No state illustrates this pattern of boom, bust and forced boom better than California.

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Plants are small, reflecting the scattered pattern of farms, and their condition is deteriorating, because the state cannot muster the necessary investment.

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So the dominant pattern is the breakaway state has to begin by applying for admission to the UN and in the case of the EU it would be the EU as well.

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There is every reason to believe the pattern at the state level will be repeated if President Barack Obama is re-elected and the Democrats retain control of the Senate.

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