BOB2 Wrote:
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> Hutch maybe works in CA, and lives here because
> this is one of the ten wealthiest and best paid
> states in the US, and he makes good money here.
>
> CA has one the largest percentages folks with more
> than a high school degree, and has more college
> undergraduates, graduate, and professional degrees
> (JD, MD, PhD) than the 9 states with higher
> percentages put together. And, is one of the
> highest income states. Which is maybe why CA is a
> "donor" state, that only gets back about 95% of
> the taxes we pay the Federal "gubmint" back,
> because we have to pick up the slack, on about 23
> (what is the latest number on that?) poorer CA
> "welfare" benefitting, recipient states.
>
> Maybe, he works in any industry that has a
> connection to trade, since, CA carries through it
> nearly half the value of imports, and has 3 of the
> most cost effective and direct rail routes to
> transport it to the rest of the country. Where,
> those awful ILWU guys, with a strong union, can
> still knock down a couple of hundred K a year,
> with OT, unloading those containers.
>
> Maybe, he works for a studio, or production
> company, who are based overwhelmingly here. Even
> the teamsters driving the stuff to locations make
> better three of four times the wages most
> non-union truck drivers do in anti-union states.
>
> Maybe he works for SpaceX or JPL? Or maybe,
> Laurence Livermore, or UC Davis, or USC, or
> Stanford, or City of Hope, doing research on
> everything from space, to advanced materials, to
> the cures for cancers?
>
> Maybe he is working on AI? Or, maybe he's working
> for Tesla? Or, maybe he's installing solar
> panels? Or, maybe he's just one of the millions
> of folks supporting all of the folks that are
> doing those things...
>
> Maybe, he works in tourism, one of CA's largest
> employers, at Magic Mountain, Knott's Berry Farm,
> Magic Mountain, Universal, Sequoia, Kings Canyon,
> Yosemite, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, the Redwoods
> State Park, Mammoth Mountain, in cultural tourism
> at the Getty, the Norton Simon, the Huntington
> Library, or even driving the Hollywood Site Seeing
> Buses... Maybe, he works in RR tourism at the
> Sierra, or the CSRM, or Roaring Camp...?
>
> Maybe, he's in construction, a contractor, or in
> some other trade, because we do have the largest
> population and the most building, and the biggest
> freeway system, and water system in the nation,
> with a lot of work, that provides. Or, maybe,
> he's connected to the building homes, or that
> "evil" "in-fill", or even on a new subway line, or
> commuter project like Redlands?
>
> Or, maybe, Hutch just likes the rich rail history
> of CA, and the fact that we have one of the best
> intercity, and urban commute networks in the US,
> and you can sit at the Fullerton depot, sipping a
> cold beer, watching the sunset on a nice spring
> afternoon and see more passenger and freight
> action in a few hours, than most folks have seen,
> in 90% of the country, in the last year.
>
> Maybe, it's just the weather, as one of my
> friends, retired out of CA, to one of these rural
> paradises, just mostly spent last week, shoveling
> snow, so he could get his car free, to drive
> seventy five miles, to the nearest medical office,
> for his appointment...
>
> I don't know why Hutch is here, except for the
> pretty good reasons he gives, work and family.
> But, I do know that he posts some good rail stuff
> he finds, though, and that trolls like you never
> do.
>
> That RR history and action, would be enough, for a
> lot of folks. That's because this is supposed to
> be a rail board.
>
> AP was started as train board. It wasn't supposed
> to be the I hate CA discussion board (or, an I
> hate, "fill in the politics, race, sex.. blank",
> site), for a tiny pile of losers, and the daily
> dose of pus they seem to always spew, about how
> much they hate CA, or whoever else they hate and
> blame for the condition of their pathetic
> lives....
>
> Nope, LOL, maybe you're not from CA... Maybe,
> given the type of content, you could be posting
> from a broken down RV, outside of a tweeker
> shooting gallery and glory hole, somewhere out in
> one of America's rural opioid and meth consuming
> low wage economic powerhouses...? Or maybe, these
> days, even from Moscow, or St. Petersburg...?
>
> And, PDX please stop baiting them... I know it
> can be tempting. They are so predictable, and
> that making fools of them can be like "shooting
> fish in a barrel" (that's a metaphor, too),
> because this handful of trolls are usually such
> pathetic losers, that they make an easy target...
> But try... I'm even trying... Although, I do
> know that when you read some of the stupid crap
> that these nitwits spew, it's real hard....
>
> As Samuel L Jackson said, in that last scene (shot
> right here in CA), "I'm trying real hard..."
>
> But, I couldn't control myself on this one, so I'm
> hitting post....

C’mon Bob Everyone knows I work in the Adult Entertainment Business ;)