Posted on 12/15/2010 12:31:51 PM PST by ScottinVA
Abandoned farms, Third World living conditions, pervasive public assistance -- welcome to the once-thriving Central Valley.
The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. I wanted to witness, even if superficially, what is happening to a state that has the highest sales and income taxes, the most lavish entitlements, the near-worst public schools (based on federal test scores), and the largest number of illegal aliens in the nation, along with an overregulated private sector, a stagnant and shrinking manufacturing base, and an elite environmental ethos that restricts commerce and productivity without curbing consumption.
During this unscientific experiment, three times a week I rode a bike on a 20-mile trip over various rural roads in southwestern Fresno County. I also drove my car over to the coast to work, on various routes through towns like San Joaquin, Mendota, and Firebaugh. And near my home I have been driving, shopping, and touring by intent the rather segregated and impoverished areas of Caruthers, Fowler, Laton, Orange Cove, Parlier, and Selma. My own farmhouse is now in an area of abject poverty and almost no ethnic diversity; the closest elementary school (my alma mater, two miles away) is 94 percent Hispanic and 1 percent white, and well below federal testing norms in math and English.
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Yep, there’s a major infestation of Marxist cockroaches in California.
Unlike a few others here, I’m not willing to hand over the state to Marxists, socialists and fascists. It’s way beyond the ability for the patriots in CA to take back the state. You need help.
That help needs to come from patriots taking back the federal government - and we will - and sending a division-size force - attroneys, investigators and armed federal agents - into your state to arrest and imprison all the thieving leftists in CA.
It can and will be done. In addition, all these union state leeches can kiss their million dollar pensions goodbye. Find a bridge and a cardboard box and move in.
Hang tight. We’ll be arriving soon.
Yeah, "ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge". One foul, stinking, corrupt Democrat judge... And California just sat there, never appealing, never pressing the issue. Congratulations. It is good to see that Arizona is going pedal to the medal to make sure their version remains intact and enforceable.
And by the way, Bush took office as president in 2001, so who cares what he "endorsed" before that?
I suppose the Dream Act will resolve all these issues.They attach it to everything else of being the final, answer.
I believe I was at Nepenthe around ‘76 or ‘77, “back in the day”. Family owned and very friendly. An in-law lived in a cabin in Big Sur and knew the owners. One of their kids played with our son while we were there.
Part of a five week cross county trip, we drove most of the coastal highway and loved it all, although San Francisco was weird even then.
It was my only trip to California. May return someday to watch my son climbing El Capitan. I don’t travel anywhere anymore that I can’t drive to.
Excellent article. I was about to post it when I saw that you beat me to it.
President Clinton was happy to see wide open borders. So when Bush was elected, the coalition that got Prop. 187 on the ballot approached him, thinking maybe a Republican president would help. What they got was worse than stoney silence: a stern lecture and the horrible revelation that he was going to try to pass an amnesty.
So the entire Federal government has been working against the interests of California and advancing those of Mexican nationals for years. And they’ve got all the power and the guns. Again, anything that could help us is ENTIRELY THEIR PURVIEW.
I honestly don’t know what you people think California did wrong or ought to do now.
To suggest that our debt outweighs the wealth this state will generate next year and in five years and in twenty years, is not just erroneous, it’s absurd.
"So I would suggest to Bay Area scientists that the environment is taking a much harder beating down here in central California than it is in the Delta. Perhaps before we cut off more irrigation water to the west side of the valley, we might invest some green dollars into cleaning up the unsightly and sometimes dangerous garbage that now litters the outskirts of our rural communities."
There is a reason the people in Latin American countries live as they do: it’s how they prefer to exist.
If they wanted to live like we do here, they would convert their countries into something other than arid, sun-baked, Third World poverty pits. But, as one who owns — and lives in — a home in Honduras, I can tell you that there is no great desire among the locals to live any differently than they do now, and have for centuries on end.
They have the resources. They have the talents. They have the energy. They have the intelligence. What they don’t have is the initiative. And wherever they go, they take that same lack of initiative with them.
Including California.
Before anyone screams, “Racist,” remember: I like the people of Latin America. I chose to buy a home and live among them six months a year. It’s a rather pleasant, stress-free lifestyle. And it is not likely to change.
Down there. Or, up here.
Oh they just keep watching Hollywood’s s**t and ALL of TV which supports Obama and what is going on in CA. Fox is no better. As long as they control the media and people do not go Galt on Hollywood and ALL of TV then we will all end up like CA.
Anyone would be insane to buy CA muni bonds. The state is a disaster but America’s future will probably be link CA.
BTTT!
California country mice are still quite conservative. City mice...well, you all know about them.
For God’s sake let us have the freakin’ wall.
We are also YOUR border.
...aka rats.
That's what they'll tell us when they come for a bailout - teir deficit is our deficit, and if they fail we all fail. I don't want to give it to Mexico, but California needs to get over itself and quit thinking they lead this nation and all of us dumb rubes out here in flyover country can't get along without them.
The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. I wanted to witness, even if superficially, what is happening to a state that has the highest sales and income taxes, the most lavish entitlements, the near-worst public schools (based on federal test scores), and the largest number of illegal aliens in the nation, along with an overregulated private sector, a stagnant and shrinking manufacturing base, and an elite environmental ethos that restricts commerce and productivity without curbing consumption... My own farmhouse is now in an area of abject poverty and almost no ethnic diversity; the closest elementary school (my alma mater, two miles away) is 94 percent Hispanic and 1 percent white, and well below federal testing norms in math and English.The better to convince the masses of the global warming hoax and the necessity of taking away what little they hath for their own good. Thanks ScottinVA for the topic and thanks neverdem for the ping.
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