Here’s an update from California. It’s still overtaxed and diverse — two factors that are connected because foreigners like big government and newbies require special services like English classes in school designed for non-speakers.
Americans have largely quit moving to the state and citizens are leaving, but immigrants still are flooding in, shown by the 11 million foreign-born residents as of 2017.
Here’s an update from Fox News reporter William La Jeunesse:
WILLIAM LA JEUNESSE: California is growing wealthier, more liberal, more expensive — forcing 52 percent of residents to consider leaving, including 71 percent who identify as conservative. Many businesses already have — this company leaving LA for Texas which is set to add three Congressional seats; California is losing one. . .CEO Magazine calls California America’s worst state for business; quality of life — the worst according to US News. Add taxes, traffic, housing, energy costs — almost 700 companies left in the last two years. . .Yet California is growing, thanks to immigrants from abroad. Its diverse economy, among the world’s largest, attracts more college grads than any other state. . .Some super-rich and retirees are leaving, but overall the state is gaining those that make over $125 grand, losing those that make under 75.
MEXIFORNIA IN
METLDOWN: First,
illegal immigration is the problem. CA has spent hundreds of billions
on illegal aliens and their bills — public schools, free meals at
school, special bi-lingual teachers, healthcare, housing allowances,
low income energy assistance, aid to families with dependent children,
prisons, cops, courts, public defenders, welfare, food stamps, and
a hundred other gov handouts. And don’t forget lower college tuition
for illegal immigrants. WAYNE ALLYN ROOT
"When we hear stories about the
homelessness in California and elsewhere, why don't we hear how illegal aliens
contribute to the problem? They take jobs and affordable housing,
yet instead of discouraging illegal aliens from breaking the law, politicians
encourage them to come by lavishing free stuff on them with
confiscated dollars from this and future
generations." JACK HELLNER
CALIFORNIA
IS THE REASON WHY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY SHOULD BRING TERROR TO AMERICANS (Legals)
California
Economy, finance, and budgets
Beset by high housing
costs, crippling taxes, astronomical gas prices, wildfires, and rolling
blackouts, Californians are heading for the exits. That’s sparking anxiety in
places where these Golden State migrants are relocating. A mayoral candidate in
Boise, Idaho, recently suggested building a wall to keep out Californians, who
account for 60 percent of domestic migration into the growing state. The
election of increasingly progressive candidates in Colorado sparked talk there
of the “Californication” of the Centennial State.
Early
last year, the Dallas News described the
“California-ing” of North Texas, citing a study showing that 8,300 Californians
move to the area yearly. Texas governor Greg Abbott launched a petition titled
“Don’t California My Texas.”
Much of
this anxiety revolves around fears that the migrants will transform the
politics and culture of the places that they’re moving to—bringing an appetite
for big, intrusive government. But a new survey suggests that, while plenty
of people are looking to leave California, many are fleeing the state’s high
costs and politics and may not be interested in voting for the same things in
their new homes. The poll, by the Berkeley Institute of Governmental
Studies, found that 52 percent of California residents are considering
migrating. As these polls go, that’s exceptionally high, putting California in
the same category as some other states with very unhappy residents. A recent
poll in New Jersey, for instance, found that about 44 percent of its people are
looking to depart, while 50 percent of Connecticut residents indicated a desire
to leave the state in a 2014 Gallup poll, the highest figure among any state at
that time.
BLOG:
CALIFORNIA’S TAXES PAY FOR A MASSIVE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE. ON THE STATE LEVEL
LEGALS ARE FORCED TO SUPPORT $35 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS TO KEEP
THEM COMING AND VOTING DEMOCRAT FOR MORE.
COUNTIES
HAND OUT EVEN MORE WITH LOS ANGELES COUNTY HANDING ILLEGALS MORE THAN ONE
BILLION PER YEAR FOR THEIR ANCHOR BABIES. THIS SAME COUNTY HAS A MEXICAN
TAX-FREE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY CALCULATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION PER YEAR.
Politicians
in high-tax states claim that taxes don’t drive people out, but their
constituents disagree: in the Berkeley poll, 58 percent of those considering
leaving California said that high taxes were one reason—second only to the 71
percent pointing to the state’s astronomical housing costs. Also high on the
list of reasons to go was the state’s political culture, which nearly half of
those thinking of getting out cited as a consideration. Though the poll didn’t
define “political culture,” Gallup ranks California—where the state legislature
and elected officials in many of the state’s cities have turned increasingly
progressive—as among the most liberal of states.
What set
the Berkeley poll apart is that it also asked residents their party affiliation
and how they characterized themselves politically—revealing a sharp divide.
Conservatives and moderates are the most unhappy with the state and most
anxious to leave. Liberals, by contrast, are mostly staying put, and some think
life in California is just great. Only 38 percent of Democrats said that they
were considering leaving, compared with 55 percent of independents and 71
percent of Republicans. Similarly, those characterizing themselves as “somewhat
liberal” were least likely to say that they want to go—fewer than four in ten
are considering leaving. But 53 percent of moderates, 66 percent of the
“somewhat conservative,” and 74 percent of the “very conservative” would like
to migrate. Political affiliation, in fact, was more of a predictor of who wants
to go or stay than other demographic information, such as race. The poll found,
for instance, that 56 percent of white residents and 58 percent of
African-Americans would like to leave; and 54 percent of men, compared with 50
percent of women, are thinking of going.
