Posted on 11/06/2010 11:36:00 AM PDT by Starman417
Since I live in the Socialist State of Kalifornia I figured I would put up a post on the complete and utter demise of this State after the last election. Couple figures first:
• Some 2.3 million Californians are without jobs, for a 12.4% unemployment rate — one of the highest in the country.• From 2001 to 2010, factory jobs plummeted from 1.87 million to 1.23 million — a loss of 34% of the state's industrial base. Ask any company, and it'll tell you the same thing: It's now almost impossible to build a big factory in California.
• With just 12% of the U.S. population, California has almost a third of the nation's welfare recipients. Some joke the state motto should be changed from "The Golden State" to "The Welfare State." Meanwhile, 15.3% of all Californians live in poverty.
• The state budget gap for 2009-10 was $45.5 billion, or 53% of total state spending — the largest in any state's history. • The state's sales tax is the nation's highest, and its income tax the third-highest, the BusinessInsider Web site recently noted. Meanwhile, the Tax Foundation's "State Business Tax Climate Index" ranks California 48th.
• In a ranking by corporate relocation expert Ronald Pollina of the 50 states based on 31 factors for job creation, California finished dead last.
And what did the voters of his State decide? Not only did they elect a has-been liar named Jerry Brown but they also passed a Proposition that would require only a simple majority in Congress to pass a budget. Prior to this it was 2/3rd's which gave Republicans, who are always the minority in this Socialist State, some leverage to get some of the worst tax hikes and bad stuff out of the budget.
Not anymore.
So now expect budget busting numbers to come out of our State Legislature. But wait....wonder of wonders, Californians in the same election approved Proposition 26 which makes it harder to raise taxes. But does anyone really believe a super liberal Legislature is going to stop spending on all their Utopian idiocy?
Ain't happening jack.
For one, knowing this State, any intelligent Proposition will go to court and a activist judge will throw it out:
Shaun Bowler, a political scientist at University of California, Riverside, said odd voting patterns often spark lawsuits, and referenda have been thrown out as a consequence."Prop 26 will end up in court," predicted Bowler, who said it is poorly worded and fails to clearly define "fee."
"You can always try to litigate [ballot measures] out of being implemented," he added. "That's likely going to happen here."
And even if 26 sticks around you can expect the Legislature to spend and borrow, spend and borrow....and then all you good people in less retarded States will be sending money to bail this State out.
This place is a mess and the businesses can see it:
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(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Wouldn’t states like Nevada and Arizona benefit from a California exodus? They can still be close to that market, yet beyond its legal traps and welfare mentality.
I hope and pray that the new Congress has the ‘cojones’ not to bail out California when it comes begging.
yep
They don't care about no steenkin country..
Easy solution: Nuke Los Angeles.
Just kidding.
California has been the home for one sort of bubble after another so long they can't even imagine another one not coming along. They seem to be counting on the "green energy" bubble to bail them out because they didn't notice that it's already been flushed down the toilet.
The sad fact is, California is going to have to go bankrupt and then work their own way out of it. It's a shame it'll hurt so many good people who have been sentenced to having no way to flee by the housing crisis and unemployment. Shoot, they'll probably start selling portions of the state to other countries as a way to raise cash and get back at the rest of us. You know, France gets San Francisco, China buys the valley and runs everyone off to grow crops after building several immense desalinization plants. That sort of thing and all done with labor from the country they sell to.
Regards
How long will it be before the states that have been (more) fiscally responsible refuse to carry along deadbeat states like CA, MI and most of the Northeast?
But, but, Boxer will save us, she said so, remember?
BLAH!
Wow. Just wow.
The entire state of California will look like Detroit by 2012. Of the 37 million residents, at least 20 million are brain-fried masochists.
One would think. One of the big things in Nevada is that it has zero warehousing tax. That is why there are big warehouse centers like wal-mart and amazon.com
I do not know why there isn’t more manufacturing here though. The business climate has eroded because of californians trying to turn Nevada into mini-me.
One problem is there are only two population centers in a very large geographical area. The area in the immediate vicinity of Reno doesn’t have a lot of room to expand in that way, though areas further east like Fernley and Fallon have an infinite amount of room to expand, though then you run into problems like water, etc.
With the outgoing Congress, I think your statement would be correct. The chances of the new Congress taking over in January voting money to bail out the fruitloops in California are slim and none.
A relative had a similar California experience. His company purchased a Stocton site for a new California plant to be closer to their west coast industrial customers. Six months and over a half-million dollars of legal, environmental consulting and site analysis fees later, they still had not received final approval from the state and local authorities to go forward. The company halted proceedings for permits, put the property up for sale, and two weeks later broke ground on the new plant - in Arkansas.
Any business owner siting a manufacturing facility in California these days has to be certifiably insane.
In another Calif act of idiocy the city of Santa Monica (west of LA) passed a 1/2 cent sales tax to bring it to 10-1/2cents. This will thoroughly screw our auto dealerships — buyers can just go 1-5 miles in most every direction for purchases — Not to mention other retail.
They live in such comfort and accommodation that forget it is not the natural state of man. Wealth and prosperity don't just “happen”, they have been created through hard work and correct governmental philosophy.
When the house finally falls usually what ensures is a temper tantrum, because they have always felt entitled to plenty, and they don't understand why they lose it.
Proposition 25 giving the Democrats what they wanted: a simple majority vote on the budget, is a strategic error on their part. Now they won’t be able to blame the Republicans for ‘obstructing’ their budget fantasies and the fiscally conservative California voter will soon face the reality that to get the budget under control will require Republican majorities. I know it seems a defeat of sorts, but it does present opportunities in the future if it’s played right.
In Fallon and Fernley you also run into all those underground nuclear test sites from the 1950’s and 1960’s. Not really prime real estate there.
I think it was because of illegals,liberals and those that do not wish to work. The mentality that government will take care of us. This mentality has been bred into a generation now and we are paying for it. America must stay a Republic and live by the Constitution if we wish to survive with a lifestyle we have had and we cant solve other nations problems now if we wish to solve our own.
Latinos voted for Brown 2 to 1.
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