In two supermarkets 50 miles apart, I was the only one in line who did not pay with a social-service plastic card (gone are the days when “food stamps” were embarrassing bulky coupons). But I did not see any relationship between the use of the card and poverty as we once knew it: The electrical appurtenances owned by the user and the car into which the groceries were loaded were indistinguishable from those of the upper middle class.
California is doomed: Thread #9872
I am glad you posted this. I heard his interview on John and Ken.
California is the garbage collection of the west. Nothing left here but crap.
>> an elite environmental ethos that restricts commerce and productivity without curbing consumption
LOL! I never thought about it that way but VDH is exactly right. For all their enviro-zeal, big-city Californians are among the most materialistic folks I have ever known. They buy (and eventually discard) more “stuff” than people just about anywhere else.
Have you read VDH’s 2004 book entitled “Mexifornia”?
Quite interesting.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2643152/posts
and:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2644244/posts
Also - listen to Victor Davis Hanson interview done today on the John and Ken show - for much more on the topic of much of California turning into a third-world dump.
I am so glad that I got out while the getting was good.
There is really not a time bomb ticking with this invasion as long as socialists run California (into a third world utopia just like home) and American-Americans do not have the power to influence anything inside the boundries of socialism and multicultural foreign ghetto cultures.
The wealthy limo liberals who created the mess will be in walled off heavily guarded communities on the coast like the wealthy live in Mexico. They will get their health care and educations over the border. Everyone will get what they want and those who don’t want to live in a foreign ghetto will move. California has tipped.
Mr. Hanson's observations are accurate and repeatable.
One anecdote: Of all the incorporated municipalities in southeastern Fresno County, the one town with the huevos to proclaim "Merry Christmas" on the festive municipal banners gracing its light poles is Parlier.
It's obvious, but unsaid in the posted article, that the major cause of all the ills Hansen observes is the failure of federal law enforcement against illegal immigration.
But many here insist there is no segregation outside the South...shucks...Vic, you done gone and ruined it for me.
Sad California...you were my dream as a lad in Leave it to Beaver land....all the cool people, blonde girls, surfing, scenery, San Fran, mountians, Death Valley Days...ya'll had it all.....I am truly sorry
But don't fret...they are ruining here too as fast as they can...turning little minds into mush with the same guilt that paved the way to kill your once grand way of life.
BUMP BACK TO THE TOP FOR THIS IMPORTANT ESSAY.
California is probably a harbinger of what’s coming to the rest of this nation.
Hanson’s piece begs a most important question: DOES ANYONE IN A POSITION OF AUTHORITY GIVE A DAMN??
BUMP BACK TO THE TOP FOR THIS IMPORTANT ESSAY.
California is probably a harbinger of what’s coming to the rest of this nation.
Hanson’s piece begs a most important question: DOES ANYONE IN A POSITION OF AUTHORITY GIVE A DAMN??
BUMP BACK TO THE TOP FOR THIS IMPORTANT ESSAY.
California is probably a harbinger of what’s coming to the rest of this nation.
Hanson’s piece begs a most important question: DOES ANYONE IN A POSITION OF AUTHORITY GIVE A DAMN??