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Is California the welfare capital?
San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | July 28, 2012 | Michael Gardner

Posted on 07/28/2012 6:17:23 PM PDT by South40

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To: easternsky

As Rush said the other day, it doesn’t LOOK much different from how it looked thirty years ago. Except in the central valley where they rationing the water.The middle class is slipping away, but that is a slow process, and the ruin won’t be evident for another decade or more, at the present rate. California is less the golden state than the gilded state.


21 posted on 07/28/2012 7:38:44 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: easternsky

As Rush said the other day, it doesn’t LOOK much different from how it looked thirty years ago. Except in the central valley where they rationing the water.The middle class is slipping away, but that is a slow process, and the ruin won’t be evident for another decade or more, at the present rate. California is less the golden state than the gilded state.


22 posted on 07/28/2012 7:39:07 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: ansel12

When I was first in New York City forty years ago, there were lots of southern blacks who had recently arrived.


23 posted on 07/28/2012 7:41:57 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: South40
26 million on food stamps, 8 million on disability, 22 million federal employees, 1 million in the military , 300 thousand California state employees, 600 thousand California teachers, 300 thousand retired California teachers, 100 billion high speed rail to no where and 12 - 20 million illegals. Paying for all this is a quagmire that can not be solved. The whole system is going to fail hard and ugly . You do not want to be anywhere near California when this blows up.

Trying to get out of here just got harder because they passed legislation to prevent banks from kicking the deadbeat out of their foreclosed homes. They estimate that it will cost the banks 30 k in legal fees and the deadbeats can live in the house for several years without making a payment. No one will want to lend money here for mortgages.

25 posted on 07/28/2012 7:56:01 PM PDT by pterional
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To: ansel12

It certainly is a lie, Somalis in Georgia actually did research to find the next best state in terms of welfare to migrate to, and moved to Lewiston Maine, overwhelming its resources. They actually moved from a temperate-climate state to a cold one in order to further their parasitic and violent lifestyle. No doubt they’ll be researching their next host once they kill their present one.


26 posted on 07/28/2012 7:58:28 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: RobbyS
No it really does, less fruit and vegetable crops, more vineyards, lots of empty buildings, and all cities have a little Tijuana, with all the buildings painted, bright oranges, yellows greens and red, thats just for starters, lots of fertile farm land turned in to retail, not a pretty sight. Spanish billboards, Graffiti everywhere, even on freeway overpasses. Public restrooms in both languages, on and on.
27 posted on 07/28/2012 8:00:53 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: ansel12
hell... they come to NY all the way from PR!!!
28 posted on 07/28/2012 8:20:38 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: pterional

Banks are still lending, because they are selling the mortgage s to Freddie and Fannie. And they don’t care about the foreclosure problems.
In fact..foreclosures are going so slow that it is hard to find houses to buy in some neighborhoods(the ones that still have good demographics and schools). People with credit and money snap up the decent properties.


29 posted on 07/28/2012 8:48:23 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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I rarely differ with Rush, but CA does look a lot different now than 30 years ago. We were gone from the state most of that time..while we owned a house here, but came back every year and watched the evolution. We now have a hispanic crowd dominating our little local park...some of the Malls are mainly hispanic customers. My regular check ups at a SoCal hospital has turned into a zoo with mostly hispanic’s crowding the facility. Maybe the Country Clubs haven’t changed, but for the average middle class..the state is now half third world.


30 posted on 07/28/2012 9:18:09 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: RobbyS

I rarely differ with Rush, but CA does look a lot different now than 30 years ago. We were gone from the state most of that time..while we owned a house here, but came back every year and watched the evolution. We now have a hispanic crowd dominating our little local park...some of the Malls are mainly hispanic customers. My regular check ups at a SoCal hospital has turned into a zoo with mostly hispanic’s crowding the facility. Maybe the Country Clubs haven’t changed, but for the average middle class..the state is now half third world.


31 posted on 07/28/2012 9:18:09 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Chode
hell... they come to NY all the way from PR!!!

At least they aren't breaking any laws simply by coming, which is more than can be said for criminal Mexicans.

32 posted on 07/28/2012 9:28:10 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Free people, when presented only with evil choices, create other choices.(EternalVigilance))
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To: Graybeard58
illegal or not it proves the lie that the article says that people will not travel for welfare, but that is a bald faced lie.

and still wastes my hard earned money

33 posted on 07/28/2012 9:41:51 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Oldexpat

Well, Ruch is definitely part of the country club set. Plus he lived in Sacramento. Myself I can tell you that LAX really looks rundown compared with the way it looked in 1973. Compare it with the new Hong Kong airport? dumpy.


34 posted on 07/29/2012 11:56:13 AM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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