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2 minutes ago, Nolebull813 said:

Edit for snowflakes 

The blue states policies will never make sense to anyone.....i have no idea how anyone can listen to any Democrat and go yep thats what I want. The only thing better than CA being on fire is if in the middle the big earthquake hit and took their state government to the bottom of the Pacific 

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3 minutes ago, HSFBfan said:

The blue states policies will never make sense to anyone.....i have no idea how anyone can listen to any Democrat and go yep thats what I want. The only thing better than CA being on fire is if in the middle the big earthquake hit and took their state government to the bottom of the Pacific 

True! I wish they were their own country. The one good thing about their fucked up way of thinking is it attracts all the illegals, gays and the rest of the undesirables to move there. 

 

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More California insanity.  SF wants to prevent companies in the city from giving free lunch in their cafeterias so as to not compete with the restaurants in the city.  Seriously.  (Of course, you would be more willing to go out for lunch if you did not have to step over poop).

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1 hour ago, HSFBfan said:

The blue states policies will never make sense to anyone.....i have no idea how anyone can listen to any Democrat and go yep thats what I want. The only thing better than CA being on fire is if in the middle the big earthquake hit and took their state government to the bottom of the Pacific 

Just a fyi moment- fires don't care about politics and people have been killed.

But carry on with whatever. 

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6 hours ago, Nolebull813 said:

It is now a more severe crime to use a plastic straw in California than it is to knowingly infect someone with HIV/AIDS. 

This is the reason the electoral college is sooooooo important to the country now more than ever!! 

stop stealing michael knowles' jokes...

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8 hours ago, World Citizen said:

Just a fyi moment- fires don't care about politics and people have been killed.

But carry on with whatever. 

I found it pretty repulsive that some of these dolts were making a joke out of people losing property and possibly life as a result of the fires.

It is not difficult to determine the character of some of the nitwits that post here. 

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8 minutes ago, DarterBlue said:

I found it pretty repulsive that some of these dolts were making a joke out of people losing property and possibly life as a result of the fires.

It is not difficult to determine the character of some of the nitwits that post here. 

Nothing funny about wildfires.

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It's like California doesn't have actual serious problems to deal with.

Like retarded voters. maybe?

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-road-map-poverty-report-20180729-story.html

Millions of Californians are poor, and they don't always live where you'd expect

In a state often cited as home to scores of billionaires, almost 4 in every 10 residents are living at or near the poverty line...

Researchers from PPIC and Stanford University, who believe federal poverty guidelines fail to capture true hardship in the state, adjusted their criteria to include things like the cost of living. When they did two counties stood out: Los Angeles and Santa Cruz, each with a roughly 24% poverty rate. Santa Barbara County isn’t far behind, nor is San Francisco.

Almost 46% of California’s children were at or near the threshold of poverty in 2016. 

The research team calculated poverty statistics for the state’s 120 legislative districts and 53 congressional districts. Assembly districts, the smallest of the jurisdictions, almost all had poverty rates above 16% of the population except for some affluent suburbs and elite coastal communities. Congressional districts from the edges of Silicon Valley down to Southern California have poverty rates above 20%. And in each of three state Senate districts drawn through the heart of Los Angeles, roughly one-third of residents live in poverty, with some families of four struggling to survive on less than $28,000 a year.

As the new data makes clear, poverty in the state is everywhere and is hardly going away.

 

 

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https://www.city-journal.org/html/california-economy-16076.html

The Hollowing-Out of the California Dream

 

This is where the left would have us go....


 

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California, suggests gubernatorial candidate and environmental activist Michael Shellenberger, is not “the most progressive state” but “the most racist” one. Chapman University reports that 28 percent of California’s blacks are impoverished, compared with 22 percent nationally. Fully one-third of California Latinos—now the state’s largest ethnic group—live in poverty, compared with 21 percent outside the state. Half of Latino households earn under $50,000 annually, which, in a high-cost state, means that they barely make enough to make ends meet. Over two-thirds of non-citizen Latinos, the group most loudly defended by the state’s progressive leadership, live at or below the poverty line, according to a recent United Way study.

Even as incomes soared in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco after 2010, wages for African-Americans and Latinos in the Bay Area declined. The shift of employment from industrial to software industries, as well as the extraordinary presence—as much as 40 percent—of noncitizens in the tech industry, has meant fewer opportunities for assemblers and other blue-collar workers. Many nonwhite Americans labor in the service sector as security guards or janitors, making about $25,000 annually, working for contractors who offer no job security and only limited benefits. In high-priced Silicon Valley, these are essentially poverty wages. Some workers live in their cars, converted garages, or even on the streets, largely ignored by California’s famously enlightened oligarchs.

The Giving Code, which reports on charitable trends among the ultra-rich, found that between 2006 and 2013, 93 percent of all private foundation-giving in Silicon Valley went to causes outside of Silicon Valley. Better to be a whale, or a distressed child in Africa or Central America, than a worker living in his car outside Google headquarters.

African-Americans do far better, in terms of income and homeownership, in places like Dallas-Fort Worth or greater Houston than in socially enlightened locales such as Los Angeles or San Francisco. Houston and Dallas boast black homeownership rates of 40 to 50 percent; in deep blue but much costlier Los Angeles and New York, the rate is about 10 percentage points lower.

Once a model of educational success, California now ranks 36th in the country in educational performance, according to a 2018 Education Weekreport. The state does have a strong sector of “gold and silver” public schools, mostly located in wealthy suburban locations such as Orange County, the interior East Bay, and across the San Francisco Peninsula. But the performance of schools in heavily minority, working-class areas is scandalously poor. The state’s powerful teachers’ union and the Democratic legislature have added $31.2 billion since 2013 in new school funding, but California’s poor students ranked 49th on National Assessment of Education Progress tests. In Silicon Valley, half of local public school students, and barely one in five blacks or Latinos, are proficient in basic math.

High-poverty schools are so poorly run that disruptions from students and administrative interruptions, according to a UCLA study, account for 30 minutes a day of class time. Teachers in these schools often promote “progressive values,” spending much of their time, according to one writer, “discussing community problems and societal inequities.” Other priorities include transgender and other gender-relatededucation, from which parents, in some school districts, cannot opt out. This ideological instruction is doing little for minority youngsters. San Francisco, which the nonprofit journalism site Calmatters refers to as “a progressive enclave and beacon for technological innovation,” also had “the lowest black student achievement of any county in California,” as well as the highest gap between black and white scores.

 California’s economy is clearly weakening, as companies and people move elsewhere. Texas and other states are now experiencing faster GDP growth than the Golden State. Perhaps more telling, the latest BEA numbers suggest that California—which created barely 800 jobs last month—is now experiencing far lower income growth than the national average, and scarcely half that of Texas, Colorado, Michigan, Arizona, Missouri, or Florida. Out-migration of skilled and younger workers, reacting to long commutes and high prices, seems to be accelerating, both in Southern California and the Bay Area.


 

 

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