Posted on 09/13/2019 5:44:20 PM PDT by John Semmens
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he will sign legislation that the California Trucking Association claims "will put tens of thousands of owner-operator truckers, who service agriculture, retail and other industry sectors, out of business."
Newsom called owner-operated trucking "a no longer needed vestige of the past. I know that there is a certain kind of nostalgia for these modern day 'cowboys' driving goods around the state. But in the progressive future we envision for our state and the nation independent truckers are outside of the role required for a socially cooperative model of how the economy should operate. It should not be up to individual buyers and sellers to reach agreements on prices and routes for transporting commodities. Ideally, these determinations should be made by the government in order to ensure that resources are properly allocated to the most useful purposes."
The Governor tried to reassure independent truckers who have invested large sums to buy and operate their vehicles that "the government will purchase their trucks and hire the drivers to work as unionized employees. We will be converting them from being small-time capitalists into unionized members of a statewide drivers' collective. They will be guaranteed fair wages and be relieved of the risks and uncertainties of independent operations."
In other California news, Democrats in the California Senate gave party-line approval to a resolution demanding people of faith in the state change how they teach, preach, and counsel others related to LGBT identities and behaviors. Assemblyman Evan Low (D-San Jose), author of the resolution, argued that "our efforts to mold people's minds to our way of thinking should not have to tolerate insidious and systemic contradictions from the pulpits of the state's churches. Everyone needs to be on the same page if we are to overturn outmoded thinking about sex and gender." Low admitted that "the current resolution doesn't outlaw deviant preaching, per se. It is our hope that we can spark voluntary compliance and not have to go the route taken by the Chinese government to directly control religious doctrine via threat of punishment."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/268107-2019-09-13-semi-news-semi-satire-september-15-2019-edition.htm
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California is on a roll and by next week they should have everything Outlawed ,LOL
Great stuff!
You’re still going strong.
Having read the bill, this isn’t satire. It’s reportage. In 1975 there was an NBC series, Movin On about indy truckers with Claude Akins and Frank Converse. In the show it was the union drivers, Teamsters, who were the occasionally appearig bad guys and the Indies as the weekly heroes. Things change as Joe Monyegna said to Don Ameche in the eponymous movie.
A DNC shipping charge on all goods shipped!
“California is on a roll and by next week they should have everything Outlawed ,LOL”
Only the Normal stuff. They’ll be having pride parades for what the deviants and delusionals like.
Let them eat cake.
Why, oh why are you ignoring the plight of us Uber and Lyft drivers?
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