California, once the "land of milk and honey", now leads the nation in poverty
RJ~PWCM~JLA
2012/11/20 13:28:28
That's right.
California now leads the nation in poverty.
California's poverty rate - 23.5% - is higher than Washington, D.C.'s - 23.2%!
That's what 40 years of Democrat rule will do. (High taxes. Great welfare benefits. Insane environmental regulations.)
So write your Representative. Write your Senator. Write the "president".
And tell them - NO CALIFORNIA BAILOUT!
California now leads the nation in poverty.
California's poverty rate - 23.5% - is higher than Washington, D.C.'s - 23.2%!
That's what 40 years of Democrat rule will do. (High taxes. Great welfare benefits. Insane environmental regulations.)
So write your Representative. Write your Senator. Write the "president".
And tell them - NO CALIFORNIA BAILOUT!
Read More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235059/Ca...
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PoliticallyIncorrect 2012/11/20 13:37:09
+16Democratically run, bountiful welfare, sanctuary cities for illegal aliens, Hollywood, yes, I see all kinds of reasons to let them go bankrupt and regroup. They've screwed the pooch way too often and then want to be bailed out. I don't think so. Let the rich liberals in Hollywood bail them out. Actually, it would be a lot healthier for them to go bankrupt and regroup. Failure is an option.
The article uses data from the Census Bureau.
You freaking fool!
http://www.usdebtclock.org/st...
http://www.usdebtclock.org/st...
That's where the data in the article came from.
The state debt clocks, on the other hand shows current debt data for all the states. I just find it interesting that Texas has a little more residents on food stamps than California has (4.152 million v 4.148 million), yet California has almost 12 million more residents.
At least you didn't idiotically blame it on one GOP figure, given that both houses of California's legislature has been controlled by Democrats for the last 40 years!
Thanks for really thinking about your comment before posting, and not making a total jackass out of yourself!
I can't blame just one or the other but rather a mess of bad decisions and situations that lead to this. I think it's funny to bring up that California's excessive regulation has brought about their current scenario because when Wilson brought about a plan that deregulated the energy sector, Enron turned around to use this deregulation so they could intentionally cause blackouts with the intention of getting a portion of their fraudulent earnings through their speculators on the derivatives market (and it worked.) This ended up costing the state somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 Billion because instead of using the deregulation to provide the market-oriented results that conservatives claim they're for, the energy companies used this to price gouge their consumers (and Gov. Davis) like liberals claimed was going to happen (and because of bankruptcy rules, California was only able to recover $202 Million of that $40 Billion pie.) Of course, Gray Davis came through and never found anything he didn't like to spend or tax on, which led to him being recalled in favor of Schwarzenegger. I also don't blame the citizens of California for wanting en...
I can't blame just one or the other but rather a mess of bad decisions and situations that lead to this. I think it's funny to bring up that California's excessive regulation has brought about their current scenario because when Wilson brought about a plan that deregulated the energy sector, Enron turned around to use this deregulation so they could intentionally cause blackouts with the intention of getting a portion of their fraudulent earnings through their speculators on the derivatives market (and it worked.) This ended up costing the state somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 Billion because instead of using the deregulation to provide the market-oriented results that conservatives claim they're for, the energy companies used this to price gouge their consumers (and Gov. Davis) like liberals claimed was going to happen (and because of bankruptcy rules, California was only able to recover $202 Million of that $40 Billion pie.) Of course, Gray Davis came through and never found anything he didn't like to spend or tax on, which led to him being recalled in favor of Schwarzenegger. I also don't blame the citizens of California for wanting environmental regulations considering the smog problem that persists in California; there's been a long-standing history as to how this adversely affected the population I don't believe we're a better nation for exposing our citizens to chemicals that will prematurely end their life.
As a guy who lives, eats, and sleeps in California, there's many reasons why I feel it's in the state that it's in, but I find that overpopulation is the biggest root of their issues. The state has over 37 Million Residents and accounts for 12% of the entire population of the United States. Yes, sanctuary cities are a problem in attracting illegals from all over the world (not just Mexico), but there's still plenty of legitimate citizens who move here for business reasons or to find work. When that many people are competing to live in such little space, costs go up because renting and real estate becomes competitive, as does purchasing fuel and other day-to-day necessities (grocery prices are still relatively reasonable.) The only way this will be resolved is by having everyone leave the state so real estate could go down (then again, if everyone left, then it would pretty much make it wide open for wealthy Americans to swoop in, purchase land, and inflate the price based on increasing what the "market value" is for the area.) The transient population adds to this as well; most homeless people gravitate towards this area too because if you're gonna be without a home, you may as well live on the streets in a place where you won't freeze or overheat yourself to death.
Of course, there's the portions which could be rightly attributed to "liberal" causes as well. Pensions need to be revamped, unions need accountability, lawyers need to stop writing proposals that stop serving their intended purpose after the first two sentences, and the tax code needs reform (entitlements don't pay out nearly as much as people want to believe here; I could collect better unemployment in Arkansas than I could in California.) Yet even if all that in effect, companies will still pay more for top talent, more people will want to retire here because of the weather (just ask Romney), and as a result, everything will still cost more because of supply/demand and competition. That's capitalism in it's most pure form.
Part of me is also skeptical of the fact that while the Daily Mail (a conservative newspaper) may have covered this, that the first news sources to report this were the left-leaning Huffington Post and the ultra-left leaning LA Weekly. Are they trying to bring this up to show what happens when "liberalism runs amok" or are they trying to bring this up to support an argument that the rich aren't taxed enough?
Except for the period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election (even while the governor's office has gone back and forth between Republicans and Democrats). The Senate has been in Democratic hands continuously since 1970.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Then again, there's this psychological defense called projection, and that's when someone finds flaws in themselves and needs to project that on to someone else. I know of another state that has high taxes, sanctuary cities, high unemployment, and a crime-ridden city that's one of the poorest in the Union. But instead of wishing New Jersey falls into the Atlantic because Murdoch Media tells me so, I hope this country as a whole pulls through, regardless of who's in office.
They also generate a lot of money, the reason the poor move there is to chase after that American Dream.