Thesis

[substitute]

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.

Comments

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

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).

[hoyvenmayven.livejournal.com]

*pulls up a chair*

[miss-geek.livejournal.com]

please, something worth reading... pretty please?

[chaptal.livejournal.com]

Ah, those were the days. Living on the other coast, I rememeber that, but not the impact.

[pandaxian.livejournal.com]

you are correct, sir. I do not recall such happenings, as I was currently swimming inside a ballsack in 1979.

[srl.livejournal.com]

Assorted webpages say June 1978, though they have a variety of perspectives.

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Yesh. 1979 was the year it took effect.

[charlotesmetmes.livejournal.com]

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....

teh doom

[torgo-x.livejournal.com]

Not Nixon? Or his re-election? Not Reagan being elected governor to "clean up the mess in Berkeley"?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I'm a little younger. and I agree it was the downfall of California.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

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.