Huffington Magazine Issue 70 | Page 32

Voices taste like powdered glue. And they wonder, “Why can’t we get that here?” Unless they’re Republicans, in which case they wonder, “How can people live like that?” Well, swallow hard, guys, because California is eventually going to make all Americans live like that. Why? Because we’re huge. The 12th-largest economy in the world, the fifth largest agricultural exporter in the world, and of course number one in laser vaginal rejuvenation. There’s 40 million of us — so, for example, when California set a high mileage standard for any car sold in this state, Detroit had to make more fuel-efficient cars; we’re just too big a slice of the market, and it would be too expensive to make one car for us, and another for shit-kickers who want something that runs on coal. It’s so ironic — the two things conservatives love the most, the free market and states rights