Immigration doesn’t create wealth, but California is poor because the Marxist rulership of Delusional Lying Left creates POVERTY.
It’s South America. This is exactly the wealth gap and crazy social unrest they create there. Socialism.
Illegal aliens are bleeding US dry.
WE are paying the true cost of some companies “cheap labor” in both financial and human terms.
Taxpayers at every level are paying to support illegal aliens and they are sending home the proceeds from their illegal employment.
Some people are paying with their lives.
The premise is flawed.
Illegal immigration creates power.
Power accrues from counting illegal nonexistent votes.
“California used to be home to Americas largest and most affluent middle class.”
Stopped reading right there.
CA is STILL home to America’s largest and most affluent middle class.
AND homeless and poor.
Once you get out of the bottom 30%, you find a home owner with a job and two cars in the driveway.
Don’t be misled by somebody with an agenda, whatever it may be.
There is no paradox here at all. This is the natural state when socialism has taken over. The end goal of socialism/communism is for a small affluent class to live in luxury while the rest of the population barely scrapes by. Unless CA can dislodge the current socialist government, expect the gap between rich and poor to keep growing, and the middle class to keep shrinking.
“This begs the question: how did the Golden State become Americas poverty capital?”
Answer: Socialism! Works every time and any place it’s tried!
Next question?
There are videos on youtube of people driving down LA streets and filming miles and miles of tent cities.
Immigration creates loyal voters.
Immigration creates smug, virtue signaling liberals.
Immigration without assimilation, if scaled up is an invasion and destroys the country as much as an army could.
California is unrecognizable from my youth.
And as a corollary to that, why is the homeless population in CA growing by leaps and bounds?
Its not a paradox
Its a lie.
Again, as always with the lefts immigration deceptions, include the word ILLEGAL.
Illegal aliens create wealth and a lifetime office for crooked politicians.
The new tax law is going to gut California. Right now California is sort of doing ok. They have a debt. But that debt is going to go through the roof, during the next recession. And it will go down hill fast, even though they have the ports, the movie business agriculture and silicon valley.
To answer the title Because Marxists (like Muslims) consider lying a perfectly acceptable way of getting their way.
damnocrats
Every illegal and their illegal kin, who settle in California bring zero skill and language abilities/sets to make a living in this high tech world of Capitalism.
So, they go on welfare and suck up $’s that used to go into roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
Public school standards are lowered to serve as free day care with free lunches and sometimes dinner for their hordes of children.
Then, they flood our universities to study social welfare/warfare courses that bring zero value to our state.
Their degrees become IUD’s, Instant Unemployment Degrees. Then they get jobs with the Feds/State/Counties/cities to spread their miserable outlook on life.
Drugged out America bums become the chosen ones versus those with developed skills to work and make a living in California.