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California is a living socialist experiment in that we are paying benefits for all who contribute very little. We have been acutely feeling the effects in the last five years as the balance is shifting from having enough contributors to offset the negative cash flows to subsidized health care, education, and the increase in prisoners in the California penal system; and it will grow worse each budget year.

The children of illegals are having children at a young age, and are not able to financially sustain them. Medi-Cal is picking up part of the tab, forcing hospitals to write-off massive financial losses, only offset by the number of patients with employer provided insurance. Employer paid insurance continues to grow in cost by 10-20% annually. Most employers have begun cost shifting their health insurance expense to their employees, and or restricting the types of coverage, effectively making their employees pay out of pocket.

Ironically, those who immigrated hear to work cheaply are being displaced those who arrived more recently, and are willing to work more cheaply. These cheap workers, particularly in the construction field, are displacing legal, tax paying residents, because they are paid under the table;no social security tax, no state income tax, and no workers comp insurance. These illegal workers get injured and show up in a hospital emergency room, where by law, they must be treated regardless of ability to pay, and again the healthcare expense shifts to the taxpayer.

Now think about this. With the dramatic increase in residents in California, particularly in So Cal, there is really no increase in infrastructure spending (Water, sewage, transportation, education) with much money being diverted away from the general fund to pay these other social expenses.

It comes down to this. California will quickly become a third world state with a shrinking number of haves paying increasingly more for the have-nots, with the socialist legislature forcing more of the haves out of the state by punitive taxes and fees. California has one last chance, and it requires:
1. Educating residents of the peril they face if things remain status quo.
2. Voting out our the Socialists in the Legislature
3. Creating a very noisy, public, and nasty battle against Washington DC to force their responsibility in protecting the border and changing immigration law to keep the country's resources for the legal citizens of the country.
4. Forcing the GOP to reduce the number of kangaroo judges on the 9th circuit court of appeals (something under consideration now)
5. Stirring up the populist sentiment that is deep seated in California and passing another proposition 187 like ballot initiative, like Arizona recently passed, restricting benefits to legal citizens.