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Under Republican rule, California established the best universities, best agriculture, best movie industry, best industrial complex in the world and now the Demorats are squandering it other than the tech industry which spins off of the universities Republicans established. Cali will be fine as long as they keep their hold on the tech industry but if they lose that, they are in big big trouble.
Under Republican rule, California established the best universities, best agriculture, best movie industry, best industrial complex in the world and now the Demorats are squandering it other than the tech industry which spins off of the universities Republicans established. Cali will be fine as long as they keep their hold on the tech industry but if they lose that, they are in big big trouble.
Tech industry of course is strong in CA , but even techies are having trouble affording housing in the Bay Area with the housing prices .
Just because an industry has been strong somewhere for a while doesn't mean it will be like that forever .
Not saying CA will lose their tech industry but it's never good to get too comfortable .
Detroit was once the richest city in the nation per capita .
Tech industry of course is strong in CA , but even techies are having trouble affording housing in the Bay Area with the housing prices .
Just because an industry has been strong somewhere for a while doesn't mean it will be like that forever .
Not saying CA will lose their tech industry but it's never good to get too comfortable .
Detroit was once the richest city in the nation per capita .
My son (Software Engineer) routinely gets offers from Google and Apple to work in Silicon Valley but he stays in Seattle because of the housing cost and taxes of Cali. But to be fair, Silicon Valley still dominates the tech industry and no serious challengers have shown up. However, the Hollywood movie industry is getting challenged.
If you were homeless, where would you rather live, Idaho or California? It's comfortable here in Southern California - - even the homeless know that. Meanwhile, the homeless in Kentucky and Mississippi aren't too far away from the average incomes in those states.
If you were homeless, where would you rather live, Idaho or California? It's comfortable here in Southern California - - even the homeless know that. Meanwhile, the homeless in Kentucky and Mississippi aren't too far away from the average incomes in those states.
Sure but it's more than the homeless that give Ca designation as the top poverty rate im sure.
California is a good look at what the nation as a whole will look like in another 10-20 years, and yeah it's not necessarily a pretty outcome. Very wealthy but also pretty high poverty and then the cost of living which makes it a horrible place to live for those who are near poverty.
From a California resident viewpoint, San Francisco in particular, this whole area is far from the Utopia many Liberals falsely claim. It is also true the shouts and screams from the Left typically coincide with a period of their own failed policies. Take San Francisco, a city where the income gap is glaringly disturbing. In fact , poverty and homelessness is such a major problem, the Park Police patrol the city parks almost on a 24/7 basis now. In every corner, with enough space for a sleeping bag, there are people to be found. Though not much information coming out of City Govt. , they seem to be more piqued when there is word of a protest downtown , maybe a photo op and a time to get to know your fellow Liberals as all design Protest signs together. All the while, homeless people line up for hours for the few available beds at a shelter.
The biggest problem Ca. is facing is public opinion. This is a State with superficial values. Bumper sticker or Protest sign politics at it's finest. In spite of a free living and open minded appearance, many Californians are as conservative as you will find anywhere. The best investment conversations seem to go very well with that organic free trade latte at the trendy coffeehouse on the corner. Then when the sense of guilt of social conscience rises, show your "real" Liberal credentials by showing the selfie taken at the march over the weekend. All appearance and it must be added, from a SF resident for over 20 years, many many of the Liberal SJW's are as fake and insincere as you will ever meet. Far outnumbering the few well meaning souls in the bunch.
Cities like San Francisco would need to review itself. You have a city full of millionaires and yet social problems like homelessness, lack of affordable housing, drug addiction (heroin) and lack of jobs abound. Get those young SJW wannabes off their vain perches and super cushy jobs and make their tax dollars pay for the privilege of living here. The reality is such that the greatest uptick in homelessness and poverty in SF came about with the tech boom of the last 10-15years. I am sure the well heeled SF tech community could manage to pay a little extra in taxes to directly help those less fortunate in the community. Or, would they much prefer to set some more money aside for that fancy investment plan from their banker and get together with the gang for a protest sign design party while sipping their $6 organic lattes.
You need to have deep pockets-- deeper than the Pacific in order to live in California. Even if you made a good income, you'll lose alot of it because taxes are the highest in the nation.
No doubt, you’ve probably caught this or a similar phrase in your Web surfing, your email box and your casual discussions. It is the conversation-ender du jour. Don’t like the election results and the policies that follow? Deride them as proof America is “becoming California.” Don’t like a bill moving through your legislature? Cite it as more evidence your state is “turning into California.” Don’t like what Congress is doing on any given day? Write a screed bewailing America “turning into California.”
As with most of the right’s facile slogans that get repeated ad nauseam, this one isn’t some representation of spontaneous grass-roots sentiment. It is instead a commodified product — a prepackaged talking point carefully constructed by the conservative movement’s media machine for maximum repetition among that movement’s dittoheads.
The first thing to say in response to this is to say nothing at all, and instead just laugh. That’s because if you’ve ever driven across America, you know that after three decades of conservative economic policies, vast swaths of the red-state heartland now look like a testing ground for neutron bombs, with crumbling buildings and faded billboards the haunting reminders of glory days long since passed. Yet, somehow, much of the vitriol aimed at California tends to come from this expanse, as if things are so much better in bumble**** than they are in the Golden State.
That’s why at one level the whole talking point is funny, and why there are few things more LMFAO-worthy than getting an email from someone in Craphole, USA, ripping on California......
Costs a lot of money to prop up the red states. California is one of few states that has a net positive flow of cash to the federal gov't. South Carolina on the other hand gets back $8 from the feds in aid for every $1 they pay in federal tax.
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