California’s Ongoing Idiocy Continued Tuesday…Rest Of Country Will Pay

Flopping Aces ^ | 11-06-10 | Curt

[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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[dsrtsage]

“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 know of at least one for sure out near middlegate (its not really known well, but there is a plaque on a mountain top with a sign that prominently sais “No Digging”), but I thought most of that happened further south, closer to vegas.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

One could analyze things at great length is response to your question, but there’s not much to be gained by overthinking it.

In the 60’s and early 70’s San Francisco & Berkeley culture was “quaint” or “cute” in its way... and existed in confined little petri dishes. SF hippies exulted in the city itself (which as you may or may not know is a TINY city of ~~~600K inhabitants that you walk across in a long day) but a mere 45 miles down the peninsula was a gigantic, unfathomably rich and creative and productive computer and chip and hi-tech industry and aerospace web that might have been 5% of US GDP right there. That business/those businesses are still there, but massively reduced.

Over the 40 or years I have lived in CA, about half northern, and about half southern, the left just won out, by relentless, incremental erosion of what was once a rather conservative state EXCEPT FOR SF & Berk. Where there were once hippies, there are now hordes of illegals, one form of uselessness having been replaced by another. (Racist comment alert!!)

But by bit, diversity by diversity, new math textbook by new math textbook, recylcing bin by recycling bin.

[bunster]

On SF: I had the experience of seeing a SF City Council ballot (or was it Supervisors - don’t remember) — but the number of factions both fascinated and disgusted me — the City is Ungovernable in my opinion. Every faction gets a piece of the pie and they DO hand it out for voter support.

the Yes on Prop 19 people said they will bring this back every year until it passes. And during a Presidential election they will probably win. If they’d done it in 08 it would be law with all the youth vote.

But I am most concerned about Prop 13 (70’s Prop tax initiative) — Brown has already said he is going to attack the Commercial property side of it — and if he succeeds in making any inroads to Prop 13 — you know what is next.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Yup, the attack on commercial side of Prop 13 has been hinted at for quite a while; and now is probably too tempting of an idea for the anti-business CA libs to leave alone. They can no longer resist. Their brilliance will be shown in just how artfully they pull yet another pillar of busines viability out from CA business creation.

IMO the real damage to CA will be from prop 23, the (failed) one that wanted to hold AB32 (= LSD-induced global warming insanity) in abeyance until the unemp levels fgto back down to 5.5%. Over and above the 25+% rise in power and fuel costs this is sure to create, this is one absolutely enormous, onerous piece of goofballism.

But not to worry nor to be too picky, CA voted upon itself 2-3-4 weapons of mass economic suicide, and we’ll apparently just have to watch the movie of CA’s destruction. I will be watching it from somewhere else. I felt and feel bad about it, having lived here for 40 years, but CA is cooked and that’s all there is to it. In 6-8 years, this entire state will look like little Tijuana except for armed enclaves.

[Elsiejay]

How many Mexican nationals not legally residing in California are currently employed in California? No one knows, but does this not affect the rate of joblessness among Californians?
I know. To ask the question is to ansswer it.

[Doctor 2Brains]

Well said.

[Doctor 2Brains]

Another good post. I’m just taking note of the good writing here today.

[Soothesayer]

The best thing that can ever happen to California is Al Qaeda nukes their major cities and baths the entire region in deadly radioactivity. Let nothing grow there ever again.

[Soothesayer]

Let Jihadists nuke Los Angeles

Not kidding.