California: The New Feudal State (unemployment, interstates, wage, salaries)
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You cons are the ones who want to cut benefits, freeze wages, and increase taxes on the poor. How does that help them exactly?
Well take a look at what liberal California actually did.
They are not better off due to liberal policies that were put in place over the course of decades.
The wage and income gap grew larger because of it.
Well take a look at what liberal California actually did.
They are not better off due to liberal policies that were put in place over the course of decades.
The wage and income gap grew larger because of it.
What you DID did not help them.
So now what ?
So you're saying it's a bad thing that California has huge numbers of extremely wealthy people.
These attacks on CA are so stupid. Yes the state is pretty unequal but that's not because of the states progressive policies. The state would be in WORSE shape without them. The financial crash of 07-08 made the situation worse for CA.
Los Angeles is very unequal with I believe 12% unemployment! Its rich or poor but since living here I've noticed that for those stats I'm surprised the city hasn't turned into a hellfire mad max type of place with violence and extremely high crime like Detroit or Camden.
It's because LA provides a lot of assistance to people and there many agencies to help alleviate unemployment, health issues and housing.
Without those things this place would be a complete disaster.
What really grinds my gears is that conservatives have created this fake showdown match between TX and CA. It's as though Texas has beaten the state as far as sound economic policy when there's more to it than that. Texas is a unique state with ample flat land ripe for development, it experienced a massive population boom and has a very diverse economy with several sectors from ports, oil, energy, real estate, construction, medical, etc. These are things that can't really be replicated. Also Texas has no social safety net quite the size of CA so it spends less on health, education, social services and infrastructure than CA which means it takes in less in taxes. But Texas is one if the worst states for a multitude of things concerning quality of life; health, educational spending, social services.
I just don't get why CA is the whipping boy against progressive policies? The state is still miles apart better than states that are in an upswing like Texas. It's just that conservatives who attack are just looking for their slice of the economic pie and could care less about pitching in to provide for their states and fellow residents quality of life.
Desertdetroiter is right on point. The people attacking CA proly live in crap states like Mississippi or Louisiana where the quality of life is pi$ $ poor. California is still a jewel of a state and is bar far the most innovative creative eclectic and beautiful state. By a mile!
Texas has little room to brag, honestly speaking. With the exception of Austin, and maybe San Antonio and a very few other places, it is mostly a backwards, myopic, and parochial sinkhole. It has a crappy educational system, poor paying jobs and an abysmal environmental record. I spent over half my life there and couldn't wait to leave. Some parts of Texas are bearable, but these are few and far between.
Los Angeles is very unequal with I believe 12% unemployment!
The whole income inequality issue is playing out in microcosm here in San Francisco too, though our unemployment rate is somewhere around 5.5% these days. Much of the middle class has already fled to more affordable suburbs; among the policies enabling the few remaining middle-income earners to stay here is rent control, which of course is anathema to conservatives. Getting rid of it might help to tame the wildly overinflated housing market in the long term, but in the short term it would force what's left of SF's middle class to leave The City -- thus creating more income inequality.
I'm still trying to figure out this anti California hatred by these flyover country conservatives in craphole states.
Guess I'd be angry too if I was stuck in Oklahoma or Mississippi. Lol
I'm the OP and I'm from the metro NY area.
So nice try.
Btw, why all the bigotry towards other states?
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