This is a good article that correctly points out how CA has not reformed welfare, breeding more poverty. It also points the finger at poor immigrants that have no job skills or work ethic; wasting money on things like the train (instead of lowering taxes to create jobs); liberal land use refs that make real estate Sky-high; and the global warming scam that makes energy in CA cost 50% more than in other states.
Mehi Co.
Q: “Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?”
A: “Sacramento and local governments have spent massive amounts in the cause. Several state and municipal benefit programs overlap with one another; in some cases, individuals with incomes 200% above the poverty line receive benefits.”
They punish effort by taxing it to pay slackers who claim poverty to get sympathy and more money from the producers.
Self-answering headline.
California welfare IS the Liberals’ vision for America.
government spending is consumption expenditure. You do not make the economy as a whole wealthier by consuming wealth
If I ever end up so poor, I have to live on the street, I’m going somewhere with great weather. I’m also looking for freebies, and if I’m illegal, especially a criminal illegal, you can bet your bippie I’m going to California.
Sad. California used to be the envy of the world. Now - not so much.
Could it be that parts of CA are s***holes, or is it racist to say that?
Econ 101:
Rewarding (ie welfare) unwanted behavior (ie poverty), produces more of the behavior.
End the welfare state.
Face it they encourage people not to work (socialism), condone crime and love substance abuse.
Seems like a perfect article to unleash a Trump tweetstorm, no?
Maybe the reason libs are so obsessed with income inequality is that they’re surrounded by examples of it in every state they control, and not just a few countries as well.
When one looks at housing costs when defining poverty California will always lose. It costs a small fortune to live there
There are many parallels between the Californian and Federal problems. (1) A deeply entrenched Progressive bureaucracy (2) An overabundance of bureaucrat operatives (3) A recent history of Progressive Democrat and RINO Republican leadership (4) Third World morals in governance. The ‘Federal electorate’ finally rebelled giving us Trump but due to the massive ongoing in-migration of poverty, I see no chance of a similar solution in California.
Sh*tholes all over California...
It’s the poverty capital because it’s a place where you can make $100,000 and still struggle to pay the rent and your student loan.
I am from the (rural) East Coast. Was in San Diego recently. I simply couldn’t believe the number of homeless/addicts/mentally ill (ie. bums) around. Turn your head anywhere while at a shopping mall, strip mall, office complex, and you could easily count a few hanging about.
I wanted to walk to a nearby shopping area from my hotel in the early evening, but was warned not to “because of our homeless population” was the cliche I was given by the hotel staff.
Just another thing Californians have simply learned to accept, without question.
California’s becoming a shithold because ‘liberal elites’ are totalitarians at heart. In a few years they’ll be rounding up people and putting them in ovens.