My family has been in California for five generations. This post is nonsense. By far most of the water comes from in-State, particularly from the Sierra Nevada and the northern watersheds. The little from the Colorado is scheduled to be returned in the not too distant future.
Try facts for a premise.
The ones who don’t like to work hard saw how nice it was and came in and the freeloaders followed them like the rats they are.
The Marxists were planted in our universities by Roosevelt socialists, from New York. The under-classes were imported for the WWII construction effort. The hordes who came after the War were looking for profitable real estate. The left worked their asses off setting up their dystopia. Many, believing the glowy spin about how Roosevelt saved the country from the Depression had been seriously duped, taking the Marxist ruse of collective charity to heart. They believed their blessings were so great that it was just fine to build institutions to "share the wealth." The takers came later to feed off that excess.
Those who prefer cleanliness and order and work hard to get it are obvious by their surroundings. Those who prefer to be lazy and have ‘things’ handed to them tend to have an environment that matches those characteristics form around them.
That is true regardless of where you go, with a proviso: If hard work consists of foraging in dumps for food, there are plenty of people whose surroundings, though squalid, are hardly a result of their moral choices. As to those down on their fortunes, the condition of their homes reflects as much on the unwillingness of their neighbors to lend a hand as it does the choices of the owner.
If your neighbor has cancer, would you mow their lawn? If he's unemployed, would you pay him instead of a gardener to mow yours so that he could borrow the mower to do his?
I see it everywhere I go.
I see the lack of love of one's neighbor everywhere too.
Try looking in the outskirts of Sao Palo or Mexico City. The poor really do spend a lot of energy just subsisting (I once did).
Thanks, that was a very decent reply and I appreciate it. I also appreciate your point of view too. Since you are on the ground there and I am not. In fact the last time I was physically in California was in the 1970’s.
Most of my information comes from other sources obviously rather than living in the midst of it all.
Keep up the good work.
Good post.