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The Washington Examiner
Politically, California is everything liberals want America to become.
Democrats control every statewide elected office, they have two-thirds
majorities in both legislative chambers, and the state Republican party is
virtually non-existent. Problem is, the policy results liberal Democratic
governance has produced aren’t pretty. But don’t worry, says Paul Krugman, all
that is changing.
In his latest column, Krugman writes,”Unemployment in
California remains high, but it’s coming down — and there’s a projected budget
surplus, in part because the implosion of the state’s Republican Party finally
gave Democrats a big enough political advantage to push through some
desperately needed tax increases. Far from presiding over a Greek-style crisis,
Gov. Jerry Brown is proclaiming a comeback.”
Krugman does later admit that, “I’m not suggesting everything in California
is just fine,” but he never identifies what the problems are on
progressive paradise. Here are just a few:
1. California has the nation’s highest
unemployment
Krugman does mention that, “Unemployment in California remains high,” but he fails to mention just how high it is. In fact, California is tied with Mississippi and Nevada for the highest unemployment rate in the country at 9.6 percent.
Krugman does mention that, “Unemployment in California remains high,” but he fails to mention just how high it is. In fact, California is tied with Mississippi and Nevada for the highest unemployment rate in the country at 9.6 percent.
2. California has one-third of all welfare
recipients
Krugman says asserts that California’s “problems bear no resemblance to the death-by-liberalism story line the California-bashers keep peddling.” But he neglects to mention that California is home to one-third of all U.S. welfare recipients despite housing just 12 percent of all U.S. citizens.
Krugman says asserts that California’s “problems bear no resemblance to the death-by-liberalism story line the California-bashers keep peddling.” But he neglects to mention that California is home to one-third of all U.S. welfare recipients despite housing just 12 percent of all U.S. citizens.
3. California has the nation’s highest
poverty rate
Despite all the welfare spending, California still somehow manages to have the nation’s highest poverty rate. Go figure.
Despite all the welfare spending, California still somehow manages to have the nation’s highest poverty rate. Go figure.
4. California has the nation’s highest taxes
Krugman does mention that “serious studies have found very little evidence either that tax hikes cause lots of wealthy people to move or that state taxes have any significant impact on growth,” but he fails to mention that California’s taxes are not just high, but the highest in the nation.
Krugman does mention that “serious studies have found very little evidence either that tax hikes cause lots of wealthy people to move or that state taxes have any significant impact on growth,” but he fails to mention that California’s taxes are not just high, but the highest in the nation.
5. California has the nation’s third highest
income inequality
California’s already high taxes have failed to adequately redistribute income. Even before the Great Recession, California already had the third-highest income inequality in America (behind New Mexico and Arizona). And according to the Public Policy Institute of California, it only got more unequal during the recession: “Compared to the rest of the country, California experienced larger declines in income at the bottom of the distribution and smaller declines at the top — leading to the largest gap between upper and lower incomes in at least 30 years.”
California’s already high taxes have failed to adequately redistribute income. Even before the Great Recession, California already had the third-highest income inequality in America (behind New Mexico and Arizona). And according to the Public Policy Institute of California, it only got more unequal during the recession: “Compared to the rest of the country, California experienced larger declines in income at the bottom of the distribution and smaller declines at the top — leading to the largest gap between upper and lower incomes in at least 30 years.”
6. California’s teachers are among the
nation’s highest paid while its students are among the least educated
Krugman also claims that “decades of political paralysis have degraded the state’s once-superb public education system.” And it is true: California’s public education system is terrible. In 2011, the state’s eighth-graders finished 48th in reading, ahead of just Louisiana and Mississippi, and 48th in math, ahead of just Alabama and Mississippi. But California is not skimping on teacher pay. It’s teachers are the third highest paid teachers in the nation.
