Posted on 01/16/2011 12:59:30 PM PST by La Lydia
The new year 2011 and lack of confidence in the tax policies of incoming governor Jerry Brown brings devastating news to Southern California. The progressive tax-and-spend policies of Democrat-run California government have chased another lucrative business out of the state. The open-borders, do-nothing immigration policy of the Obama administration claims the runner-up prize for this economic blow to an already-reeling economy in San Diego. The major cruise lines have just announced they are leaving San Diego, California to make NEW home ports in Texas, Florida and Australia. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Texas and Florida don’t have state income taxes and California has the highest state income tax in the country? I’m also sure new governor Jerry Brown’s announcement that a $50 billion tax increase should be approved by voters this spring is also helpful as businesses make their decisions about whether to stay in “the Golden State.”
Finally, who can blame tourists for being horrified by the crimes along the “Mexican Riviera?”
These cruise lines will NEVER come back after making this decision. Why not just give in to the Reconquista movement and give Southern California over to the Mexican drug cartels and quit pretending like we are a sovereign nation?
I think it is HIGH TIME that the cruise companies cut Mexico’s tourism off however it can. The despicable media “cover-ups” of the carnage occurring on a daily basis in Mexico and the dangers to tourists have gone on long enough. Cut off the tourism bucks. Do not enable this farce of a Mexican government any longer. Make them handle their drug cartels, or let them devolve into chaos. Stay the hell out of Mexico. Denounce the corrupt Mexican president who had the nerve to lecture the American people about illegal immigration in our Congress chambers. Let him solve his own problems without our tax and tourism dollars. Check out the graphic pictures and story from the “truth-telling” website, Blog del Narco linked below.
After all, a vacation in Acapulco — what can go wrong???
San Diego spent a bunch of money making the
port facilities more desirable for the cruise ships.
More money down a rat hole as a mobile
business leaves for more suitable arrangements.
Until November 2nd California thought that all they had to do was to go to Washington DC and their fellow Democrat Socialists would send them money.
No more Senor Brown.
The GOP now controls the purse strings and El Presidente Obama is curtailed.
San Diego: “We don’t have cruise ships anymore, but we have low-riders cruising the streets!”
Losing a cruise ship is a big economic hit for a city.
Here are some approximate numbers:
A cruise ship carrying 2500 passengers will load 130,000 people during the year. Passengers typically spend 3 days in the departure port before or after the cruise and spend $300 in the departure port city. That is $39 million per year.
Additionally, the cruise ship pays port fees to dock the ship and without that revenue, the city needs to maintain the docks from the property taxes.
So if California is losing 4 cruise ships that will cost the State more than $150 million per year.
This is what happens when the Socialist Democrats from the State of California do nothing to guard the borders and allow the drug runners free rein in Mexico and California.
I should also add that a cruise ship will buy literally tons of food and other supplies each week. California will lose that business as well.
It’s not just the illegals. The high cost of living, the draconian business environment, the rising crime, and the poor public institutions are also driving people out. Of course, the illegals are part of those problems, as well.
From another site—
At its peak, in 2008, the Port of San Diego saw 255 ships dock at the Embarcadero, but that number is expected to fall to 103 this year. By 2013, the number of cruise ship calls could be as few as 76.
BYE, BYE California
“But, but...undocumented immigrants are a net plus to our economy!”
-Ima Libidiot
I hear it is going to be renamed, "Kangaroo of the Seas"
California used to have one of the top ranking k-12 public schools. Now it’s in the basement. It used to be the place everyone wanted to visit or move to.
From another report: “The port estimates that local terminals in 2011 will see 103 cruise ships carrying 250,000 passengers. That’s down from a peak of 255 vessels with more than 920,000 passengers in 2008.”
come to florida,we appreciate the business and you are way less likely to get mugged in a carry state.
I don’t know the full story behind all this but I can tell you that my wife and I get a lot of brochures from cruise lines and you can get a Mexico cruise for next to nothing. That certainly is an indicator that they’re having a hard time filling their ships for the Mexican Riviera.
We cruised on Mariner of the Seas out of Port Canaveral, FL, on its last cruise before its relocation cruise around South America to San Diego. These cruise lines don’t do an expensive relocation like this without big economic justification.
“... you will be responsible for bailing out California ...”
If the Pub controlled House does not vote for a bailout, CA will get nothing from the Feds.
NO BAILOUTS FOR FAILED STATES. PERIOD.
I’d go to Cancun before I’d go to Jamaica. I’ve been to both.
This story is incomplete. Carnival Lines is replacing its current Mexican Riviera cruise ships with battleships being brought out of mothballs ...
We probably come into direct contact with at least 18 employees on land before we ever get on the ship....and tha number is just who WE come in contact with, it's certainly not all of the employees...there are DOZENS and dozens of people working to get the passengers on board.
AMEN!! I will NEVER get off the ship in Jamiaca anymore....Cancun has been nice all of the times I’ve been there.....of course ONLY in the Hotel Zone.
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