Posted on 07/07/2016 5:45:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
There was more of the same old, same old California news recently. Some 62 percent of state roads have been rated poor or mediocre. There were more predictions of huge cost overruns and yearly losses on high-speed rail -- before the first mile of track has been laid. One-third of Bay Area residents were polled as hoping to leave the area soon.
Such pessimism is daily fare, and for good reason.
The basket of California state taxes -- sales, income and gasoline -- rates among the highest in the U.S. Yet California roads and K-12 education rank near the bottom.
After years of drought, California has not built a single new reservoir. Instead, scarce fresh aqueduct water is still being diverted to sea. Thousands of rural central California homes, in Dust Bowl fashion, have been abandoned due to a sinking aquifer and dry wells.
One in three American welfare recipients resides in California. Almost a quarter of the state population lives below or near the poverty line. Yet the state's gas and electricity prices are among the nation's highest.
One in four state residents was not born in the U.S. Current state-funded pension programs are not sustainable.
California depends on a tiny elite class for about half of its income tax revenue. Yet many of these wealthy taxpayers are fleeing the 40-million-person state, angry over paying 12 percent of their income for lousy public services.
Public health costs have soared as one-third of California residents admitted to state hospitals for any causes suffer from diabetes, a sometimes-lethal disease often predicated on poor diet, lack of exercise and excessive weight.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
‘One-third of Bay Area residents were polled as hoping to leave the area soon’
Lets hope they were thinking in-state and not out.
People have threatened to leave CA for the last 40 years. Enough did leave to turn CO, OR and WA into liberal sewers, but still there are millions and millions in CA just sticking there taking the slow beating.
I miss the weather and all the things to do.
But I fled due to these very problems. I really didn’t appreciate being punished for being successful. Then being punished more as I got more successful.
California is headed to be the Venezuela of the USA. They have Puerto Rico as a good example.
Coddle the takers and ostracize the makers. That works every time.
I dunno.
Venezuela sits on more oil than Saudi Arabia and has amazing farm land.
And they are starving in the dark.
And progressives/the left destroyed it.
I was once “sentenced” to California. I married a great girl and we made our escape thirty years ago. It was a close call. Now her family, who always made fun of us Okies, have all fled, too; some of them here to Okieland.
Oldplayer
Not as long as California is run by DemocRats who invite in millions of illegal aliens and make Californians pay for them.
It is hard to distinguish between much of Los Angeles from Mexico City.
Remember the rich Beach culture of the TV show Baywatch..?
If you throw a frisbee or a football on LA County beaches you are fined $1,000, not $100.
$1,000.
Didn’t mean to hijack this thread. V.D.H. again writes a great article. We need more thinkers of his ilk.
Oldplayer
You’re right: California will be the new Venezuela.
The situation could be turned around easily; for much less than is being spent on the “high speed rail” fiasco,
desalinization plants could be built, a couple of thorium reactors constructed, taxes lowered to attract business (California is now ranked LAST among the states in attractiveness to new business), etc.
But it won’t happen. Only liberal doctrines could destroy a place as beautiful as California. And guess what?
KY Jelly! Yep! That’s the cause of the financial troubles in Californificatia. If they would quit spending such large amounts of welfare money for KY jelly they could “smooth over” the roads. Excuse the pun.
I personally think that they should inject the jelly in bore-holes all along the state borders connecting to the main continent and hopefully the whole damn state will “slip” and “slide” into the “hole” in the ocean.
I lived in CA for 10 years. I am glad I got out. California is way overrated although this is from someone who grew up in the NE Corridor who enjoys bad weather. The only thing I miss about being on the Left Coast was the access to NV, AZ and Utah.
California has become Brazil. A multiethnic/racial mess with a white overclass lording over them.
Where does all the money go?
After years of drought, California has not built a single new reservoir. Instead, scarce fresh aqueduct water is still being diverted to sea. Thousands of rural central California homes, in Dust Bowl fashion, have been abandoned due to a sinking aquifer and dry wells.
This is squarely on Governor Moonbeam and the state government.
One in three American welfare recipients resides in California. Almost a quarter of the state population lives below or near the poverty line. Yet the state's gas and electricity prices are among the nation's highest.
One of the richest most beautiful states in The Union and they - state government - are driving it into bankruptcy.
One in four state residents was not born in the U.S. Current state-funded pension programs are not sustainable.
When California comes to the feds and asks for a bailout, we should say NO, HELL NO!
WHAT?!
That was so outrageous I had to look it up... and you’re correct... The fines were increased in 2012 ,, public outcry demanded moderation in the enforcement but I don’t know if that occurred...
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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to do away with old rules that prohibited football games and Frisbee flying on county beaches.
Previous restrictions related to beach sports — which included a prohibition on playing football on the sand — were loosened last week to allow football, Frisbee, sailboarding, kiteboarding and paddleboarding.
According to Santos Kreimann, director of the county Department of Beaches and Harbors, erroneous reports last week that anyone tossing a football or a Frisbee could be fined $1,000 incited public outcry.
“It went viral within minutes,” said Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. He said his office was inundated with complaints from as far away as London.
Though the board already approved the updated policies, Supervisors Don Knabe and Michael Antonovich wanted Kreimann at today’s meeting to publicly clarify the rules,
Knabe went one step further, asking staffers to rewrite the ordinance to clearly state that football, Frisbee and similar sports are OK, unless the safety of other beachgoers is in danger or a lifeguard demands the activity stop.
“While I appreciate the clarification, I’m concerned that misunderstandings will continue,” Knabe said. “Given the fact that no tickets have been issued in 40 years … allowing such activity should be the rule rather than the exception.”
Knabe said he discussed the changes with lifeguards and they agreed that an updated ordinance was in order.
It was unclear how long it would take for county lawyers to make the changes, which would then be codified by a vote of the board.
Today’s vote in support of the rule change was unanimous.
I don't even want to visit, all those brush fires, landslides and earthquakes are enough for me to not want to go, Besides I couldn't live with those morons
Leftism run amok. I was born in CA and lived there for more than 40 years. I’ve been gone for a while. I looked it up.
My home has gone insane(er).
Thanks for the update, your info is more current than mine.
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