(FYI Darius Barazandeh is one of my best friends and we both share this opinion)Also, this is a serious confession, I mean serious confession, but I haven't sold the Cooperative Purchase as a national speaker in years because students just weren't doing enough with it, or without the kind of support that became almost impossible to financially afford.

In defense of Californians, the socialists control the big cities and have enough votes to control the whole state (and just about enough votes to control the national elections).There are plenty of conservatives on farms and in small towns who don't have the numbers to have any say in matters.

National Debt.

I was ineffectively trying to enunciate one of the true problems that I think our Nation faces: entitlement.

Never mind, I'm sure the requirement isn't just a one day class.Seems this time Cali isn't that different than the rest of the nation. :)

I had really poor service at a national restaurant chain like 15+ years ago and I have never been back, I'm showing them ;-)

Same can happen if a city is surrounded by government owned/controlled land such as a national forrest.

@Michele Fischer Michele you can do that in Longview your not going to do that in most of the mid west and especially tenants that live in 300 dollar units. safety issues @Darrin CareyDArrin this was the hardest thing for the Australians to get over.. they just can't imagine that all US citizens do not have checking accounts and that the rent is not ACH'd on the 1st of the month... or bi weekly like they do there....And why do these people not have checking accounts ( because they can't get them they have bounced to many checks and are in the BAD bucket that is a national data base)

Let's say you start a national franchisee juice bar with the best chance of success (for a non-juice bar experienced person).

He was just selected as one of the 10 rising stars for our national network and believes there is a niche that isn't being filling in real estate in the form of social media.