Krugman also claims that “decades of political paralysis have degraded the state’s once-superb public education system.” And it is true: California’s public education system is terrible. In 2011, the state’s eighth-graders finished 48th in reading, ahead of just Louisiana and Mississippi, and 48th in math, ahead of just Alabama and Mississippi. But California is not skimping on teacher pay. It’s teachers are the third highest paid teachers in the nation.
7. California has the nation’s highest energy
prices
Krugman does mention the state’s blackout problems in 2001, but blames the entire incident on “deregulation” and “market manipulation.” But California’s failure to build new power plants, refineries, pipelines, and transmission lines is very real. There is a reason California has nation’s the highest gas prices and the among the nation’s highest electricity prices, despite sitting on billions of barrels of oil.
Krugman does mention the state’s blackout problems in 2001, but blames the entire incident on “deregulation” and “market manipulation.” But California’s failure to build new power plants, refineries, pipelines, and transmission lines is very real. There is a reason California has nation’s the highest gas prices and the among the nation’s highest electricity prices, despite sitting on billions of barrels of oil.
8. California’s budget isn’t balanced
Credit Krugman for noting that California’s budget is only a “projected” one, but he then fails to mention how unreliable California’s tax revenue projections have been in the past. A recent California Common Sense study showed that, since the recession began, the governor’s projections have overestimated revenues by an average of 5.5 percent. Apply that average to Brown’s 2013 projections and California’s budget would suddenly go from $1 billion in the black to $3.9 billion in the red.
Credit Krugman for noting that California’s budget is only a “projected” one, but he then fails to mention how unreliable California’s tax revenue projections have been in the past. A recent California Common Sense study showed that, since the recession began, the governor’s projections have overestimated revenues by an average of 5.5 percent. Apply that average to Brown’s 2013 projections and California’s budget would suddenly go from $1 billion in the black to $3.9 billion in the red.
9. California is deep in debt
Even if California’s current budget does produce a tiny surplus this year, the state is still deeply in debt. According to the state’s own auditor, California has a negative net worth of $127 billion, about half of which stems from “$57.5 billion in outstanding bonded debt issued to build capital assets for school districts and other local governmental entities.”
Even if California’s current budget does produce a tiny surplus this year, the state is still deeply in debt. According to the state’s own auditor, California has a negative net worth of $127 billion, about half of which stems from “$57.5 billion in outstanding bonded debt issued to build capital assets for school districts and other local governmental entities.”
Other than that, California’s comeback is going great.
The Washington Examiner
Politically, California is everything liberals want America
to become. Democrats control every statewide elected office, they have
two-thirds majorities in both legislative chambers, and the state Republican
party is virtually non-existent. Problem is, the policy results liberal
Democratic governance has produced aren’t pretty. But don’t worry, says Paul
Krugman, all that is changing.
In his latest column, Krugman writes,”Unemployment in
California remains high, but it’s coming down — and there’s a projected budget
surplus, in part because the implosion of the state’s Republican Party finally
gave Democrats a big enough political advantage to push through some
desperately needed tax increases. Far from presiding over a Greek-style crisis,
Gov. Jerry Brown is proclaiming a comeback.”
Krugman does later admit that, “I’m not suggesting everything
in California is just fine,” but he never identifies what the problems are
on progressive paradise. Here are just a
few:
1. California has the nation’s highest unemployment
Krugman does mention that, “Unemployment in California
remains high,” but he fails to mention just how high it is. In fact, California
is tied with Mississippi and Nevada for the highest unemployment rate in the
country at 9.6 percent.
2. California has one-third of all welfare recipients
Krugman says asserts that California’s “problems bear no
resemblance to the death-by-liberalism story line the California-bashers keep
peddling.” But he neglects to mention that California is home to one-third of
all U.S. welfare recipients despite housing just 12 percent of all U.S.
citizens.
3. California has the nation’s highest poverty rate
Despite all the welfare spending, California still somehow
manages to have the nation’s highest poverty rate. Go figure.
4. California has the nation’s highest taxes
Krugman does mention that “serious studies have found very
little evidence either that tax hikes cause lots of wealthy people to move or
that state taxes have any significant impact on growth,” but he fails to
mention that California’s taxes are not just high, but the highest in the
nation.