The
results also suggest, however, that a political revolution that reverses the
direction of California government is becoming increasingly difficult because
it’s experiencing the state version of the Curley Effect. That phrase, coined
by economists Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer, describes how big-city mayors
like James Michael Curley in Boston in the early twentieth century and Coleman
Young in Detroit in the mid-to-late twentieth century managed to solidify their
political dominance, even as their cities deteriorated because their policies
drove out the people most likely to vote against them. That may explain why,
despite California facing rising homelessness, increasing drug use, outbreaks
of infectious diseases, blackouts, soaring housing costs, and high energy
prices, voters and elected officials endorse still-higher taxes and fees,
lighter penalties for crimes like drug use and shoplifting, and a government
takeover of bankrupt power company Pacific Gas & Electric.
In a
much-quoted interview last summer, California governor Gavin Newsom called his
state a positive example of where America was heading—proof, he said, that
multiculturalism and progressive social values can produce prosperity.
“California is America’s coming attraction,” he said. About half of California
begs to differ.
///
Ask for Something, Offer Nothing: California's Way of Struggling Out of
the Bag It Has Put Itself Into
By Dan Cadman on January 28, 2020
This
is how Vocabulary.com defines the word "Hutzpah":
(Yiddish) unbelievable gall;
insolence; audacity
Synonyms: chutzpa, chutzpah
Type of: cheekiness, crust,
freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence
the
trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
That's
the word I thought of when I saw this incredible January 22 headline from
Reuters: "California governor
seeks free surplus federal land to help house homeless".
Other recent
articles have centered on the fact that California's homeless and housing
crises are pretty much out of control. And much of the fault can be centered
on the last couple of feckless governors and California's equally feckless
legislature and top state officials such as Xavier Becerra, the state's
attorney general and a former member of Congress.
They have
enacted such a muddled web of laws, rules, and regulations impeding housing
development and growth that it is exceedingly difficult to construct homes
south of $1 million — and not very many people have that kind of money, despite
the hype of places like Silicon Valley.
BLOG: MEXIFORNIA IN METLDOWN: First, illegal
immigration is the problem. CA has spent hundreds of billions on
illegal aliens and their bills — public schools, free meals at
school, special bi-lingual teachers, healthcare, housing allowances,
low income energy assistance, aid to families with
dependent children, prisons, cops, courts, public defenders, welfare,
food stamps, and a hundred other gov handouts. And don’t forget lower
college tuition for illegal immigrants. WAYNE ALLYN ROOT
"When we hear stories about the homelessness in California
and elsewhere, why don't we hear how illegal aliens contribute to the
problem? They take jobs and affordable housing, yet instead of
discouraging illegal aliens from breaking the law, politicians encourage them
to come by lavishing free stuff on them with confiscated dollars from this
and future generations." JACK HELLNER
And so
homelessness has reached epic proportions. How have California and
municipalities reacted? By creating policies guaranteed to act as a magnet to
the homeless nationwide, and then decreeing that they will not enforce laws on
the books related to public urination and defecation, the dropping of needles
on curbs all over city streets, and on and on. It is no wonder that major
health issues are
cropping up all over the state.
It's also
no wonder that California is bleeding its middle class into other states so
quickly that it's likely to lose a
congressional seat as a result of the next census-driven apportionment. (One readily imagines some
California leaders saying, "No problem! We'll replace the population loss
with illegal aliens!")
Which leads
me to the point. This is an immigration-related blog, so let's focus there.
The nation's
most-populous state has done virtually everything it can to stymie federal
immigration enforcement, by:
·
Declaring
itself a sanctuary;
·
Permitting
illegal aliens to attend state schools at in-state rates, in preference over
U.S. citizens who happen to hail from some other state, such as Nevada next
door;
·
Enacting
the Safe Act to prevent cops from cooperating with ICE and CBP agents;
·
Filing
lawsuits at every opportunity to seek injunctions against immigration
enforcement and benefits policies (the border barrier, the "travel
ban", the public charge rule, the revised rules on when and where one may
seek asylum, ad infinitum); and even
·
Enacting
state laws that trample on federal supremacy over immigration matters by
attempting to prevent private employers from cooperating with ICE agents under
the threat of hefty fines or jail, and legislating prohibitions on the use of
private jails to detain illegal aliens.
So now the
state — which wants to substitute its wisdom for that of the federal government
in so many areas despite ample evidence it can't handle problems within
its own borders — is asking the federal government for a free handout?
Governor
Newsom is quoted as saying in a letter to Ben
Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, "You could match our
commitment by similarly providing free surplus federal land to local
governments across the state so they can build housing for the homeless. ...
Emergency shelter solves sleep, and we agree this is an urgent priority. ...
But only housing and services solve homelessness."
What commitment?
I find myself
spinning this request out a little bit to try to envision it. Does anyone doubt
that illegal aliens hiding in the state's sanctuary borders would be among the
happy recipients of any state plan to deal with the homeless? And it's a sure bet
that there wouldn't be a quid pro quo: "give us free land and we'll
cooperate with your agents and officers."
It's also
doubtful that California's plans would be anything but haphazard once the land
grab has taken place. The ham-handed legislature hasn't shown itself effective
at doing anything worthwhile yet; no reason to put much faith in them now. And
would such land in fact ever end up being used for its avowed purposes? Or
would California's progressive and woke politicians act like politicians everywhere
and find a way instead to hand the land over to well-connected individuals and
corporate entitles who would in turn fill their campaign chest coffers? I'd put
money on that scenario.
But if by
some miracle state bureaucracies were left to do something with the land
according to their own plans, how would that likely turn out? Like large tent
camps of exactly the kind that Californian pols called "concentration
camps" when undertaken by the federal government to house the tidal wave
of humans flowing across our southern border, in no small measure because of
states like California?
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