Posted on 01/03/2017 6:04:42 PM PST by 2banana
What makes the law-abiding leave California is not just the sanctimoniousness, the high taxes, or the criminality. It is always the insult added to injury. We suffer not only from the highest basket of income, sales, and gas taxes in the nation, but also from nearly the worst schools and infrastructure. We have the costliest entitlements and the most entitled. We have the largest number of billionaires and the largest number of impoverished, both in real numbers and as a percentage of the state population.
In feral California, we suffer not just from too many and too few applications of the law, but from the unequal enforcement of it. When the state has one-fourth of its population born in another country, dozens of sanctuary cities exempt from federal law, and millions residing here illegally, it makes politicized cost-benefit choices.
From her nest in Rancho Mirage, a desert oasis created by costly water transfers, outgoing senator Barbara Boxer rails about water transfers. When Jerry Brown leaves his governorship, he will not live in Bakersfield but probably in hip Grass Valley. High crime, the flight of small businesses, and water shortages cannot bound the fences of Nancy Pelosi’s Palladian villa or the security barriers and walls of Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley billionaires — who press for more regulation, and for more compassion for the oppressed, but always from a distance and always from the medieval assumption that their money and privilege exempt them from the consequences of their idealism. There is no such thing as an open border for a neighbor of Mr. Zuckerberg or of Ms. Pelosi.
A final window into the California pathology: Most of the most strident Californians who decry Trump’s various proposed walls insist on them for their own residences.
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bkmk for later
he is a great man.
only kindle @ amazon
My Prediction for the new Age of Trump.
1. In the next election the next governor of California will be a Republican —and a woman.
2. New Factories will be built in California to build cars and tractors.
3. California will become a Purple State in 2020. and elect a GOP Senator in 2018.
4. Hollywood will comeback with more tax cuts for film makers.
5. The present Governor will face down Trump—and lose.
6. The high speed train LA to SF will be built as will the LA Las Vegas Train and the SF to Reno bullet train.
my one other brother who lives there won’t thank you but will benefit. i will thank you if that happens. god bless. i should do the same prediction for here in phily. we need to be positive. thx for the response.
He touched in detail on that last sentence (nice phrasing) in his "Mexifornia" book.
Once I figured out that making a sixty mile round trip to a rural DMV could actually save me time, not to mention aggravation, I never went back to a big urban California DMV. The small rural DMVs I went to were all efficient.
The big urban California DMVs were good at only one thing: Instilling a proper contempt for government. Rudest, least efficient employees ever.
I think so too. I'd like to meet him.
retired state employees from Sacramento, liberals fro SF moving out to the mother lode to “get away.”
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