5. California has the nation’s third highest income
inequality
California’s already high taxes have failed to adequately
redistribute income. Even before the Great Recession, California already had
the third-highest income inequality in America (behind New Mexico and Arizona).
And according to the Public Policy Institute of California, it only got more
unequal during the recession: “Compared to the rest of the country, California
experienced larger declines in income at the bottom of the distribution and
smaller declines at the top — leading to the largest gap between upper and
lower incomes in at least 30 years.”
6. California’s teachers are among the nation’s highest paid while
its students are among the least educated
Krugman also claims that “decades of political paralysis have
degraded the state’s once-superb public education system.” And it is true:
California’s public education system is terrible. In 2011, the state’s eighth-graders
finished 48th in reading, ahead of just Louisiana and Mississippi, and 48th in
math, ahead of just Alabama and Mississippi. But California is not skimping on
teacher pay. It’s teachers are the third highest paid teachers in the nation.
7. California has the nation’s highest energy prices
Krugman does mention the state’s blackout problems in 2001,
but blames the entire incident on “deregulation” and “market manipulation.” But
California’s failure to build new power plants, refineries, pipelines, and
transmission lines is very real. There is a reason California has nation’s the
highest gas prices and the among the nation’s highest electricity prices,
despite sitting on billions of barrels of oil.
8. California’s budget isn’t balanced
Credit Krugman for noting that California’s budget is only a
“projected” one, but he then fails to mention how unreliable California’s tax
revenue projections have been in the past. A recent California Common Sense
study showed that, since the recession began, the governor’s projections have
overestimated revenues by an average of 5.5 percent. Apply that average to
Brown’s 2013 projections and California’s budget would suddenly go from $1
billion in the black to $3.9 billion in the red.
9. California is deep in debt
Even if California’s current budget does produce a tiny
surplus this year, the state is still deeply in debt. According to the state’s
own auditor, California has a negative net worth of $127 billion, about half of
which stems from “$57.5 billion in outstanding bonded debt issued to build
capital assets for school districts and other local governmental entities.”
Other than that, California’s comeback is going great.
“What is
driving that kind of growth? Over 10-12 million legal immigrants in California
were born abroad. Immigrants birth 900,000 babies annually. (www.cis.org, Dr.
Steven Camarata) Something in the range of 4 to 5 million illegal immigrants
live and work in California. Most do not pay taxes and others pay on forged
identification.”
Democrats turning California into
a third-world hellhole: Going without electricity edition
Democrats are turning California into a third-world hellhole
without electricity, water, and freedom.
Due to Democrats' love
for trees, at least 800,000 Californians will be without power for several
days. Instead of properly managing California forests to reduce the
chances of big fires, Democrats are saying Californians have to go without
lights, refrigerators, and air-conditioning. Democrats could also
avoid this by not making the power company financially liable for all forest
fire damages, but since PG&E is a company, not an illegal alien, the
Democrats couldn't care less about doing what's best for California.
While they try to blame
climate change and the infrastructure, the reality is that neither of those has
caused any significant changes in the last ten years — but now, suddenly, due
to Democrat policies, Californians have to start living in the 18th century.
The Democrats who run
California also refuse to build more water storage capacity even though the
state's population has dramatically increased, ensuring that water has to be
rationed during droughts.
Democrats are turning
California into a third-world country economically. The income
inequality between the über-rich Silicon Valley workers and the rest of
Californians is huge, just like in third-world countries, while the elites live
in luxury and the rest live in squalor.
Democrats are doing a
great job manufacturing poverty and homelessness even as they fail to instill
hope in Californians.
California has four times more homeless per
capita and three times more poor per capita than the rest of
America. Half the homeless in America are in California, even though
California has only 12% of the U.S. population. Also, blacks are six
times more prevalent in the San
Francisco homeless population than they are in California in general.
