Posted on 10/20/2017 4:15:14 PM PDT by Twotone
It’s not easy watching California self-destruct. After all, my four sons are 6th generation Californians. One relative of ours journeyed here prior to the Gold Rush when the state population was just a handful of people. Family lore has it he was a gunslinger who, victorious in a gun duel, headed to California to avoid the law. He ended up ranching on what is now known as Mammoth Mountain. Other family members took part in the gold rush and one ended up discovering gold in 1895 in the Mojave Desert. My grandparents arrived in Kern County in the 1930s and worked as teachers educating the children of oil workers shortly after the discovery of oil in that region.
Proud of my heritage, I had this urge to run for the state legislature, so I did and I won. I was hoping I could do something in Sacramento to slow the decline of the Golden State. But it was not to be. I quickly discovered that the legislature was so dominated by far left ideologues, there was nothing that could be done to reverse course. My Democrat colleagues were not concerned one bit about how their policies were destroying the economic golden goose that made California so famous worldwide. Indeed, they actually believe their big government and nanny state policies have made California the model of how progressives can succeed in governing. Seriously.
It is not hard to see what is happening in California.
The 1940 Texas population according to the US Census was 6,414,824. The 1940 California population according to US Census was 6,907,387.
The estimated 2016 Texas population was 28,240,245. The estimated 2016 California was 39,309,017.
Do you guys see a pattern here? What has happened is not because old people are taking advantage of young people. And, the home prices in California are not obscene.
What is happening in California is that smart rich people young and old are visiting California from all over the United States and all over the world. When they see the perpetual blue skies and feel the great weather, they make a decision to invest in a home here. Someday in the future, there will be 60 million people in California.
I’m not slick; if I was I would have kept the 2600sf home that I bought in 1970 in Westminster for 42K. Instead, I sold it 2 years later for 62K and moved out of state. The slick guys are the ones that kept their homes in OC…
It is not hard to see what is happening in California.
The 1940 Texas population according to the US Census was 6,414,824. The 1940 California population according to US Census was 6,907,387.
The estimated 2016 Texas population was 28,240,245. The estimated 2016 California was 39,309,017.
Do you guys see a pattern here? What has happened is not because old people are taking advantage of young people. And, the home prices in California are not obscene.
What is happening in California is that smart rich people young and old are visiting California from all over the United States and all over the world. When they see the perpetual blue skies and feel the great weather, they make a decision to invest in a home here. Someday in the future, there will be 60 million people in California.
I’m not slick; if I was I would have kept the 2600sf home that I bought in 1970 in Westminster for 42K. Instead, I sold it 2 years later for 62K and moved out of state. The slick guys are the ones that kept their homes in OC…
Isn't that what Jerry Brown said? ☺
Isn't that what Jerry Brown said? ☺
And you seem to be under the impression more people equate to success. Where did you get that?
California isn’t the only pleasant Mediterranean climate in the world, but it’s been economically dynamic due to a business-positive and freedom-oriented government. That’s no longer the case and hasn’t been for going on at least two decades. So, California is going to find that it’s not quite the very special place it has been in modern history, and that they have competition. They’re just about finished killing the goose that laid the Golden State. More’s the pity, I’d love to have known it before the nutballs took over.
It slides into the sea because of an earthquake, but (spoiler alert) gold is discovered in the remaining part of the state and it begins all over again.
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