Posted on 01/31/2024 5:44:20 AM PST by Navy Patriot
t takes a kind of malignant genius to destroy California, but the state’s ruling elites are well on their way to assure its decline. If the downward spiral continues, it will stand as a testament to the insane variety of progressive policies that have driven middle and working class people, as well as numerous companies, out of the state.
No place on earth came into this century with more going for it than California. It is a naturally beautiful state, home to some of the world’s mildest climates, enormously fertile both in its land and its people. It has long been the epicenter of technology, entertainment and space exploration: the last great Western dominated industries.
Yet today California suffers among the US’ highest rates of unemployment, the highest percent living poverty and massive net outmigration. The causes here are manifold, but they start with climate policy. Ever since Jerry Brown returned to office in 2011, the state has made climate policy not just a priority, but an obsession. Virtually every major state initiative from housing and energy to economic growth hinges around climate catastrophism and the need for California to lead the battle to stop it.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Not an idiot. Evil
Wat do you expect, he’s Pelosi’s nephew.
Gavin’s only in it for his small rich group. He’s not calling the shots—others are. he is our own Zelenskyy without the piano playing skills.
Correct. And he’s highly dyslexic, and so cannot quickly process and then effectively communicate complicated information. This alone should cause people to vote for someone else to lead the most powerful military on the planet, but it won’t (I believe he will be our next president).
In 50 years, pols like Newsom have destroyed my home state - turning it from a paradise into a Commie-run welfare state and sewer.
We’ve lost ≈ 500,000 people over the past few years who have fled high taxes, disorganization and crime.
Our beautiful cities have turned to s*** with feces and needles littering the sidewalks, along with raging drug-addled and mentally ill.
I’m only glad my dad isn’t here to see what has happened.
California became unsalvageable long before newsome ever came on the scene.
its chicken crap too.
i will never forget him smiling and giggling as he stood on the smoldering ashes of someone's home/property after our forest fires trying to score political points.
spit.
One of the luckiest incidents in my life was to have been laid off from Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in Sunnyvale, CA in 1994. It resulted in a relocation to Amherst, NH an the sale of my house in Morgan Hill, CA the same year.
I lived in California for a year in 1951-1952, again for 3 months in 1970, and finally for 14-years in 1980-1994.
So grateful to have experienced some good times and even more grateful to be completely disconnected.
These effing criminals/globalist never had any intention of securing our borders.
No doubt about it! FGN
I suspect you are correct, however, consider, it was Newsom’s relatives that made Calipornia unsalvageable.
Yup, Newsome is not the cause, he’s the effect.
Only in a place that is already a lost cause could someone so devoid of substance be elected governor.
As the article points out, it isn’t so much how many people are leaving as who those people are. War on the middle class is nothing new, proggies have been pimping that since Marx had his prolonged fever dream. Now it’s a successful war.
Good point!
the only “unsalvageable” state is Texas, Texas is toast
Democrats destroy everything they touch.
True, one would hope that they would touch themselves more.
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