The homeless explosion
has brought the return of third-world diseases like typhus to California — not
to mention streets littered with human feces.
Democrats are trying to
keep people from having cars, just like the people of the Third
World. After all, a car gives people the freedom to move, and
freedom is a bad thing in the minds of Democrats since it limits the power the
government has over citizens.
Recently, Gavin Newsom,
the Democrat governor, transferred millions of dollars that the voters had been
ensured would go to improve the state's failing road infrastructure to a fund
designed to convince Californians to give up their cars.
Democrats are also
working to make cars unaffordable for any but the richest Californians.
Californians pay $1.53 more for a gallon for
gasoline than the rest of America. That's $21 more for a tank of
gasoline. Facebook employees won't notice it, but the poor in
California who can't afford to live near their jobs are paying through the
teeth.
Like all third-world
tyrants, Democrats are doing everything they can to eliminate democracy in
California.
The jungle primary, where
the top two candidates in the primaries go against each other, has resulted in
many races where two Democrats are running against each other, giving voters
who don't agree with the Democrats' failed policies no one to vote for.
California is doing
nothing to ensure that people who shouldn't vote don't
vote. Instead, the people running the state are doing everything
possible to let illegal aliens vote. When illegal aliens go pick up
their driver's licenses, they're automatically enrolled to vote unless they say
they're not citizens.
California is also trying
to end democracy by keeping the Republican presidential candidate off the
ballot. Democrats passed an unconstitutional law to keep any
candidate who didn't release his tax returns off the ballot solely to keep
Californians from voting for Trump.
Finally, the Democrats
are going after freedom of the press. An undercover journalist
revealed that Planned Parenthood was selling aborted baby
parts. Instead of investigating that illegal practice, Democrat
Kamala Harris decided to put the journalist on trial.
Democrats keep telling us
California is the future if they get elected. That means that
poverty, homelessness, the end of democracy, and a press that reports only what
Democrats want heard are what Democrats are promising us.
If you're an immensely
wealthy Google employee, California is Heaven. If you're not, it's
becoming more and more like Hell.
You can read more of Tom's rants at his blog, Conversations
about the obvious, and feel free to follow him on Twitter.
CALIFORNIA:
AMERICA'S FIRST FAILED STATE
By Frosty Wooldridge
January 19, 2012
NewsWithViews.com
In 1965, California housed a reasonable 15 million people.
No traffic jams, little air pollution and everyone spoke English. Route 66,
from Chicago to Los Angeles, ended at the Santa Monica Pier. Americans drove to
Yosemite National Park for a delightful weekend of hiking. Tony Bennett sang,
“I left my heart in San Francisco.”
California ranked among the top five educational systems in
America. Hollywood produced incredible movies with Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward,
John Wayne, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Jane
Russell. I loved Gary Cooper. Bing Crosby sang away our troubles and Bob Hope
laughed away our cares.
Few criminals plied the streets of cities in California.
Everyone pledged their allegiance to the United States of America and our stars
and stripes. Skiers and surfers plied the waves and moguls.
But in 1965, something happened in the Halls of Congress
called the “Immigration Reform Act” pushed by the late Teddy Kennedy that
changed the 200,000 annual incoming immigrants from compatible countries to 1.2
million third world immigrants annually. Senator Howard Metzenbaum said, “He
let the flood gates wide open.”
Within 40 years, the United States galloped from193 million
people to 315 million in 2012. Kennedy’s bill will add another 138 million
people by 2050-a scant 38 years from now. From a net exporter of oil, we now
import 7 out of 10 barrels at a cost of trillions of dollars. Kennedy’s
egregious mistake changed the ethnic, linguistic and cultural foundation of
America into what we see in California today. Also, Houston, Chicago, Miami,
Detroit and New York.
His single act changed the entire history of America from
success to utter and growing chaos on multiple levels.
California reached a mind-blowing 38 million people in 2011.
It adds 1,655 people net gain daily. It adds over 400 vehicles 24/7 on its
already crushed highways. (Source:www.CapsWeb.org) California expects to add 20
million people within 30 years.
