Posted on 09/13/2017 7:26:27 AM PDT by C19fan
One in five Californians lives in poverty, the highest rate in the country, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The “Supplemental Poverty Measure,” factors in cost of living and shows a stubbornly high share of Golden State residents in poverty even as the national rate has dropped slightly.
Under the methodology, an estimated 20.4 percent of Californians lived below the poverty line in a three-year average of 2014, 2015 and 2016. That is virtually unchanged from the 20.6 percent average for 2013, 2014 and 2015, according to Tuesday’s release.
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You just published the Californiacator Dem short and long range plan since Moon Beam’s first term as governor, decades ago.
Step 1. Raise taxes.
Step 2. Drive out more producers/taxpayers
Step 3. Invite more illegals and homeless
Step 4. Complain about poverty rate
Step 5. Repeat steps 1-4
Not long ago,California was still fruitcake land but conservative with Reagan as Governor and if it were a country,its economy was believed to be in the top ten in the world. California dream was part of the the American dream. Those days are gone.
You can google for images of California homeless.
http://tinyurl.com/yahcgyad
There are over 1,000 people living in the Santa Ana river bank. Not much water now but enough to use as a bathroom causing all kinds of disease along with the trash that gets washed out to the sea. I see people living in the post office parking lot near me. The Sepulvada dam park area has dozens if not hundreds living along the creeks that connects to the LA river. I go to the park and see the makeshift camps and I can hear them talking in the brush out of sight.
This is the democrats fault nationwide.
“No mention of the real cause - importing poverty-stricken, low-skilled illegal aliens.”
Yes, the truth of the matter is that absent the heavy influx of illegals from Mexico and all points South, CA’s poverty level would look like most states, probably better.
Our population hasn’t been displaced by illegals, it’s been “supplemented,” and the supplementation has been, for the most part in Southern California.
Take a look:
http://www.us-places.com/California/population-by-County.htm
Five of CA’s 58 counties account for more than 50% of our population, and probably 80%, or more, of our illegals, and all of them are in SoCal. I live in Central Contra Costa County where homes routinely sell for more than $1 million, some, a lot more. No illegals living here, and having lived here for 60 years, I can tell you that the demographics have changed very little.
We actually have a strong Conservative running for Governor, an assemblyman from Huntington Beach named Travis Allen. He is gaining steam (has over 300,000 Facebook followers) and is running on a pro business, anti illegal alien, lower tax platform and is fighting to repeal Jerry Browns gas and car tax increase.
I hope he can at least get passed the primary. Still, knowing this state, I have to believe Gavin Newsome is a shoo in to be next governor.
“Of no concern to the USA....”
I would have to disagree. It hasn’t been all that many years since California was first in the nation in just about any category you’d care to name. You may think, wherever it is that your head hits the pillow every night, that you are immune from what has taken place in CA, but you are sadly mistaken. It amazes me that Texans (and even Cotexans) think that Texas will never fall, when it’s already happening there just as it did in CA. Texas big cities are going to take over the state, as they have here in CA and the “real” Texans won’t have a say any longer. And it’s the same situation in just about any state you’d care to name. You have Harris County with nearly 5 million people, and probably half of them are illegal, then you have BillyJoeBobCooter County with 119 people in it. You tell me just how BillyJoeBobCooter County is going to survive?
That has happened here in CT.
The state is slowly circling the drain.
Middle, upper middle class, and wealthy folks leave the state to get away from the taxes.
Baby boomers about to retire will no longer be tied to their CT jobs so they are free to bail.
Expenses go up (illegals cost $1B a year) while Democratic Mayors and the Governor declare sanctuary for illegal aliens.
Tick tick tick....
CA will eventually be a land of wealthy business owners, wealthy retirees and their low wage Hispanic servants.
CA does not want middle class Americans.
Yes.
I see America — throughout most of its history — as a nation for the middle class. Yeoman farmers at the start, then small business owners. The business of America is business. The American Dream is to own a home and eventually retire with some decent level of savings.
But we are heading for a Medieval world of Lords and Peasants. California seems to be leading the way on this. No room for the middle class — those people think too much.
There was a reason that the missionaries of old were drawn to California.
It needed them!
California needs to be evangelized by Christians who are shaped by God to understand.
If you don’t know God you get all other kind of foolishness. Because you’re trying to do it all by yourself. That makes modern secular liberalism so sad. They aren’t looking to God. They’re looking to a handful of sadly wrong theories. It works well to mean well if you mean it through God. Otherwise you become some insufferable, unloving, and wasteful nanny.
How in tarnation are ya going to elect a conservative when about 3 out of 4 statewide in CA voted for the likes of Hillary Clinton? On top of that, the voting process in CA is gamed and corrupted in favor of the leftist. You cannot trust those controlling the process in CA.
I think even the retirement ideal doesn’t have to be viewed as that. To me, what other people would call “retire” would be “to change careers again.”
I won’t be able to do everything I did as a spring chicken, and I do not need to.
It’ll literally need a movement of God.
Usually, those who come to faith abandon secular liberalism as too simplistic.
How many threads do you destroy per day?
Yes, eventually that could certainly happen but not now.
“The incomes of middle class Americans rose last year to the highest level ever recorded by the Census Bureau, as poverty declined and the scars of the past decade’s Great Recession seemed to finally fade.
Median household income rose to $59,039 in 2016, a 3.2 percent increase from the previous year and the second consecutive year of healthy gains, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. The nation’s poverty rate fell to 12.7 percent, returning nearly to what it was in 2007 before a financial crisis and deep recession walloped workers in ways that were still felt years later.”
2016 Median Household Income in California was $66,637.
Former CA Governor Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave at what Jerry Brown has done, and is doing, to this once great state.
Hmmm.
Santa Clara County leads the Bay Area with 180,000 illegal immigrants, followed by Alameda County with 124,000 and Contra Costa County with 79,000
http://www.mercurynews.com/2011/07/19/study-finds-half-million-illegal-immigrants-in-bay-area/
This article was from 2011, so you can probably add another 45,000 illegalsto Contra Costa County .
Bull s**t. It’s been happening for 40 years. Where ya been?
Btw, where did ya get that data, the government?
Btw, ya say 66k is median income in CA? What’s that after taxes? 36k?
Lemme ask ya Mr. Germanicus, are ya going to buy a home in CA on 35k?
Where’d ya go?
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