Posted on 05/20/2024 8:47:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to Kenneth Schrupp at The Center Square, a new analysis from the U.S. News and World Report agency found that California ranked “dead last” among the 50 states when it comes time to “opportunity.” In other news water is still wet.
What could have possibly indicated that California wasn’t the friendliest location for anyone wanting to build a life of prosperity and freedom?
Was it the state’s nearly seventy-billion-dollar deficit?
Was it the mass exodus that has seen hundreds of thousands of people flee the state for friendlier locales, a trend which has resulted in a net negative for legal population and hit the tax-happy state where it hurts, i.e. fleeing revenues?
Was it the flight of more than 350 big businesses, a handful of which were Fortune 1,000 companies like Tesla, HP Enterprise, and Oracle? From Ben Cousins at LinkedIn News:
While major corporations leaving California get much of the attention, companies of all sizes are leaving the Golden State. A new report from Stanford’s Hoover Institution found that businesses headquartered in California left the state in 2021 at double the rate compared to 2020 and 2019. California has lost 11 Fortune 1,000 companies in the past three years, including Tesla, Oracle and HP Enterprise, while smaller companies, too, have left in search of greener pastures. The researchers blame high corporate income taxes and stringent business regulation for the exodus.
Was it the influx of millions of third world migrants who came for welfare?
Was it the news that the government would be handing out $1,200 per month to transvestites/transsexuals simply because of their mental illness? (
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“Oh I hope Gavin runs! CNN said he’s wonderful and would be a great president! And he’s so pretty!”
I’ve heard this and not kidding.
The Golden Age of California is gone! It didn’t take long either!
And Newsom struts around like a peacock. Worst Gov in CA history.
As the leftists who invaded California leave, the state becomes more republican as the native republican californians gain power again, slowly but surely, though the media is afraid to admit this so they just reluctantly claim that CA citizens are “registering” republican instead of admitting the leftist parasites are going back to their home states:
https://www.kcra.com/article/republican-registered-voters-increase-california/46690647
RE: As the leftists who invaded California leave, the state becomes more republican
Many businesses have left California and so have over a million people the past decade. Are you sure most of these out-migrants are leftists and not Republicans?
bttt
Keep voting Democrat.
At least the weather is good up here
RE: At least the weather is good up here
That’s the MAIN advantage of these two liberal states — California and Hawaii. God has blessed them with great weather, some of the best in the world.
Which just shows that like Adam and Eve, people can screw up what amounts to something like the Garden of Eden.
I got out right after Pete Wilson left office. It was the golden age then. But the writing on the wall was obvious. Such a shame. A beautiful state and where my dead broke immigrant (legal) ancestors escaped commies and socialists and made their new lives and prosperity.
It all started in 1997 when the election of Congressmen Bob Dornan was stolen and nothing was done about. California has since been exporting its stolen election expertise nationwide
Interesting to see how one family can destroy a state. Then again, one man destroyed America in less than four years.
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