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In truth, California is a lot less poor than the statistics show.

There are a lot of people in California living on multiple false identitys and each false identity is living on multiple forms of government welfare.

This is essentially government sanctioned welfare fraud because California politicians are fully aware of the rampant fraud the social welfare system.

California's political class enables the fraud by making sure just about anyone who files for any of California's myriad of generous welfare programs automatically qualifies and gets enrolled. Once enrolled, these same politicians and bureaucrats block any and all auditing or investigation of recipients. The legislature has went so far as to prohibit finger printing of recipients to prevent the discovery of people receiving fraudulent benefits, especially receipt of benefits under multiple false identities

They also work under the table, mostly for cash, but often on normal jobs - also under fake identity fraud using stolen social security numbers

If you go to Hispanic dominated places like the Pico Rivera Walmart on EBT day, you will find long lines of non English speaking illegal aliens backed up 20 deep on each cash register, all paying with California's distinctive EBT card.

All are well dressed and driving the nice late model cars parked in the parking lots. None even remotely look like they have missed a meal in their lives.

After check out, they visit the WalMart remittance desk and send their weekly $250 payment to family in Mexico or other points South of the Border.

This is the illegal underground economy - enabled by California politicians and paid fir by the gullible voters and hard pressed working stiffs in California at the state level and the other 49 states at the Federal Level

Because when people bend or ignore the laws of economics, math, nature, or whatever laws of the physical universe, it eventually will come back to kick them in the a$$ with a vengeance. Hard facts and common sense have be tossed to wind in favor of political correctness by the jacka$$es that control these states.

What Kalifornica and other red states (to a lesser extent) are doing is setting themselves up for a royal a$$ whooping. It’s like giving them enough rope and watching them hang themselves.

I pray for the people (who disagree with their state laws and political representatives) who can’t escape. They will become collateral damage when the SHTF bigtime. My advice is to cover your a$$ and get the hell out of there before it’s too late. The facts seem to indicate this happening in these state but they won’t admit it.

Ca parallels to Venezuela aplenty. Both have tyrannical leaders— Moonbeam is Maduro light. The voting is corrupt, the government welfare to the sheeples are enormous. The price of goods and services are sky high. Venezuela takes over many private companies and Ca over regulates and taxes them in control. There are multiple poor, homeless and shanty living spaces. The situation is far worse in Venezuela but if Ca. was a nation rather than a state it would be just like a lil sister of Venz.

When you replace the more affluent California families--the high achievers in the material quests--with folks who did not achieve at a comparable pace in their own native lands; you have to expect a corresponding decline in average levels of achievement. The result is totally predictable to anyone not hopelessly indoctrinated in egalitarian Leftist social theory.

An American Immigration Policy;

Greatest Mischief.

. One-in-five Californians live in poverty
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No matter how much income equality there may be, there will always be a bottom fifth of society. Always. So we (THEY) move up the asset-held level to whatever that bottom fifth's assets happen to be, creating a new 'poverty line,' which doesn't ease poverty but merely redefines it.

The only way to eliminate poverty is what communism advocates, but does not attain, by keeping everyone at the same asset level. The problem with that is it destroys the incentive to perform, and the free-riders will dominate until no one has anything. That's just human nature.

Rather than deny human nature, Marxists opt to change the nature of humans, achieving Utopia. That's where Soviet Man comes in. He's had his hard drive reformatted and loaded with Utopian software. Except the Soviets had sixty years of indoctrination without achieving Soviet Man.

They would have been better advised to use a little ju-jitsu and use man's desire to get stuff (Greed is Good or at least can be harnessed.) to let him make money and take a little of it for governance. But of course, that is capitalism, which didn't fit Marx's narrative. Why we teach his idiocy in college illustrates the desire for Utopia by those to whom history is a blank slate and their ever-recycled conceit, "This time it's different

“This begs the question: how did the Golden State become America’s poverty capital?”

It does not “beg the question”. To beg the question is a classic logical fallacy, meaning to assume an answer to a question and to reason from that unproven answer.

What the author means is that it brings up the question. Too many people think that using the phrase “beg the question” sounds all intellectual.

“The California Paradox: if Immigration Creates Wealth, Why is California Poor?”

Putting aside the question of “Is there really such a paradox, or is someone pushing some agenda with that title?”...

...I have a question: “If these immigrants are supposed to be so great for the U.S. economy, then why are their home countries such $hitholes?”