Tag: California filled with nutjobs

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

If you are so unfortunate to live in California, get out quickly.  The state government is insane.  Indeed, you could say criminally insane. Aside from water, electricity, earthquake and wildfire problems, the state has legislated away doctors’ judgments about how to best treat their patients, and the Woke governor’s state task force on reparations for blacks wants to rob California residents of $2,225,000,000,000 in order to give the  2,225,000 blacks who reside in California $1,000,000 each.  As soon as blacks hear about this, practically the entire black population of the US will move to California. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11605393/Chair-Californias-reparations-task-force-demands-black-homeless-compensated-slavery.html

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Guest Post by Steve Lamb

California as broken golden dream has become cliché. For those of us who live here, that cliché is a bitter daily existence. Here in this COVID-19 summer of unrelenting groundhog days of privation, a heatwave and wildfires are upon us. Already, Gov. Gavin Newsom, the pet nephew of Vodka Nancy, the unmasked hair salon-goer who is third in line to the U.S. Presidency, is issuing special edicts for the peasants as the heat rises.

Throughout most of California this weekend the temperature reached over 110 degrees. Our governor is telling us to turn off air conditioners, or the power will be shut off. Seems like a distinction without a difference, except of course the rapidly melting contents of the freezer. All of the efficient per square foot air conditioned spaces in the state of California are still closed by Newsom’s COVID-19 edicts – edicts that he and his family ignore. They are, after all, important. So this summer, the normal zones of heat escape open to Californians were all closed. Beaches. Public swimming pools. Malls and their food courts. Restaurants, Movie theaters. All unavailable for relief, leaving only inefficient home air conditioning.

Continue reading “No, WE Are NOT All in This Together”

Via ZeroHedge

For years, it had been speculated that California’s state-wide model of heavy regulation, expensive education, high taxes and bloated spending would eventually drive the state into financial ruin, according to a new Bloomberg Opinion piece. Over the last 15 years, the state also has had to deal with widespread blackouts and an unemployment rate that ballooned to 12% after the financial crisis.

After deficits exploded under Governor Schwarzenegger, the state eventually got back on track. Under Governor Jerry Brown, the state raised taxes again (surprise) and bumped up its sales tax. These tax hikes, combined with a recovery in housing and in the stock market, helped swing the state’s budget back into the black.

But now, the symptoms of larger problems in California are bubbling to the surface yet again. For instance, the recent “planned blackouts” by power provider PG&E to try and prevent wildfires are indicative of a crumbling energy infrastructure across the state.

Continue reading “California Is (Again) Teetering On The Edge Of Financial Ruin”

Guest Post by Eric Peters

The South will probably not rise again – but California might, for the same reasons. And if it does, maybe the right thing to do, this time, would be to let it go in peace.

Provided, of course, that California returns the favor.

Continue reading “California Risin’”

Via The Babylon Bee

U.S.—After California added Iowa to its growing list of states to which the government will not fund trips, all the other states began clamoring to get added to this ban list.

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Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

When former California Gov. Jerry Brown announced his ill-conceived, ill-fated high-speed train that no one wanted, and no one ever thought would be completed, he unwittingly sent the message that the once Golden State would soon be spiraling into disaster. Before current Gov. Gavin Newsom killed the train, California had squandered $5 billion on the boondoggle, and cost projections soared billions more from the original estimate. New York Times’ analysts pegged the train’s final total at a staggering $100 billion.

Brown envisioned himself as a forward-thinking leader who would secure California’s self-proclaimed position as the nation’s preeminent cutting-edge state. Brown put California on the cutting-edge, all right, but of catastrophe.

Continue reading “California Off the Rails, State a Disaster Zone”

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Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

In 1845, Lansford W. Hastings, best known for developing the Hastings Cutoff, a travelers’ shortcut through what is today Utah, wrote The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California. Hastings’ effusive portrait included this California description: “Here perpetual summer is in the midst of unceasing winter; perennial and never-ending autumn stand side by side, and towering snowclad mountains forever look down upon eternal vedure.” In other words, Paradise.

Hastings, a trained lawyer, left his native Ohio in 1842, Oregon-bound. Then, in the spring of 1843, Hastings headed for Alta California, a sparsely populated Mexican province. Hastings, a former Civil War Confederate States Major, sought to lead Alta California’s acquisition, and hoped his guide would attract enough residents to overwhelm Mexico through sheer numbers.

Continue reading “California, Once ‘Eternal Verdure,’ Now Overpopulated Nightmare”

Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

California, the preferred destination for travelers who took publisher Horace Greeley’s long-ago suggestion to “Go West,” is a mess. According to Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, an Iowa U.S. Representative who served during the mid-1860s, Greeley told him that in the West he would find “health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles…”

Forget that. With California’s population fast-approaching 40 million, finding open space anywhere is a challenge. And as for “imbeciles,” some of Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown’s harshest critics describe his administration’s priorities as imbecilic. Brown and his pals ignore the state’s societal problems, and instead act to make them more insoluble.

Continue reading “A Californian Warns: ‘Don’t Go West, Young Man’”