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People's Republik of California Now #1 in Poverty
The Pirate's Cove ^ | November 16, 2012 | William Teach

Posted on 11/16/2012 9:10:09 AM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost

The brokeyest broke state in the nation (which means it is also one of the brokeyest broke entities in the world, as it has the world’s 8th largest economy) has long served as the place where the far left has conducted field experiments for their policies. How’s that working out? Neil Munro tells us

(Daily Caller) The Golden State has fallen on hard times, with a poverty rate that is now twice as bad as West Virginia’s and substantially worse than the rates of poverty in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas.

Democrat-run California earned its last-place rank under the federal government’s new measure of poverty, which incorporates more detailed analyses of welfare payments and the local costs of food, gasoline and housing. (View the new census data report)

The state’s costs are boosted by its environmental and workplace regulations, and by 38 million residents’ competition for housing close to the sea.

Hooray, they’re #1, they’re #!!!!!1!!!! I’m betting they really want to lean on the liberal trope that there are no winners and losers, so everyone should get a blue ribbon for competing.

The new measure, dubbed the “Supplemental Poverty Measure,” revised the California’s poverty rate from 16.3 percent up to 23.5 percent.

The report estimates that roughly 8.8 million people in California were poor during between 2009 and 2011, when Democrats controlled the state legislature and governorship, as well as the White House. (snip)

The new measure supplants a poverty gauge developed in the 1960s. It incorporates the economic impact of welfare programs, transportation and child-care costs, changes in child-rearing practices — especially the impact of single parents raising kids — plus differences in the region’s average prices and health care costs.

This is all despite the large number of lefties working in the entertainment and tech industries, making boodles of money and refusing to give back. A large number of 1%ers failing to help the 99%ers.

The massive influx of illegal aliens sure doesn’t help. They’ve caused many southern California emergency rooms to shut down, and approximately one third of the California prison population is comprised of illegals. Then you add in the “progressive” nanny state policies and high taxes, the job killing uber-environmental policies, support of unions policies, and other workplace policies, and you end up with Brokeifornia having the worst poverty rate. Congratulations!


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: bluestates; ca; ca2012; democrats; poverty; top10

1 posted on 11/16/2012 9:10:13 AM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost
There's no doubt in my mind the margin of growth of poverty in this state over the past 30 years is 100% due to the influx of illegal aliens.

Lets give them a 'path to citizenship' and all the taxpayer subsidized goodies that come with it. Thats the ticket

2 posted on 11/16/2012 9:22:41 AM PST by skeeter
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

You won’t hear any complaints from me if the so called entertainment industry goes belly up. Actors and actresses clearly make way too much. It isn’t fair.

Tax Hollyweird!


3 posted on 11/16/2012 9:23:42 AM PST by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost
West Virgina:

"We just thank God that we don't suffer like those poor fools in Califernia"

4 posted on 11/16/2012 9:25:24 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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The b***h of it is we had a huge influx of Californians into Colorado in recent years who came here to escape the fiscal disaster in their home state only to bring their Liberal policies to our state government ( all Dems in the Colorado state house including the Governor ) therefore Colorado is heading down the fiscal tube, soon to join Cal. I am a Colorado native who loved this state but now that it is a blue state I am heading north to Wyoming. Ye reap what you sow California ( Colorado)!!
5 posted on 11/16/2012 9:29:08 AM PST by St.Mark
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The blue cancer metastasizes yet again. CO used to be my #1 “gonna move there someday” state. Stinking Californicators.


6 posted on 11/16/2012 9:34:31 AM PST by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

Liberalism run amok.


7 posted on 11/16/2012 10:13:47 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Yup, take a good look America. This will be you within the decade.


8 posted on 11/16/2012 10:14:34 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: St.Mark

“The b***h of it is we had a huge influx of Californians into Colorado in recent years”

Don’t panic. The Californicators are just stopping to gas up their beaten up 1975 Mazeratis. They’ll soon leave their make shift camps to head for legendary home of their ancestors, a place called Oklahoma, to find work picking peanuts.


9 posted on 11/16/2012 11:26:21 AM PST by haroldeveryman
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To: Trod Upon

I remember a bumper sticker from the seventies - “Don’t Californicate Oregon”.


10 posted on 11/16/2012 1:02:33 PM PST by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

There are #1!!! Yes... You did it, LIBS...Congratulation!!


11 posted on 11/16/2012 1:12:06 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (More Republicans stayed home then the margin of victory of O's Win...)
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

Send more actors.


12 posted on 11/16/2012 1:14:08 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: St.Mark

Yep, all you have to do is see what they did to Washington and Oregon. That is Colorado’s future. At first it will be from Denver north to Ft. Collins, then when the cost of living is too high they will try to infect Colorado Springs.

Wyoming is a good choice, but Cheyenne and Laramie, due to their proximity to Colorado, may soon get infected, if they aren’t already. Jackson Hole is a “hole” due to wealthy liberals infestation. Unless you are tied to Denver-Ft. Collins corridor due to work, I’d head for Gillette or Cody.


13 posted on 11/16/2012 3:29:38 PM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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