Posted on 10/28/2019 1:15:58 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
Shortly thereafter I met Jeff Head and the Klamath river basin debacle, and THAT pretty much seemed to seal California's growing fate
I know shortly thereafter my California almonds got expensive and disappeared.
That's my take on it - the frog in cold/tepid/warm/hot/boiling water thingy.
Moved there in 1967, lived 20 years in the Oceanside area. At first it was GREAT, then Reagan instituted state withholding taxes and in three years my taxes , not my wage, had increased 50%. Then the housing boom started and it seemed that my mtg escrow was going up $50 every six months for taxes, no tax deduction for IRAs, then the auto tags inched up, froze instead of dropping one year, then started inching up again. New restrictive regulations on EVERYTHING, especially gun ownership, every year.
Drip, drip, drip. Then one day in '88 I had enough of the regulatory and taxation walls closing in, bailed that year and never looked back.
The beginning of the end was when Governor Edmund G. “Pat” Brown ended the Bracero program, which allowed the temporary itinerant farm laborers to enter California from Mexico in the planting, growing, and harvesting period and then return home. Although a Federal program, Brown refused state cooperation in late 1964. This sparked the permanent illegal immigration of those workers into California to do the much needed farm work. Brown said that unemployed American youth would step up to fill those positions. They didn’t.
Instead of coming and working for a few months and going home, the erstwhile Braceros and other Mexican poor workers came and stayed and then brought their families who also stayed. . . And then sent for extended families to also come across. . . Who then also sent for extended families to come. Babies born in the USA became anchor babies. . . And those children could vote in elections when the grew up. Many illegals started voting just because they could. Democrat politicians and machine apparatchiks facilitated those “voters” to gain seats they otherwise would not have won in the State Legislature and later in statewide offices. . . Disaster followed.
I lived there in mid 60’s and it was going to hell then. I left, i survived.
Hey that's not fair, his daddy deserves some credit too!
No ID or proof of citizenship required to register to vote were major contributors.
In the ‘50s and ‘60s they were offering a lot of free stuff to entice folks to move there...when your seeds are corrupted by the wish for free stuff, what grow will be corrupted too.
Late 19th century California was New England West — conservative in industry and liberal in political activism around a combination of immigration, labor, agriculture and urban issues and projects.
Early 1900s progressives inherited the Chicago/NY/Boston liberal chic of reform, supported by the middle class that sided with “reformers” and farmers who resented industry (ie railroad and mining) control of Sacramento. The LA Times was THE industry voice throughout that period, making it a bombing target by anarchists in 1910. The SF Examiner, the Hearst flagship, represented the core populist/democrat/progressive voice.
California was, until the last 20 years, a political, economic, and social dichotomy, inheritor and destination for all types, of which, sadly, the leftist have now won.
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