<HTML>In a message dated 4/1/01 5:35:38 PM Central Daylight Time, Erwinpiano@email.msn.com (Erwinpiano) writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> We > > grow 99 percent or more of the nation's almonds, artichokes, dates, figs, > > kiwifruit, olives, persimmons, pistachios, prunes, raisins and walnuts. > > Hope you won't miss them.>></BLOCKQUOTE> I won't, I never eat any of those items. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> > > > California is the nation's number one dairy state.  We're keeping our > dairy > > products.  We'll need plenty of fresh ones since our refrigerators can't > be > > relied upon.  Got milk?</BLOCKQUOTE> Yep, we sure do, plenty of it.  So much of it in fact that the market can't sell all of it and the price farmers get for it barely makes any profit yet most people in this state are too fat from drinking all the milk, eating all the cheese and beef. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> > > > We Californians are gonna keep all our high-tech software in state. > > Silicon > > Valley is ours, after all.  Without enough electricity, which you're > > apparently keeping for yourselves, we just plain don't have enough > software > > to spare. > ></BLOCKQUOTE> Many of these businesses will soon move to places where electricity is plentiful and cheap. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> > We're keeping all our airplanes.  California builds a good percentage of > > the > > commercial airliners available to fly you people to where you want to go.</BLOCKQUOTE> ditto I moved away from there 25 years ago and haven't missed it one bit.  They make excellent wine here in Wisconsin but the imported wine from France is cheaper.  Our oranges and juice come from Florida, Texas, Mexico and South America as do any other fruits and vegetables worth eating. It's high time you threw people like Jane Fonda out not only for her treasonous acts in Viet Nam but for duping people into closing the Nuclear power plant at Rancho Seco.  You want juice?  Get it from Nukes.  You want fresh water?  There's the whole Pacific Ocean right on your coast, all you need is enough power from a couple dozen good Nuke stations to get the salt out of it. Bye the way, the movies there are these days that come from there just aren't worth watching.  Any of the ones I do see seem to come from somewhere else. I like it better here.  The cost of living is low and there is an abundance of all consumer items.  We're also building several new power plants to be fired by natural gas.  Has your state decided yet to build even *one* new one or to reopen the one that Jane Fonda had closed down? Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin</HTML>