Posted on 10/30/2021 9:42:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
After a long cross-country flight, I made it out of LAX and into an Uber. I wasn’t in the mood to talk, but the driver was. And hearing that I was a journalist, he wanted to tell me a story. I’ve heard a lot of stories over the years, but this may have been the most important one I let go.
He hadn’t always been driving an Uber at 11:30 at night. Not all that long ago he used to have his own business with 7 trucks before he was bankrupted by California’s insane regulations.
I listened, but didn’t pay enough attention. The impact of California’s Democrat legislative supermajority on truckers was just another data point alongside what was happening to freelancers of all kinds and a lot of small businesses. Stories like this were everywhere and there was little interest in them even in conservative circles outside the tarnished golden state.
Back then we still lived in a world where you could walk into a thousand stores with fully stocked shelves. People ordered from Amazon and expected its burgeoning last mile delivery service to make products magically appear overnight. Just in time inventory systems were more efficient and any day now products would be delivered by self-driving cars or aerial drones.
2020 and 2021 have given this Big Tech fantasy world and the rest of us a good kicking.
The massive supply chain mess that’s leaving stores empty and orders unfulfilled doesn’t have a single point of failure, but dozens of them. China’s energy shortages, the overhyped predictive powers of Big Data, the fragility of the global economy, fuel costs, and welfare state worker shortages are all players. But California’s truck bans are a key link in the great failure chain.
(Excerpt) Read more at politichicks.com ...
You get who you voted for and the resultant mess they create.
Sadly we all suffer the consequences...... it is one thing for a state to practice stupidity within their own borders but when that same stupidity impacts everyone it is another matter.
This is not the first example of this from California.....
California owes the rest of the country reparations.
I want my California reparations!
Where’s that Joe Namath commercial?
Biden finally got his boat parade.
Maybe that was the plan all along.
Boat parade jealousy.
When State Legislators and unelected board members seek to collapse Christmas and go off the deep end, all to save Mother Erf.. Bad stuff happens. To heck with ‘for the children’.
No gifts for you, Grandma. They’re offshore. You’ll have to swim out to it and get it yourself this year.
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Well within CA they’re suffering.
Hmmm: The headline was familiar:
I’m curious why Greenfield saw fit to repost his Front Page article on an obscure blog.
I wonder if it has anything to do with censor algorithms...but a look at the home page reveals that he posts MANY articles to Politichicks and there’s a page “dedicated to Daniel Greenfield.” Interesting.
Just saw that scene off the HB pier.
“Well within CA they’re suffering.”
I have a friend in Long Beach. Whenever anything like this comes up he insists he hasn’t noticed a thing, all is well. I call him the Baghdad Bob of Long Beach.
Emperor Jao has an interesting way of “helping” - make it impossible for them to unload and then fine them for being there. Perhaps Newsom should start fining the trucking companies for being bankrupt.
The whole country needs to focus on this and blame Gavin Newsom. That way when the Deep State anoints him president in 2024, everyone will know how to react...
Good one.
Won’t find anything in the news about it there either but just wait.
California is a threat to our national security.
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