California has ever been regarded as an innovative new frontier, but Roger Hedgecock shines a big maglite into its oozing abscesses and the underlying disease: socialism. It affects the rest of America to varying degrees, though they have a much more advanced case…
A peek into the future if obama wins re-election:
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I live in California. If you were wondering what living in Obama’s second term would be like, wonder no longer. We in California are living there now.
California is a one-party state dominated by a virulent Democratic Left enabled by a complicit media where every agency of local, county, and state government is run by and for the public employee unions. The unemployment rate is 12%.
California has more folks on food stamps than any other state, has added so many benefits and higher rates to Medicaid that we call it “Medi-Cal.” Our K-12 schools have more administrators than teachers, and smaller classes but lower test scores and higher dropout rates with twice the per-student budget of 15 years ago. Good job, Brownie.
This week, the once and current Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown had to confess that the “balanced” state budget adopted five months ago was billions in the red because actual tax revenues were billions lower than the airy-fairy revenue estimates on which the balance was predicated.
After trimming legislators’ perks and reducing the number of cell phones provided to state civil servants, the governor intoned that drastic budget reductions had already hollowed out state programs for the needy, law enforcement and our schoolchildren. California government needed more money.
Echoing the Occupy movement, the governor proclaimed the rich must pay their fair share. Fair share? The top 1% of California income earners currently pays 50% of the state’s income tax.
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In California?, we hate the evil, greedy rich (except the rich in Hollywood and in sports, and in drug dealing). But we love people who have broken into California to eat the bounty created by the productive rich.
Illegals get benefits from various generous welfare programs, free medical care, free schools for their kids, including meals, and of course, instate tuition rates and scholarships too. Governor Perry?, California has a heart. Nothing’s too good for our guests.[/box]
Read California's Not Dreamin' in its entirety.
Excellent article. He also addressed how high taxes and ecological requirements have sent businesses fleeing the state. They cannot afford to operate in California which I’m sure contributes to the high unemployment. I can see Mexico re-taking California after its politicians run it into the ground.
I don’t know about Mexico re-taking Cali; they seem pretty lazy about their own affairs… well, maybe the cartels will annex it…
I think that California should be kicked out of the Union and told not to come back until they learn to quit acting like an old-style Communist bloc country.
Sadly, I remember the California of the 80′s and early 90′s (which I grew up in as a teen and young adult) not being a bad place to be and still having opportunity and hope (when the Republicans were in charge). Now I find myself beseeching my old friends to get the hell out of Dodge before the roof falls in completely. A massive earthquake would be the least of their worries, hell, it could only improve things.
I was born there but remember very little, like a fuzzy dream…
A boy was born in Sutter Hospital, Sacramento, CA in 1947. That boy lived in Roseville, a then-small town just north of Sacramento, a town that grew in the last flat part of the Central Valley, where they got the trains ready to cross the Sierra Nevadas.
Back then it was expected that you could always see a few boys on bicycles with .22s and single shot shotguns riding off to hunt and just shoot. Now they’d call the SWAT Teams.
That boy joined the Service in 1964, after his discharge moved to Texas.
It’s funny. Except for the SF Bay area, LA, San Diego and Sacramento, the rest of the state is conservative. Trouble is, the rest of the state is outvoted and the pols have stacked the deck against them.
And today the Californians, New Yorkers and the rest of the commie trash are outvoting the rest of us, and the pols are stacking the deck against us. I moved to Texas to get away from ‘em. Where will my grandsons move? There’s noplace else to go. Sigh.
The City of Angels, 1957. Alhambra, West Covina, Whittier. I remember sweet little houses and happy young families.
I don’t remember political correctness, race wars or cold wars.
I grew up in Altadena and lived in Alhambra, Monterey Park, Rosemead and Arcadia once I moved away from home. I do remember the Watts riots and racial tensions after MLK Jr. was killed. We also had a “race riot” (for want of a better expression) one afternoon at Pasadena High School and we were all sent home (I graduated 1970) I was assaulted by a couple of black girls in the hallways once and I know my parents moved to Chula Vista after my younger brother was attacked at Muir High School. Good old bussing – I think that poor kid went to a different school every couple of years despite my parents not changing their address.
We were there at the same time; I’m only a few years younger! Gone by 1964, though.
Hell, a gang of black girls grabbed my friend and started waling on her in high school… in a little southeast Texas town. Of course, nobody talked about race…