In France they rioted over a 24cent a gallon gas tax increase. In Belgium they Are rioting over open borders allowing rapists, terrorists and murderers into their country. In California, Sacramento Democrats approved cap and trade, a 72 cent a gallon gas tax increase, after SB 1—a total of 25 cent gas tax increase along with a $150 increase in vehicle fees and permits. SB 54 passed by the Democrats allows terrorists, sex traffickers, murderers into our State AND forced law enforcement to protect them against arrest by ICE!
“Quicker than one can say “Call Bekins”, mature High tech start ups are quietly relocating their headquarters to places where middle management employees can afford to own a home and State government does not treat them like white trash.
It doesn’t matter to California politicians because they think more entrepreneurs will set up shop in the Golden State in the years to come. They do not see the this corporate exodus being related to high personal business taxes subsidizing unskilled Sanctuary City refugees with welfare entitlement expenses that total more than 10 billion dollars a year.
The Exodus has begun. California is shortly going to look like a West Coast version of Venezuela. Already our government schools in San Fran, Santa Ana, Los Angeles are segregated—not enough white students to integrate the classroom!
A French Revolution coming to California Dream by Richard Eber
Richard Eber, California Political News and Views 12/24/18
Progressive Democrats, who operate the State of California as if it is one large Soviet 5 Year Plan colony complete with Bullet Train. They don’t especially care what impact their policies have on a souring the business environment as moving vans head southeast towards Austin Texas
Quicker than one can say “Call Bekins”, mature High tech start ups are quietly relocating their headquarters to places where middle management employees can afford to own a home and State government does not treat them like white trash.
It doesn’t matter to California politicians because they think more entrepreneurs will set up shop in the Golden State in the years to come. They do not see the this corporate exodus being related to high personal business taxes subsidizing unskilled Sanctuary City refugees with welfare entitlement expenses that total more than 10 billion dollars a year.
Or for that matter headquarters of large companies are leaving San Francisco because their employees are tired of walking over human feces of the homeless on their way to work
Guess again. All of these things do matter. Just because almost government beyond the local level is dominated by left wing Democrats, does not mean they are correct imposing their way of life on others. There are signs everywhere that the economic bubble California is floating around in, will burst in the next couple years.
Those making millions of dollars a year are asked to fund socialistic dreams of progressives. What might happen to these revenues if a recession hits or too many rich people move away? Even Gerry Brown, who in his dotage has tried to peddle junk science Greenhouse gas policies on his constituents, warned that the state had to save money in a rainy day fund when tax revenues decline. This did not stop
- Cap and Trade strangling business growth at all levels. While this is a noble effort to rid the state from using fossil fuels in the near future, it ultimately raises the cost of manufacturing in the Golden State and puts companies In California at a distinct disadvantage with competitors who consume less expensive fuel.
- Cumbersome Environmental laws that in addition to making new manufacturing next to impossible, dramatically have increased the costs for new construction. The State has responded by trying to encourage building high density housing. The only problem is history has shown the junkie high rise stuff they plan to build, is not where most families really want to live.
- Water policies that seem to appeal to extremists who aim to tear down dams, provide no extra storage, and insist on unreasonable conservation measures. Most of the time they have no consideration of what effect these policies might have on residents of the state. Unelected bureaucrats prefer to promote a salmon run than ruin to a 2 billion dollar almond crop.
- Laissez faire forest management that has allowed excess growth of underbrush to provide the foundation for the severity of recent fires throughout the State. This has increased insurance expenses and raised the cost of living for all.
- Over regulation of environmental laws, zoning, EIR’s, land use decisions, and Project Labor Agreements (PLA’s) make building anything affordable for California’s dwindling middle class. All of this has made living in California unaffordable except for the rich, those covered by rent control, and those who are long term owners of residential property.
All of these problems are real. It is not enough to blame Donald Trump for that ails California or to pin the poor performance of the K1-12 public school system to Education Secretary Betsy De Vos and/or the infamous Koch Brothers. Are we to believe funding a free pre-school education program by the State is supposed to substitute for the socialization provided by parents?
I think not. No matter how much free stuff and giveaways are put into law big government is not a viable alternative to the nuclear family. This is why Donald Trump was elected two years ago and still has a strong following. Families elected him to run the Country, not to be President of the PTA or be the preacher at the local church.
Those pushing the California way from Gavin Newsom to Kamala Harris are oblivious to reality. They are drunk with power. Harris thinks her arrogant behavior in the Senate will propel her to reside in the White House. It does not occur to them that those trying to push back the gas tax increase with proposition 6 in the last election have a lot of similarities to the Yellow Vest inspired protests going on in France the last two months.
The major difference between the French insurgents and the feeble opposition in California is the duration and the effects of socialism on the middle class in France. These people have seen their standard of living decline as their government showed more interest in saving the planet than taking care of the welfare of the people. At the same time the yellow vest folks are fed up with immigration policy which has increased crime and diluted their proud French heritage
After a generation of these policies, a good number of the Frenchmen feel they have come to the critical position of being placed in an “I’m falling and can’t get up” existence”, with little hope in sight.
We haven’t quite gotten to this place in California yet. As soon to be Governor Newsom and his progressive army take power, it appears they are pushing a PC culture on their minions where they expect families to accept living in high rise apartments, abandon their automobiles, change lifestyles to having a lower standard of living, and be team players in the utopia their leaders are building.
By providing cradle to grave public services, progressives believe independence will be gladly be sacrificed for government paid medical care, schooling, recreational services, and virtually all needs that are to be taken care of.
I don’t believe this fantasy one bit where taxation and social service policies will result in the middle class being in effect merged with lower economic groups Over time the residents of California will eventually join me and like the yellow vests in France to kick the bums out. In our State this will mean a collapse at the polls with failed government policies turning supporters of the current Democratic Party into the conservatives of tomorrow.
In my mind it is not if but when the citizens of California will resemble the yellow vest protestors in France who are fed up with their socialistic government and the erosion of the French way of life. It might not take a lot of time for similar dissatisfaction to translate to the Golden State. Gray Davis quickly learned of this some 15 years ago when he was recalled from office for basically doing the things he pledged to do in his election campaign.
Recent indications show the political elite in California are oblivious to what is transpiring on the streets of Paris. Gavin Newsom and his gang of progressives are moving full throttle with their plans for a Sanctuary State, with job killing environmental policies, and government involvement in everyone’s life greater than has ever been experienced in the history of this country.
I just hope the Republican Party has the “rang tang bank reminiscent of gin and vermouth” to revitalize themselves and provide reasonable opposition to the Democratic juggernaut. Time is running out.
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