California is hopeless.
Citizens too dumb to figure out that massive spending is their problem. What can you do but shake your head and leave.
NOTE THIS STATISTIC FOLKS :
In 2000, according to the state’s Department of Finance, about 150,000 people moved into California. But in the years that followed the in-migration slowed, and in 2005 it reversed, when a net 52,000 people moved out. In 2008, the outflow topped 135,000 people.
Consequently, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming all have unemployment rates around 5% at a time when California is suffering an unemployment rate of 9%. Californians are moving east and creating jobs in their new home states.
I’M NOT SURE HOW THIS CAN BE REVERSED BECAUSE CALIFORNIANS CONTINUE TO VOTE IN THE SAME PEOPLE WHO CAUSED THIS PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE. Taxes remain high, and lawmakers employ all the tricks in the book to produce “balanced” budgets from shifting expenses around to borrowing ever larger sums of money. NOT LOOKING GOOD AT ALL.
Just keep them out of here.
Californians come in and start turning this state into another California. Stay there.
While traveling on Hwy 395 recently, I couldn’t help but notice all the stores, gas stations, and a shopping plaza that were boarded up.
Our buddy had a business in the state for several years. Due to high taxes, he shut his operation down several years ago.
These are perfect examples of the natural progression (or should I say regression) of Socialism/Communism.
I have a letter written by a grgruncle in 1850, while in California gold mining after a long trip from Texas. The conditions were terrible, the work unforgiving. I’m sure they’d be heartbroken over the mess we’ve made of California.
I just came back from a 3 week visit to California. I was there with my family to investigate if we should move there (most of my family is in Northern California).
As much as we loved the scenery (it is truly gorgeous) and the Wine Country (if I had to, I would live in Napa or Sonoma), we figured out plenty quick that two things basically killed our plans
1. Hyper liberal atmosphere. While my family over there continues to insist that there are “pockets of conservatism”, I don’t want to live in a ghetto inside walled compounds.
2. High taxes. Both my wife and I are still producing income (and will do so for decades to come). The highly confiscatory tax rates will basically put us behind where we have been for 10 years in Texas
So we came to a conclusion. We will take frequent vacations to California (as many as four a year) and it will still be cheaper and happier than living in California.
God Bless and Help California. They are in a world of trouble.
California. The New Michigan.
The Legislature is trying all kinds of tricks to raise money without calling them tax increases (which would require a 2/3 approval). I hope the people moving out aren’t liberals who will take their politics with them to adjoining conservative states like the people from Taxachusetts have done.
The problem though is the idiots leave KaliFornication and then vote for the same liberal dumbasses that destroyed that state in thier new location.
If the politicos in Washington were not such arrogant, condescending assholes, they could look at California as a projector of where the US is heading.
But, “they know best.” So we’re stuck.
Isn’t Kalifornia a microcosm of what the US has become — taxes, labor unions and government interference in our daily lives?
California used to be the place you went to to get away from excessive laws and taxes. Massive migration has changed all that. It’s hard to find people in California that were born in California. I’m going to hang in there with hope that all the foreigners leave. (My family has been here since 1780)
That’s ok.
We’ll just open more chicken farms here in Washington.
The Mexicans are looting California from their perches in government in Sacramento.
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.
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.
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...