THROUGH CALIFORNIA’S NEVER-ENDING BOOM AND BUST CYCLE THE STATE HAS EXPANDED
THE LA RAZA “The race” mexican welfare state as legals flee this state’s high taxes.
in reality, put aside the smoke and mirrors
accounting and california is as close to being bankrupt as any state in the
union.
add los angeles’ to the numbers and we
have the reality of what happens when the democrats create a sanctuary of
corruption and welfare for illegals
California’s overall state finances are also among the worst in the nation,
according to TIA.
“California’s
state officials have made repeated financial decisions that have left the state
with a debt burden of $275 billion. That burden equates to $21,800 for every
state taxpayer. California’s financial problems stem mostly from unfunded
retirement obligations that have accumulated over the years,” TIA said in a
recent analysis.
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.
CalPERS Ignores Rep.
Banks’s Questions on CIO’s Links to China’s Thousand Talents Spying
BY
WASHINGTON—California
Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) officials failed to answer a
congressman’s questions about its chief investment officer’s (CIO) links to a
Chinese program the FBI says is a spy tool.
“CalPERS
failed to answer two fundamental questions raised in my letter to Governor
[Gavin] Newsom,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told The Epoch Times on Feb. 21.
Banks was
referring to his Feb. 12 letter to
Newsom concerning CalPERS CIO Yu Ben Meng’s “long cozy” relationship with the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“First
question: Is Mr. Meng a member of the Thousand Talents Program, something the
FBI called a ‘non-traditional espionage program?’
“Second
question: Since Meng came back as Chief Investment Officer of CalPERS, has
CalPERS invested in companies that are affiliated with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army?”
The Indiana
Republican also said he wants “clarification from Mr. Meng about what he meant
when he told the Chinese Communist rag People’s Daily that his ‘roots were in
China,’ and why he said that if he got ‘an opportunity to serve the motherland,
such responsibility and honor cannot be compared to anything.’”
Banks said
CalPERS’ massive investments in China were estimated in 2018 to be $3.1 billion
in at least 172 Chinese firms. He also noted that Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo recently told a meeting of the nation’s governors that included Newsom
that CalPERS “is invested in companies that supply the People’s Liberation Army
(PLA) that put our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines at risk.”
Banks further said in his letter that “CalPERS holds shares of China
Communications Construction Co. (CCCC), which has constructed PLA naval bases
in the South China Sea, and in China Shipbuilding Industry Corp., a state-owned
enterprise, and the largest manufacturer of Chinese naval ships.”
CalPERS is the
largest defined-benefit public employee pension program in the United States,
claiming an estimated $400 billion in assets managed on behalf of more than 2
million workers, retirees, and other beneficiaries.
As a defined
benefit program, CalPERS promises pensions equal to a certain percentage of a
retired California public employee’s salary. Most corporate and government
pensions are based on defined contributions by the employee, with the level of
benefits then determined by the return on investment of the contributions.
Marcie Frost,
CalPERS’ chief executive officer, hired Meng in September 2018. She said in a Feb. 20 response to
Banks that “CalPERS holds $200 billion in stocks from companies based in nearly
50 countries, including the United States. Approximately 1% of our total fund
is invested in Chinese companies and passively managed through our indexed
public equity portfolio.”
Firms in those
portfolios are selected by index managers, not CalPERS, she noted, and she said
her program doesn’t invest in any foreign companies that aren’t approved by the
U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC).
Frost, who
called Banks’ claims “baseless accusations,” said CalPERS “has a duty to seek
returns in the market sufficient to meet the pension obligations to its
beneficiaries, not to promote a policy agenda of any persuasion through its
investment strategy.”
A spokesman
for Banks said his office has received no response from Newsom. Two members of the CalPERS 13-member governing
board are appointed by Newsom, with one jointly named by the Speaker of the
California Assembly and the state Senate’s rules committee.
Newsom also
chooses two individuals—the director of California’s Department of Human
Resources and an individual from the State Personnel Board—who are ex-officio
board members.
CalPERS’
spokesmen didn’t respond to a request by The Epoch Times for comment.
The pension
program has funded only 67 percent
of its promised benefits, according to calculations based on public reports by Truth-in-Accounting (TIA), a Chicago-based
nonprofit that advocates for greater transparency and accountability in
government at all levels.
CalPERS’
managers do make some investment decisions based on political considerations. A
2017 report by the American Council on Capital Formation (ACCF) observed that
CalPERS plunged from a $2.9 billion asset surplus in 2007 to a $138 billion
deficit.
The report
attributed the plunge to the “tendency on the part of CalPERS management to
make investment decisions based on political, social, and environmental causes
rather than factors that boost returns and maximize fund performance.
“The ACCF report finds
that four of the nine worst-performing funds in the CalPERS portfolio as
of March 31, 2017, focused on supporting Environment, Social and
Governance (ESG) ventures. None of the system’s 25 top-performing funds was
ESG-focused.”
CalPERS was
also among signers representing
$4.8 trillion in assets of a 2018 letter to gunmakers encouraging them to
change their business practices according to an agreed-upon set of principles.
