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"It's Deja-vu all over again" in California


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So gov brown begged Trump for help, and in the same breath called him a fool, and then brown wonders why Trump didn't jump to give that failed state more free money.

Aside from California deciding they didnt feel like spending the money to fix that dam 12 years ago after an engineering survey talked about the much needed repairs, California is far too busy urging each other to go jump off the leftist cliff into economic annihilation.

Here's some of the junk the "legislatures" are working on:

 Leftists in the State Legislature are proposing providing in-state tuition for refugees, yet too many working class families cannot afford to send their kids to California colleges and universities.

These same legislative leftists have proposed a bill to use taxpayer money to fund beach vacations for the poor. AB 250, by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego), requires the California Coastal Conservancy, the state agency in charge of preserving California’s 840 miles of coastline, to develop a “Low Cost Overnight Accommodations Program” for the poor, because “visiting on the coast has become prohibitively expensive for many Californians.”

These same leftist lawmakers have a package of bills to provide lawyers and public defenders to illegal aliens facing deportation. One of the bills in the package requires taxpayers to pay for the legal defense of illegal aliens.

Another leftist proposal by Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Los Angeles), an admitted anchor baby, is a bill requiring voter approval of a border wall project “that would harm California’s environment, such as endangered species of wildlife and river watersheds, or California’s economy, through trade and tourism.”

Senators Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) and Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), members of the legislative LGBT Caucus, have proposed SB 179, “The Gender Recognition Act of 2017,” that will enable “more transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to obtain state-issued identity documents that accurately reflect their gender.” The reason? According to Sen. Weiner, “Our trans brothers and sisters are under attack in far too many parts of this country and this world.”

Sen. Atkins has also introduced SB 2 to create a permanent source of funding for low-income housing.

This legislative abuse of taxpayer money is a perfect example of how far left the California Legislature has moved, compared to the rest of the state and country. These bills also demonstrate that California legislators and politicians are fiddling in identity politics and nonsense laws while the state infrastructure is neglected, and now falling apart. As the Governor has struggled to balance the state budget due to the state’s massive debt and unfunded pension liabilities, his administration has cut infrastructure funding, and stolen local revenues from cities and counties.

There is no governing taking place in the California Legislature or from the governor. It’s all a game to them; they want to hold elected office, but don’t want any responsibility.

 

Who will Jerry Brown blame for the Oroville Dam breech? I’m sure it’s George Bush’s fault. Many blame ballot box budgeting, and claim ballot initiatives have made it harder to raise money for infrastructure. But that’s just not true.

Ed Ring with the California Policy Center explains what’s really behind the problem:

Powerful environmentalist organizations, often receiving government funds, provide the moral cover for neglect. There isn’t a road, a bridge, a power plant, a port upgrade, new housing, a water treatment plant—not one scratch in the ground that isn’t bitterly contested by the environmentalist lobby.

Many corporate special interests benefit from neglect. Corporations who own existing sources of supply can charge higher prices and generate higher profits. Utilities are the obvious examples of this—ever since “decoupling” legislation was passed in California, the only way utilities can generate higher profits is to raise unit costs, since unit output and profit percentages are fixed by law. So if water costs $2.00 per CCU instead of $0.25, or if electricity costs $0.50 per KWH instead of $0.05, utility companies make a killing for their shareholders.

Public sector unions also benefit from infrastructure neglect. Taxpayer funds that ought to be paying to construct and upgrade roads and bridges end up being allocated instead to pay government workers higher salaries and fund generous pensions.

Instead of cutting excessive spending areas, anticipate Gov. Jerry Brown will propose another emergency “one time tax increase” ballot initiative, which will turn into a permanent tax increase, followed by annual proposed tax increases to address the crumbling streets, roads and highways, water storage infrastructure, water management, bridges, storm water and wastewater management, and flood protection.

 

California is so bloated, public works projects cost over twice than what they cost anywhere else in the US, and three time more than in any other country.

The abject stupidity is almost beyond comprehension...

 

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They were already given millions ti fix one or both of these dams and yet repairs were not done. Cut pentions now, unsustainable. California Teachers pentions alone grow by 22 million a day.

By 2043 when the debt comes due, the shortfall will reach 600 billion. 

Now, count in the rest of the unions. Bam. Cut this cr@$«¿« out NOW.

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OH, DAM ! Excellent post, DM....

sounds like Kalifornia's own elitist illuminati tools that are in seats of power are

doing EXACTLY what ho'bummer and his D.C. ;think-tank' org wanna do to OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY !

 

Doesn't seem to matter to them that it's strangling itself.... it's the very MURDER / SUICIDE of that State ! 

 

They say "as goes Kalifornia, so goes the rest of the Country.."

MAY GOD IN HIS WISDOM IN HEAVEN ABOVE SPARE OUR REPUBLIC THAT TRAGEDY !

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2 hours ago, SgtFuryUSCZ said:

 

Doesn't seem to matter to them that it's strangling itself.... it's the very MURDER / SUICIDE of that State ! 

 

They say "as goes Kalifornia, so goes the rest of the Country.."

MAY GOD IN HIS WISDOM IN HEAVEN ABOVE SPARE OUR REPUBLIC THAT TRAGEDY !

At one time they were trend setters, but the hollyweird heyday is long gone.

Got out of the Army at Ft. Ord, north CA, mid 70's.

Spent a stupid amount of time surfing, taking advantage of all those mid-west girls, getting sand rash's in the most bizarre places..then the 80's came, and with it the gangs, drugs, violence, and liberal stupidity.

As soon as they quit playing The Ventures on the radio it all fell apart.... 

 

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WAYyyyy cool ! 

One if us spent duty time in San Clemente (Nixon, Rebozo, et al...  ;)) back in 70's, too !

San Onofre pier and Huntington both saw this 'ol gal's action on the long board brought CONUS from Panama .

Yachting out of Dana Point Marina, too.  MidWeek trips to Catalina....  crazy times those !

Thanks for the flashback !

Certainly DO understand about the timeline collapse... been there, saw that.... too bad the winds of change are such a horror.

It used to be awesome .

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