What is
driving that kind of growth? Over 10-12 million legal immigrants in California
were born abroad. Immigrants birth 900,000 babies annually. (www.cis.org, Dr.
Steven Camarata) Something in the range of 4 to 5 million illegal immigrants
live and work in California. Most do not pay taxes and others pay on forged
identification.
For every added person, 25.4 acres of land must be destroyed
to build homes, schools, roads, malls and everything else to support that
person. Known as “ecological footprint”, it destroys wilderness and arable
land. Thus, California leads the country in animal and plant extinction rates.
Worse, California with its seething, hungry human mob sucks
up so much water from the Colorado River that it fails to reach the ocean. As
it adds another 20 million people, it will destroy millions upon millions of
acres of farmland.
On the educational front, over 100 languages now paralyze
California school systems. From the top five states in education, California
sank to the bottom five in the United States. English has become a foreign
language in California.
As to crime, MS-13 gangs work with the 20,000 member “18th
Street Gang” to power drugs, guns and other contraband into the streets of
America. Pot farms grow in national parks.
As to cultural breakdown, California now features major
Mexican cock fighting organizations throughout the state. Police caught one
group of 300 Mexicans last week as they roared and screamed at their blood
sport:
In Freemont, California, the call to worship for its
dominant Muslim immigrant audience heralds from the growing network of Mosques.
Women’s rights degrade, female genital mutilation grows, arranged marriages are
commonplace and honor killings take place. (Covered up by the liberal press, of
course.)
Yosemite features wall to wall crowds that make any chance
for a wilderness experience a hike into human dominated wilderness frenzy.
Most of the children born in California today feature
Mexican parents living on American welfare. The EBT program or Electronic
Benefits Transfers rewards single mothers unlimited financial support for every
baby they produce. And they produce them by the tens of thousands. One mother
said on a recording, “I get everything for free…I don’t know why anyone would
want to work in America.”Write me at frostyw@juno.com and I will send you the
live video of the interview.
Thus, California runs a $24 billion debt that cannot be
paid. Ultimately, California will bankrupt into chaos. It suffers from a
Faustian Bargain that degrades into Hobson’s Choice.
With so many languages, so many ethnic tribes and so many
cultures fighting for dominance in California, how will it survive the next 20
million added people? The TV journalist Bill Moyers asked the famed science
fiction writer Isaac Asimov, “Which is the greater danger - nuclear warfare or
the population explosion?
“The latter absolutely!” said Asimov. “To bring about
nuclear war, someone has to DO something; someone has to press a button. To
bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the
destruction of our most cherished values—there is no need to do anything. We
need only do nothing except what comes naturally—and breed. And how easy it is
to do nothing."
Asimov followed up with a penetrating reality check brought
about by overpopulation: “...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human
dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you
put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines,
it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies. The more people there are,
the less one individual matters.”
California
will become our first third world country within our country. It pretty well
has reached that status in 2012. It’s a failing state like Mexico. Corruption
is a mechanism by which a third world country operates. Illiteracy drives a
failed state. California defines that reality.
I suspect that Houston, Chicago, Detroit and other heavily
dominated immigrant cities will follow California. How come I see this “thing”
accelerating and most Americans apathetically sit by and do nothing? Our kids
will curse our inaction and historians will laugh at the stupidity of mass
immigration, diversity and multiculturalism as it took the greatest country in
the world down to its knees. Tragically, we did nothing to stop it.
To show you where we’re headed in-depth, read Pat Buchanan’s
epic work: Suicide of a Superpower.
Listen to Frosty Wooldridge on Wednesdays as he interviews
top national leaders on his radio show "Connecting the Dots" at
www.themicroeffect.com at 6:00 PM Mountain Time. Adjust tuning in to your time
zone.
