Posted on 10/30/2024 6:14:36 AM PDT by eyeamok
Since September 2022 – while Newsom had the state on full lockdown – California has lost a net 154,000 jobs in the private sector and gained 361,000 jobs in the public sector, according to California’s non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.
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Expand government, raise taxes, decrease gas supply, kill-off ag, cut water supply
My wife and I just got back from a 4 day visit to San Diego last weekend. We lived there in the 80’s before returning to Texas.
My memory of San Diego ( and Orange County, where we had family) was a clean, well run city with beautiful streets and landscaping, incredible weather and some traffic, but nothing unmanageable. Going back after 20+ years of democrat rule, I am reminded of Rush’s saying: “Liberals destroy everything they touch.”
The streets are crap, the lovely flowers are gone and the traffic is insane, even on the side streets. The cost of everything is at least 25% higher than in Texas. Even the weather didn’t seem as charming.
Add Gruesome Newsom adds on TV and it put me over the top. Other than my adult child living there, there’s no reason to go back.
I just returned from visiting family in Colorado - gas was $2.99/gallon. Here in Communist California it is ≈ $4.69/gallon - may be more now, I have been gone for a week.
Just read an article this morning that Philips is closing its refinery in California.
“California gas prices have been increasing, with the average price as of September 2024 being $4.78, $1.57 more than the national average...As for fuel prices in California, the state has seen a 40% increase over the past year.”
“Closure of the Phillips 66 refinery complex in the Wilmington area next year will likely mean higher gas prices for motorists, analysts say.”
Yet California voters continually vote for more of this.
I can shorten the list to one: Vote Democrat.
I would also add: Flood the state with millions upon millions of dependent, high-fertility, 3rd world illegals who use hospital ERs (for free) for all of their medical needs, no matter how minor - and also get free housing, education, food, drivers’ licenses. etc. The California media constantly hold these people out as “heroes” facing “daily oppression” and “difficult living conditions.”
Blame high gas prices on “oil company gouging” (which doesn’t happen in other states) - driving the oil companies out of California (two refineries are shutting down, the companies say they ‘can’t do business in California’), with prices an average of $1.57/gallon more than the national average. - the governor cheers this on as it furthers his “green energy” and “carbon neutral” schemes.
My own medium-sized California town is chock full of empty businesses.
As always, love my state, hate its government.
California was great when ai grew up there, went to college, and started my first business. That was when it wa spun by republicans. I left right after Gumby Davis got elected and saw the writing on the wall. New, I can’t imagine how any company survives there.
Entropy is easy. Just pass it.
Improvement requires work, very hard work.
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