Liberal California fails at fighting poverty, conservative Texas succeeds

FoxNews.com ^ | 21-Sept-2017 | Chuck DeVore

[topher]

iberal California and conservative Texas are different in many ways – including their poverty rates.

California’s poverty rate is 20.4 percent and the Texas rate is only 14.7 percent, based on the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which accounts for the regional cost of living, out-of-pocket medical expenses and other items.

Why the dramatic difference in poverty between California and Texas – proportionately 38.8 percent higher in the Golden State, and affecting the lives of millions of people? And what can we as a nation learn from the success of Texas and the failure of California to hold down their poverty rates?

[topher]

Let's face it: California (Government) dumps on the poor for the sake of RICH Hollywood community.

Lots of regulations to keep things nice for Hollywood community -- at the expense of the poor.

Just TAX the heck out of California residents -- hurting the poor the most...

[topher]

I remember visiting Malibu in the 1960's. There were beaches everywhere accessible from PCH. When I went back in the late 1970s, I couldn't find them -- RICH Hollywood actors/actresses/producers had the beachfront property.

Then whenever Pacific storms threatened these homes, Hollywood actors/actresses CRIED for help. I remember that also from the late 1970s.

These are the same LOONEY TUNES that take up every STUPID political cause these days...

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Just $694.00 dollars to 99.00%

[exDemMom]

I do not think that opening the borders helps, either.

I saw Mexicans living in shanties in the Bay Area last March—much like they lived in Mexico, no doubt. I doubt they are visible from the freeways, but they are near the train tracks. We saw them because we took Amtrak to CA.

Increasing the payouts to the poor only subsidizes poverty. Plus, it guarantees the vote of the poor (if they vote)—which is the goal of most “poverty” programs.

CA really is implementing the socialist dream—which has no room or desire for a middle class.

[kearnyirish2]

It is high time people start realizing that poverty itself is a massive industry, and many people are employed in it administering to the downtrodden. Just as race hustlers need grievances to raise cash, a whole government worker caste has grown around poverty.

If people really got their stuff together and straightened out, what would the masses of bureaucrats, social workers, etc. do for a living? They have jobs with no value in the private sector.

[Bender2]

It is real simple, topher... Uncle Bawley summed up the difference between Texas vs California up in the film Giant back in the 1950s:

"Bick, you shoulda shot that fella a long time ago... Now he's too rich to kill."

And he's one cousin... who wouldn't ever tell a lie!

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[OttawaFreeper]

Stories like yours make me think of a few years ago, I watched a PBS documentary on the beginnings of Silicon Valley back in the early to mid 1950s. If my memory serves me properly, a couple of electronics firms moved from New York to set up shop in the area just outside of the San Francisco-San Jose area and they were about the first to move into the area like that. The documentary showed home movie footage and photographs of an area that was filled with lovely countryside with fruit and nut farms (I know mentioning that will get a few chuckles here).

To think that that area was Republican and conservative for all of those years up until and during that time. The costs for setting up shop and doing business there probably made it a no brainer for those coming over from New York or elsewhere on the East Coast and to look at California nowadays, really ought to take your breath away.

[redgolum]

You can be poor, and live decently, in CA. In TX, you won’t live as well.

So, if you are looking at government benefits, you go to CA.

[super7man]

and many people are employed in it administering to the downtrodden

26% of each welfare dollar makes it to a recipient. 74% goes to administration.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Silicon Valley is the biggest cash cow for the state...

[Hotlanta Mike]

Pretty soon California will be asking the federal government to pay for toilet paper...

[jagusafr]

Gee, wonder why all those Californians are moving here to Texas? Reminds me of the difference between a Yankee and a damn Yankee: A Yankee comes and visits, then goes home.

[SaraJohnson]

A lot of people don’t believe it when I tell them Texas is the best state I have lived in. (I’ve lived in 14 because my dad had a special job in the Navy and as an adult I have moved around, too.) They imagine Texas to be an expansion of Mexico.

Although building is not regulated heavily, it still turns out alright and housing’s a lot cheaper than most places. It’s easier to start a small business. And there is a unique and alive Texas culture here that is sweet when you tune into it.

Texas is not perfect, but any means. But it is good. I hope the blue staters who move here let it be. So far, so good.

[Deplorable American1776]

For states to succeed, they should try Texas’ way....

[kearnyirish2]

I’m sure - and the businesses that get the remaining 26% want the gravy train to keep rolling! When you see the big chains closing stores (at least here in NJ), they are closing them in areas with scattered populations of taxpayers. They never close them in the ‘hoods and barrios because that 26% quickly ends up in the cash registers there (and in bodegas, fast food joints, etc.)...