BOOK: Mexifornia: SHATTERING OF AN AMERICAN DREAM (illegals
call it their DREAM ACT)
BOOK:
MEXIFORNIA –
THE SHATTERING OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
WITH THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION
"Victor Davis Hanson brings a lifetime of experience in
California's Central Valley to this indictment of multiculturalism and mass
immigration." -- Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies
READER’S REVIEW (source: AMAZON)
If you don't understand something or disagree with a concept
then the best way to conceal your ignorance or discredit the idea is to call it
"racist". Dr. Hanson did not have to go very far out on a limb to
make the point that non assimilation of Chicanos to American culture is
divisive and destructive - and that it is the new immigrant that is failing to
adapt. Great book, on point and very timely.
*Starred Review*
Classics professor Hanson is also,
like generations of his family before him, a fruit farmer in California's
central valley. He has employed immigrants, seen them flood his community
during the last 30 years of mass flight from Mexico, and endured the crime
associated with illegal immigrants. Hanson is immensely sympathetic to poor
Mexicans, however, and the most powerful chapter here outlines the harried life
of the illegal alien. But he hates to see the ordered culture in which he grew
up drowned by an alien inundation whose undeserving beneficiaries are Mexico's
kleptocratic rulers, for whom an open border is a safety valve expelling the
potential for democratic change. The four solutions to the mess that Hanson
enumerates include continuing de facto open borders but insisting on rapid
acculturation; patrolling the border effectively and reducing legal
immigration; imposing "sweeping restrictions on immigration" and
ending Mexican chauvinism in the U.S.; and allowing present policies to make California
increasingly mirror an unreformed Mexico. Hanson thinks that the U.S.
"still need not do everything right" to prevent social collapse in
the Southwest and that the totalitarian uniformity of valueless mass culture
may soften that collapse. He also sees very clearly what has brought this
crisis on: the American globalist ideology's lust for cheap labor and emphasis
on "raw inclusiveness" instead of "standards and taste."
*
Review
"Hanson's 'Mexifornia' is that rare book that combines
scholarship with personal experience to provide genuine insight into a complex
issue." -- Linda Chavez, author of An Unlikely Conservative
*
"Victor Davis Hanson brings a lifetime of experience in
California's Central Valley to this indictment of multiculturalism and mass
immigration." -- Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies
• Hardcover: 150 pages
• Publisher: Encounter Books; 1 edition (July 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893554732
• ISBN-13: 978-1893554733
ALL REVIEWS ARE FROM AMAZON.com
REVIEW 1
This review is from: Mexifornia: A
State of Becoming (Hardcover)
This book shows how Mexico sends
their poor to America to work, so they don't have to improve their own country,
and how we use these people for cheap labor so that we can sell things for less.
It's a deal made between the two countries. The trouble is, it's not what
American citizens want. The "servants of the people", the
representatives, are not listening to us, so it's always exciting to read
something that really tells it like it is.
This book is written from the
viewpoint of someone who actually lives with these Mexican immigrants. The rich
people who want to use them in their businesses for cheap labor don't live with
them; the liberal elites who push for them to get amnesty don't live with them.
This guy lives among them, and knows the problems first hand, and as I
suspected, there are many, and they're not pretty.
He writes very bluntly about the
problems, but not without sympathy for the Mexican immigrants whose own country
won't take care of them. With all the new books out and the discussions going
on about legal and illegal immigration, and what the American people want, I'm
hoping that these problems will be solved. This book is one of the best on the
subject, because it is written from a viewpoint of personal experience.
*
REVIEW 2
Victor Hanson combines scholarship
(Professor at Cal State) with personal experience (life long resident and
farmer in central CA. who has Mexican-American family and friends) to present a
thoughtful look at the illegal Mexican immigration crisis. Hanson argues that
the reason for this crisis is that both ends of the political spectrum have
vested interests in continuing the unabated entry of illegal Mexicans.
Republicans wish to placate business interests with cheap labor and Democrats
hope for a future electoral base. Hanson further explains that this wave is not
like the earlier waves of Polish, Jewish, or Italian immigration which was of a
fixed duration and where the connection of the new immigrant to the Homeland
was more thoroughly severed.
