Ouch! That's bad. True, but very bad.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Posted on 01/10/2009 8:42:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On Jan. 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall found gold at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, Calif., sparking a mad rush of some 300,000 people desiring to strike it rich. San Francisco grew from a tiny hamlet to a boomtown in no time, and in 1850 California entered the Union as the 31st state.
With this history at their back, state leaders might have understood that people have a propensity to get up and move when a better life is to be had elsewhere. But no. After more than 150 years of being a destination, California is becoming a place entrepreneurs, investment capital and the hardy workers who made it a global leader in agriculture, technological innovation and scientific research are fleeing. This exodus is the marker of something deeper than a national recession. It's a sign that the attempts by state leaders to spend their way back to prosperity are killing California.
While it has the sixth highest tax burden in the nation, according to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, California is facing a breathtaking $40 billion budget deficit this year. This comes on the heels of a decade-long spending spree. Last year the state budget was $131 billion, up from $56 billion in 1998.
Citizens are burdened by all manner of state regulations. To mention just one example, this year a new law enacted by ballot initiative bans cages chicken farmers use on the grounds that it is inhuman to put birds in cages that prevent them from spreading their wings. Complying with the new law will cost farmers hundreds of millions of dollars, which will force many to leave the state. And that will force us to buy our eggs from other states and, possibly, others nations, such as Mexico.
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I've heard it. And they're smug about it, too. The concept of midwestern humility is completely lost on them.
They move to other states and do the same thing, which is why everyone hates it when Californians move in. I hate them, too, and I'm originally from California myself!
Today they are leaving in record numbers and I have always wondered if losing all this talent ever mattered to the powers to be here in California. It doesn't, the politicians here are more concerned with power, and politically correct issues then retaining and keeping the back bone of the State. More and more draconian laws are passed each year that make this group of over taxed, over regulated business owners finally throw in the towel.
There is no doubt that many people leaving California have caused other States to have problems with property values, crime etc, but many States also have the benefit of the most skilled and talented people anyone could ask for. For better or worse many more people will be leaving this once great State.
You made a wise decision. Esp since you live in TX.
But, it’s possible that our gov’t makeup could change. We just voted in a law that outlaws re-districting, which the Crats use to their advantage to keep being re-elected.
Let us hope that it will work as planned, and the liberal lockdown will resolve itself.
How about California, “The new Cleveland.” LMAO (and I live in California)
Wyoming’s unemployment rate is a lot lower than 5%.
Per the December BLS report:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm
Wyoming’s unemployment is about 3.2%.
The Californians do that with our Tex-Mex food. They always say: "It isn't real Mexican food." No kidding! It's TEX-mex!
Now watch what happens in border States.
They are locusts. The same ones who voted for socialism in California are now fleeing.
The locusts destroy one State, then move onto the next and do the same.
That’s because Idaho has been a second-level player in the real estate boom. When I’ve driven through Twin, Boise/Nampa and clear out to Caldwell, I’m blown away by how much residential development was underway. In 2007, I could not believe how much housing you folks had under development in Idaho, and I also could not see how people could afford those homes given the median incomes in the area, especially places like Caldwell and Twin.
Now that the housing market is imploding, the unemployment in the building trades has to be hitting Idaho pretty hard.
In Wyoming, there wasn’t much of a building boom. The state remembers the boom of the last oil spike that ended about 1983 - which created ghost towns in the implosion. So counties and towns were much more circumspect in allowing building to get out of control, because they had seen energy booms before and remembered that they usually come to a sudden end - just as we’re seeing now.
We’ll see the unemployment in WY go up as oil/gas development companies pull back on drilling projects here. The small projects are already being shut in and one energy company (Rock Well, out of Canada) has filed for bankruptcy.
Devin Nunes has some very good proposals, but I am not optimistic that any of them would ever see the light of day in California. Good government is not what California’s legislature is all about. What it’s all about is confiscating money from society’s producers and handing it over to society’s parasites (the Democrat “base”) in exchange for votes.
The one and only weapon that matters is the ability to prevent tax hikes.
Just concentrate on maintaining that.
Starve the beast and let the rest work itself out.
Best mexican food I had was in New Mexico. I was there for 3 days, and I had enchiladas for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I'll bet it's better in Texas...?
;^)
This exodus has been going on for some time now. I find myself thinking if I were to move anywhere else where the weather is so good most of the time, and I don’t have to sweat the bugs and winters of the midwest and east coast or the heat of the desert ( all places I have lived) where would I go. My spouse is a native Californian with his whole family here so here is where we are parked and in a nice neighborhood and a very nice city..ok village...but where we are. I don’t like what is going on in CA and moreover what goes on here tends to move East...everything from fashions to bad morals and taxes. What is the old saying...as California goes so goes the nation...
Not all Californians vote for the same idiots in the state or national elections. The problem with CA is the large pockets of liberals in places like LA, SF etc..those of us in the smaller locations or in the western part of the state are more conservative..we suffer with this and hate it too and many would move if they could.
That and all the perks for illegal or should I say undocumented foreigners....we are sinking under that.
I am not so sure the ones leaving CA are the ones who voted for all the mayhem that goes on here now...I would think,that people like me who vote against this crap, would be the ones leaving in droves. I would if we could.
Hey, the liberals got their cheap gardeners and nannies - and the illusion that they're "oh so cool".
The fact that the place is unlivable never bothers liberals. You're right - pack up and leave.
Ouch! That's bad. True, but very bad.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
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