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If you care about California, care about Salinas
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| July 29, 2015
| Joe Mathews
Posted on 08/02/2015 9:22:51 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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If you want to read about real hard times in the Salinas Valley research John Steinbeck. Steinbeck wrote about a time during the Great Depression when there were no EBT cards, no Section 8 housing, no Medi-Cal and no free lunches at the local schools. These were very hard times but Salinas did not have the crime the murder rate and such as it does no. Could it be because of the different ethnic and cultural makeup of that time? Could it be that the Nanny States fosters civil disrespect?
To: artichokegrower
Leave it to Moonbeam and the Marxists. They will take California to the garbage dump in record time.
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posted on
08/02/2015 9:26:23 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: artichokegrower
Could it be because of the different ethnic and cultural makeup of that time? What are you saying? A lot of lutefisk pickling Swedes in Salinas?
Come right out and say it, you Norse-ist.
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posted on
08/02/2015 9:27:08 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: artichokegrower
They also didn’t have a large swath of third World illegal immigrant illiterates as a primary part of their ‘diverse’ ‘community’.
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posted on
08/02/2015 9:30:17 AM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: artichokegrower
Rich in land. Rich in Values. Ripe With Opportunity, The exact same could be said of Argentina, but it has labored under statist, socialist, progressive, crony-capitalist politics and economics for 70 years. Why should Salinas (or California) have a better fate if they follow the same policies?
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posted on
08/02/2015 9:33:36 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: artichokegrower
All that, and ZERO mentions of the word Mexico or Mexican or welfare.
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posted on
08/02/2015 9:36:07 AM PDT
by
gaijin
To: artichokegrower
Rich in land.
Rich in Values.
Ripe With Opportunity.
Crushed by Progressives
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posted on
08/02/2015 9:38:35 AM PDT
by
Paine in the Neck
(Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
To: artichokegrower
I DO care about Salinas. I almost moved there a few years ago. Cost of living is more reasonable than Monterey. Climate is better. Small town feel. What a shame.
'Course this may drive property prices down even further.
Hmmmmmmmm.
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posted on
08/02/2015 9:38:49 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: artichokegrower
The Mexican illegal immigrant brought their dysfunctional culture with them, as they created Mexico Del Norte. In addition by not enforcing our immigration laws I suspect the message is being sent to the effect “our laws are meaningless have at it!”
To: artichokegrower
These cities started as smaller towns and grew to have the problems of urban places, while retaining the weak local governments of small towns. And Californias governing system gives local officials little discretion to shape their communities destinies."Problems of urban places" = Diversity.
"Weak local governments of small towns" = Big bloated unionized, powerful, forceful governments are needed to deal with "diversity".
"governing system gives local officials little discretion to shape their communities destinies" = The community shaped the communities direction just fine until the diverse urban "you didn't build that" population moves in, then you better have a redistributionist apparatus in place or the "victims" will burn it all to the ground.
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posted on
08/02/2015 9:40:00 AM PDT
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: PGR88
Your post reminds me of a comment from a business associate whose company is involved in global maritime shipping. He was referring to Brazil in particular, but it was intended to apply to any Third World dump with a hostile climate for forward-thinking business owners:
"Brazil will forever be a country with a great future."
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posted on
08/02/2015 9:50:59 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
To: artichokegrower
From the article:
"People in Salinas are very good at starting things but finding the public resources to maintain them has been harder." The author of the article needs a little help here. Let me paraphrase that sentence:
"People in Salinas are very good at buying things - but paying for them has been harder."
I'm sure the author believes that it would be more "fair" to increase taxes on Silicon Valley companies in order to buy a golf course for Salinas.
The liberals' chickens are coming home to roost and it will not make for a pleasant world.
To: artichokegrower
i have hauled a lot and i mean tons and tons of produce out of there,i liked the place.
To: Alberta's Child
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posted on
08/02/2015 10:07:38 AM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
To: artichokegrower
It does not take a rocket scientist to know what is wrong with Salinas (God's terra perfection on earth).
Just go there for lunch and you'll see for yourself.
AT LEAST 80% of the population is Hispanic and AT LEAST 1/2 of those are illegal and speak no English.
Every stinkin' on of the radio stations is in Mexican.
All the public shoos speak more Mexican that English.
Coming soon to an America near you.
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posted on
08/02/2015 10:10:14 AM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
To: artichokegrower
No water equates to no farming and the end of salinas:
To: Mariner
With his gubmint housing/anti-discrimination nonsense, Obama and the Dems have to set up a system where the industrious ants can’t avoid paying for the grasshoppers who refuse to lift a finger. If whole counties are being evacuated by Americans, then move the funding to the state level; if Americans flee the whole state (as is happening in CA and NJ), then nationalize the program (like ObamaCare, Section 8, SNAP, etc.). No matter how you cut it, no matter where you flee, you will get the bill for masses of outstretched black & brown palms...
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posted on
08/02/2015 10:36:12 AM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: artichokegrower
SCSC...
The Socialist Communist State of California.
Coming soon to a state near you!
Like the USSR boy, you don’t know how lucky you are...
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posted on
08/02/2015 10:36:30 AM PDT
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: Mariner
(God's terra perfection on earth) ???
Terra and Earth are the same thing.
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posted on
08/02/2015 10:37:50 AM PDT
by
SeeSharp
To: old gringo
My husband and I are rehabbing a feral stray from their shelter. Like a Brittany but smaller. I always wondered what it was like where he came from...
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posted on
08/02/2015 10:51:38 AM PDT
by
MarMema
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