This book is well written and to
the point (approx. 140 pages). I have also seen Victor Hanson on several
political talk shows. He is well spoken and mild mannered which is a welcome
relief from the cacophonous diatribe we too often get on cable news channels.
*
REVIEW 3
As one who shares the author's
ethnic,cultural and geographical heritage, I thought Hanson did a marvelous job
of assessing California's major social issue, and one of America's primary problems.
Like Hanson, I was born and reared in Fresno County, albeit some 25 miles from
his native Selma. I can attest to the accuracy of his description of Selma and
the Central Valley in the 1950's.
As a child, my associates included
Hispanics; as a teenager working in the fig and peach orchards, my fellow
workers were Hispanic. During my professional career, I have hired and promoted
many Hispanics.
Hanson's Scandinavian ancestors
(from Sweden) and mine (from Denmark) came to America legally and without
speaking English, but they succeeded--without bilingual classes, welfare,
government subsidies, or that phenomenon known as "affirmative
action", which is being rapidly unmasked as nothing, more or less, than
"reverse discrimination". Hanson deftly exposes the race industry as
an amalgam of organizations and individuals who are quick to attack the Anglo
for any slight, either real or imagined, but who, in the long run, seem not to
do much for those whom they purport to serve.
As a criminologist, I am well aware
of the violence committed by Hispanic Gangs, and the fact that those gangsters
who do not wind up in the morgue soon become expensive inmates in our
overcrowded prison system, costing taxpayers some $25k per year each. I am
equally aware of the many outstanding Hispanic officers, prosecutors, and
judges with whom I've worked.
Hanson has eloquently described the
failure of our educational programs to work toward an assimilated America, as
well as the failure of the "separatists" in the race industry.
The one failure which, to my
surprise, he did not identify is that of our elected officials who establish
public policy. When Hanson and I were youngsters/young men in the Central
Valley, the politicians seemed to act in the best interests of their
constituencies. Today,by and large, our politicians have little integrity, but
rather pander incessantly to special interests which, in turn, provide them
with campaign funds, endorsements,and precinct workers.It is common knowledge
that, in Sacramento, legislative votes are "for sale" almost daily.
Until we can restore some integrity among our public officials, we will not
move toward a better California--better for Hispanics, Anglos, African Americans,
Asians, and all others!
Except for his failure to discuss
the lack of integrity among many of our elected officials, Hanson has done an
admirable job. Mexifornia should be on the "must read" list of all
who are concerned about the future of Californians, nothwithstanding the color
of their skins!
*
DICK LAMM, GOVERNOR OF COLORADO
REVIEW 4
We know Dick Lamm as the former
Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant.
Last week there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC,
filled to capacity by many of America's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant
college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest
book, "Mexifornia," explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal
was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across
the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
Moments later, former Colorado
Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy
America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the
destruction of the United States. He said, "If you believe that America is
too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy! America. It is not
that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold
Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An
autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.'"
"Here is how they do it,"
Lamm said: "First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or
multi-lingual and bicultural country." History shows that no nation can
survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing
languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual;
however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar,
Seymour Lipset, put it this way: "The histories of bilingual and
bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension,
and
tragedy." Canada, Belgium,
Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities
press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided.
Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques,
Bretons, and Corsicans."
Lamm went on: Second, to destroy
America, "Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain
their culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are
equal. That there are no cultural differences. I would make it an article of
faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and
discrimination by the majority.
Every other explanation is out of bounds.
Third, "We could make the
United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate
diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly
recently: "The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural
experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without
the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an
American, we! are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us
together." Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their
own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the
salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have
various cultural subgroups living
in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing
their similarities."
"Fourth, I would make our
fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second
underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I
would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high
school."
"My fifth point for destroying
America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots
of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of
'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success
was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all
minority failure on the majority
population."
