My Great Grandfather came to Ca from Texas in 1908 and pioneered a ranch in the desert where no one else would even try. He ended up working it up to four ranch locations and successfully raised cattle on roughly 800 square miles of grazing rights where no one else could.
Wyatt Earp was even a good friend of Grandad and came by to visit the ranch and drink Granddad’s bootleg whisky quite often. Then many years later the Feds forced him to sell these grazing rights. He then bought a very lucrative commercial location on a major highway.
Our family built businesses and worked this for many years and 5 generations up until in 2000 the state of California had finally sapped every drop of blood we had left and forced me, as the fouth generation, to leave Ca with 3 kids, my Wife, and only the shirt on my back. They had killed our 5 generations of pioneer heritage and completely broke us and our business both financially and spiritually through irrational over regulation.
Am I over the top? Damn right. You would not be if they did this to you? After 5 generations and over a hundred years of paying taxes and collecting revenue for them with 4 generations of callused hands and hard knocks? We were forced to trash our whole history and heritage just to preserve the very dignity of the 5th and 6th generations.
It was a damned crime what they did to us and to thousands of others who trusted in them to have common sense. And it would have been absolute criminal neglect for me to even consider raising anymore generations in Ca. I was forced to start all over from scratch with a wife and three kids living in a car. No... I will never consider this as acceptable for the better of the whole.
Golly Moses, I am sorry about what happened. I hope things are better for you now.
I’m very sorry that happened to your family, although I’m not sure exactly what happened. Does the Democrat run government of California suck? Yes it does. Is it screwing the residents over? Yes it is. Nonetheless the post I responded to was simply fake news.
What a sad story. I’m so sorry it happened to you.