Posted on 04/12/2018 9:25:01 AM PDT by Starman417
Progressive socialists have taken a once glorious state, full of opportunity, new ideas, and weather that most in this nation would fight for.I arrived in California during my Navy career and stayed because I thought the shiny sparkling California I saw at the time would remain the beacon for the rest of the country. California has always been called the tip of the spear of changes in this country.
The spear of change has been turned on the people of this state, of which, unfortunately, I am still one. A wave of progressive social policies has been forced upon those people in the middle class who still work. The effort that these workers show leads to nothing but high state taxes higher gas taxes, higher costs of living and housing due to restrictive land-use regulations.
Leading the nation in the number of homeless in our cities, and illegals throughout our State have reached epidemic proportions. A drive through Los Angeles, San Francisco, or any other major city in California will show countless homeless, immigrants and illegal aliens living on the street, making entire sections of the city uninhabitable. Business is leaving in droves, no longer willing to pay high taxes and adhere to devastating business regulations.
California is willing to follow progressive socialist business regulations to send as much money to the State and close out the opportunity for business growth. California ranks 48th in the Tax Foundations 2018 State Business Tax Climate Index. After the businesses, citizens, and middle class were destroyed our Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown forced through Proposition 30 increasing sales and income taxes. By increasing these tax rates and burdening the people in this state both personally and commercially, California’s economic growth has been stagnant if not falling. This has lead California to hold the dubious distinction of being the Poverty Capital of the United States.
What has California done to alleviate this situation? They have overlapping State and municipal benefit programs that share assistance with anyone whose income is 200% above the poverty line. The State has spent $958 billion on public welfare programs including illegals and with 12% of the population, California is home to 1 of 3 of the nations welfare recipients including illegal immigrants. 55% of immigrant families in the State get means-tested benefits.
The leftist progressive socialists who run this state have visions of staying in power in perpetuity, even if it means voter fraud will be rampant through the State. Judicial Watch sent a letter to Alex Padilla, California Secretary of State for Election Integrity showing proof that 11 counties in the state had more registered voters that citizens of the country and were out of compliance with the National Voter Registration Act.Padilla has refused to work with the federal government in the probe of voter fraud or reveal voter information.
Our progressive socialist leaders have poured money into a high-speed bullet train not wanted by the citizens of the State, which is three times the budget stated when voted on, and doing nothing more than funneling monies to the unions and government entities that will further raise the price and timetable for such a useless project. The center of the resistance in California is former Attorney General Eric “contempt of Congress” Holder, hired with money the taxpayers of the State do not have to “Resist” a President he disagrees with.
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Queue the “Get out” and “Commifornia” idiots in 3,2,1...
California is in fact seceding from the rest of the USA but they’re doing so (for now) incrementally and in slow motion.
Saying so doesn’t make me or anyone else into an idiot.
It just shows we have a grasp of the obvious.
There is nothing progressive about California.
Its been awhile.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377367/posts
I got out about a decade ago primarily do to taxes, the narcissistic culture, and the leftist big government and union corruption. Does that make me an idiot?
Tech companies have been packing up and exiting for some time now.
That observation always seemed to capture the California of my mind's eye.
Wonderful article but UTTERLY USELESS until Right-leaning lawyers start prosecuting individual members of this Leftist conspiracy for their blatant illegal acts. Another place, another forum, how was Holder allowed to defy Congress and get away with it utterly unpunished? Wake up Republicans, the water is slowly being brought to the boil!
California is a majority non white state, and it goes to show what is going to happen to the entire country in 20 years or less if our legal and illegal immigration doesn’t change.
The cardboard, tent, tarp ghettos do not affect the socialist overlords.
Worked at Freescale ... used to be Motorola and recently at AMD. Both plants are on the hill left bottom corner
For the price of a shack in Palo Alto, you can have a home on Lake Travis and a boat too.
That info just screams MOVE! Anyone in Palo Alto needs to rethink staying in CA!
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Palo-Alto-CA/pmf,pf_pt/19467417_zpid/26374_rid/globalrelevanceex_sort/37.499376,-121.950989,37.263943,-122.320061_rect/11_zm/?
60 years old. 1800 sq ft. $2.6 million.
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Austin-TX/pmf,pf_pt/29366835_zpid/10221_rid/views-lake-travis-_att/globalrelevanceex_sort/31.508312,-97.407532,29.465905,-100.360108_rect/8_zm/?
On Lake Travis. 4400 sq ft. $960,000.
Buy a 35’ SeaRay too and still have money left over.
There is NO way I would live in CA with MOONBEAM. LOL TX House seems far better deal.
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