California’s
overall state finances are also among the worst in the nation,
according to TIA.
“California’s
state officials have made repeated financial decisions that have left the state
with a debt burden of $275 billion. That burden equates to $21,800 for every
state taxpayer. California’s financial problems stem mostly from unfunded
retirement obligations that have accumulated over the years,” TIA said in a
recent analysis.
Contact Mark Tapscott at
Mark.Tapscott@epochtimes.nyc
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.
“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.”
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.
CALIFORNIA:
AMERICA'S FIRST FAILED STATE
By Frosty Wooldridge
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
America builds the La Raza
“The Race” Mexican welfare state
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S.
Taxpayers a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S LA RAZA WELFARE
STATE ON OUR BACKS… Not one Legal voted for it!
Who's coming in and getting that
instant customer service legal immigrants don't get? Well, people like Mirian
Zelaya Gomez, a single mom with two kids and a fondness for Instagram
luxury-life glamour shots who got her name in the news
as "Lady Frijoles," the Honduran caravan migrant who
disdained donated Mexican food in Tijuana, and who told the press she was
migrating to the states to get free medical care for her kids. She's
since been arrested for
assaulting a
relative who had given her housing in Dallas.
MEXIFORNIA: Where La Raza Loots First
and by Invitation of the Democrat Party!
Where To Go When Your Local Emergency Room
Goes Bankrupt?"
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During the past ten years 84 California
hospitals have declared bankruptcy and closed their Emergency Rooms
forever. Financially crippled by
legislative and judicial mandates to treat illegal aliens have bankrupted
hospitals! In 2010, in Los Angeles
County alone, over 2 million illegal aliens recorded visits to county emergency
rooms for both routine and emergency care.
Per official figures, the cost is $1,000 dollars for every taxpayer in
Los Angeles County.
OTHER FACTS ON MEXICO’S
SECOND LARGEST CITY OF LOS ANGELES:
93% OF THE MURDERS ARE BY
MEXICANS.
THE TAX-FREE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY IS ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION YEARLY.
Los Angeles County Pays
Over a Billion in Welfare to Illegal Aliens Over Two Years
In 2015 and 2016, Los Angeles County paid
nearly $1.3 billion in welfare funds to illegal aliens and their families. That
figure amounts to 25 percent of the total spent on the county’s entire needy
population, according to Fox News.
The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other
state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in
California, Pew reported.
Approximately a quarter of California’s 4 million illegal immigrants
reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows illegal immigrant parents with
children born in the United States to seek welfare and food stamp benefits.
The welfare benefits data acquired by Fox News comes from the Los
Angeles County Department of Public Social Services and shows welfare and food
stamp costs for the county’s entire population were $3.1 billion in 2015, $2.9
billion in 2016.
The data also shows that during the first five months of 2017, more than
60,000 families received a total of $181 million.
Over 58,000 families received a total of $602 million in benefits in
2015 and more than 64,000 families received a total of $675 million in 2016.
Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation senior
fellow who studies poverty and illegal immigration, told Fox the costs represent “the tip of
the iceberg.”
“They get $3 in benefits for every $1 they spend,” Rector said. It can
cost the government a total of $24,000 per year per family to pay for things
like education, police, fire, medical, and subsidized housing.
In February of 2019, the Los Angeles city council signed a resolution
making it a sanctuary city. The resolution did not provide any new legal
protections to their immigrants, but instead solidified existing policies.
In October 2017, former California governor
Jerry Brown signed SB 54 into law. This bill made
California, in Brown’s own words, a “sanctuary state.” The Justice
Department filed a lawsuit against the State of California over the law. A
federal judge dismissed that suit in July. SB 54 took effect on Jan.
1, 2018.
According to Center for
Immigration Studies, “The new law
does many things: It forbids all localities from cooperating with ICE detainer
notices, it bars any law enforcement officer from participating in the
popular 287(g) program, and it prevents state and local police
from inquiring about individuals’ immigration status.”
Some counties in California have protested its implementation and joined
the Trump administration’s lawsuit against the state.
California’s campaign to provide public services to illegal immigrants
did not end with the exit of Jerry Brown. His successor, Gavin Newsom, is
just as focused as Brown in funding programs for illegal residents at the
expense of California taxpayers.
California’s budget earmarks millions of dollars annually to the One
California program, which provides free legal assistance to all aliens,
including those facing deportation, and makes California’s public universities
easier for illegal-alien students to attend.
According to the Fiscal Burden of Illegal
Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2017 report, for the estimated 12.5 million illegal
immigrants living in the country, the resulting cost is a $116
billion burden on the national economy and taxpayers each year, after
deducting the $19 billion in taxes paid by some of those illegal immigrants.
BLOG: MOST FIGURES PUT THE NUMBER OF
ILLEGALS IN THE U.S. AT ABOUT 40 MILLION. WHEN THESE PEOPLE ARE HANDED AMNESTY,
THEY ARE LEGALLY ENTITLED TO BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILY EFFECTIVELY
LEAVING MEXICO DESERTED.
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that more than 22 million
non-citizens now live in the United States.
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