructure. We have a perfect dividing line already in the I-5 and rather than making a bunch of little states, I would just sell everything east of the I-5 to Arizona and Nevada and if they couldn’t make the payments, we would foreclose and repossess the land after they had fixed it up.
I looked at his proposed names and a map of his proposed states. He really put very little thought into the names but he may have been pressed for time before he was committed to the asylum. The northern part of the state was to be called Jefferson…I’m assuming because Washington was already taken. The new state area we currently call Silicon Valley was going to be named…Silicon Valley, so not a lot of thought went into that. Actually, the guy who came up with this plan is from Silicon Valley and he just didn’t want to have to change his stationery and you have to go to the post office to get the change of address postcard and nobody wants to do that. Once he decided his area, I think he just threw his hands in the air and gave up because the last four areas were North, West, South and Central California. So, not a lot of brain cells were used in that decision. I would, at least, have named three of them Larry, Moe and Curly Joe.
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