"My sixth plan for America's
downfall would include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would
celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than
similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other
- that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable
society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it
takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks
believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language
and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the
Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these
bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and
geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell.
"E. Pluribus Unum" -- From many, one. In that historical reality, if
we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,' we will balkanize
America as surely as Kosovo."
"Next to last, I would place
all subjects off limits; make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult
of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century -
that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or
'xenophobe' halt discussion and debate. Having made America a
bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturism, having the
large foundations fund the! doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it
impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That
because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would
make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of
millions of them."
In the last minute of his speech,
Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said,.
"Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis's book "Mexifornia."
His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel
America. deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book."
There was no applause. A chilling fear
quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference Every
American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding
methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today.
Discussion is being suppressed.
Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and
national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures that practice female genital
mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing
into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America - take
note of California and other states - to date, ten million illegal aliens and
growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book "1984." In
that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building:
"War is peace," "Freedom is slavery," and "Ignorance
is strength."
Governor Lamm walked back to his
seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of
this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get
this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a
California wildfire and destroy everything in its path, especially The American
Dream.
SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2011
California's
Accelerating Demise
The end is
nearing, and it's not that far away anymore. Oh, make no mistake, California
will still be here, but very shortly, it won't be much like anything that
people who have lived here for awhile have known.
The culture, the quality of life,
pristine environment, and enviable public school systems are rapidly being
segregated into ever-shrinking areas of affluence.
Anyone who has read this blog knows
that the focus here is on illegal immigration.
Is the presence of people who are unlawfully in the country the only
thing that has led to the Golden State's desperate financial and demographic
situation, however? Clearly, no. There's been plenty of irresponsible spending
by California politicians that is, at most, only marginally related to the
millions of the undocumented who have set up house here.
Still, you can't escape the facts;
facts that are so plain and obvious that one doesn't need to hold an MBA degree
to see that much of California's economic ruin has resulted from nearly
unfettered unlawful immigration from Latin America. We're rapidly absorbing the
poorest and least educated that countries in that area of the world gladly send
north, and the bills for having done this are coming due. California's illegal
alien and anchor baby population is well over twice the size of any other
state's, and not surprisingly, our state's budget deficit is also over twice
the size of any other state's.
When you lack money, you borrow.
California certainly has, out the yin yang. In fact, California is so far in
debt that its credit rating is the lowest of all 50 states. And when you can't borrow anymore, you do
without. California is ...
Because we have been so busy
building public schools (among other things) to keep up with an exploding
Hispanic population, and repeatedly raising public school teachers'
compensation to convince educators to work in dreary academic conditions
surrounded by limited-English learners and street criminals, we essentially
stopped constructing prisons. Well the illegal alien children, and the offspring
of current and former illegal aliens, who now make up the bulk of public school
students here, have been graduating at rates below 50%.
Where does a person with little
education, who has been raised in a family where skirting laws is everyday conduct,
commonly wind up? You guessed it. Over half of the people in California jails
and prisons are current and former illegal aliens, and their children. In fact, we have so many illegals and anchor
babies that our "gray bar hotels" are stuffed. Jam-packed to the degree that the Supreme
Court recently ruled they violate 8th Amendment protections against cruel and
unusual punishment
OK, so just build more prisons,
right? Sure ... with what money? We already spent it on teachers, free public
school breakfasts and lunches, new grade school campuses, discounted college
tuition for illegal aliens, and prison guards who watch over our growing
population of people who didn't seem to benefit from the money we've been
laying out to educate/babysit them.
The bottom line: California will be
releasing tens of thousands of convicts because government officials don't have
any other choice.
Therefore, when we say the Golden State "won't be much
like anything that people who have lived here for awhile have known," that
isn't hyperbole or agenda motivated exaggeration. It's simply reality. The most
basic function of government is to protect people and property. California's
government increasingly can't because the money is all gone, and so are many of
the citizen taxpayers who never wanted any part of this grand liberal
immigration experiment and politically correct nonsense, to begin with.
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