Posted on 07/24/2013 4:41:13 PM PDT by SteelToe
Perhaps nothing more illustrates the evolving inner class conflict within the progressive political movement than the recent embrace of California as a role model for the rest of the country. The Golden State, maintains John Judis of the New Republic, should provide the game plan for the Obama administration as it seeks a path back to relevance. As an old-style, and increasingly marginal, Democrat, my response is "say what?" After all, even by the standards of the tepid national recovery, California, for all the celebration, still lags. The state has consistently suffered among the highest unemployment rates in the country – now ranking around sixth at 8.5 percent – and now, according to the U.S. Census, the highest rate of poverty in the country.
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I find it hard to believe that it has the highest rate of poverty in the country. I thought that honor belonged to the folks in the back hills of wherever. Guess not.
Americans move out and illegals move in
The illegals who FLOOD the state are Mexicans. They are encouraged to flood because these illegals send BILLIONS of dollars (not pesos) back to Mexico. That takes immense heat off of Mexico to get off their fat kulos butts and do something for their own gente.
The Americans who have moved out of California go where? I don't know. Where do they go? It's all about jobs. Folks go where there are jobs. Where are all the jobs?
California's Silicon Valley brings in folks from ALL over the planet for work. The people who come for the computer industry are NOT illegal, nor are they uneducated. You only have to look at the prices of property and homes in Silicon Valley to see what kind of salaries HAVE to exist to entice those computer folks.
Republicans, if they had any ability for politics at all, would be able to exploit the cracks until the democrat party disintegrates.
The chief enemy of everyone, from republicans to democrats, is the lilly white liberals, who believe they have a divine right to be a ruling class. Obama, far from being a black president, has never crossed the white ruling class yet. The closest he has come is his new plan at HUD for forced integration,l but let's see if any section 8 housing shows up in Martha's Vineyard.
There is some irony here. For years these CA libs have pushed for more third world immigration. They got that and now the Mexicans are taking their elected positions.
Just because they are not in an elected position doesn't mean they have no power. Look at Obama. Is he really governing as a black man? The number one issue with blacks is jobs. Has he done anything about jobs that help blacks?
He has blocked the Keystone pipeline, which would create thousands of jobs, and some of those would go to blacks. Why did he block it? The only group that doesn't want it is the lilly white ruling class, which has a higher priority on environmentalism than jobs.
Obama has spent money to "invest" in jobs, but where do they go? Clean energy scams that are wanted by and run by the white ruling class, and they don't create jobs for anyone else. His war on coal doesn't come from minorities, and will drive up their utility bills. He got close to banning fracking as well. Was that pressure from blacks, or the white ruling class?
Immigration doesn't really hurt the white ruling class. It gives them low wage workers who will work for them, and are not competition for the jobs of the white ruling class. Plus, they will vote for them and their causes, cementing them in power. And they will dilute the political power of blacks in the democrat party. Blacks get nothing, again, white ruling class wins, immigrants win.
Gay marriage? Not a black issue. The majority of out of the closet gays are white, so it creates a new victim designation and slices the pie thinner for blacks. Now even white males get to be victims.
Has Obama prosecuted Wall Street criminals? Less than any president since the 90s.
And it goes on and on. Obama is exclusively the president of the white ruling class, and everyone else gets crumbs, even other democrats.
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