Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?

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An Iron curtain descends over Callifornia

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Getting California secession

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Doc wrote:An Iron curtain descends over Callifornia

http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/22/calif ... bt-states/
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See.... YES WE CAN!

Just a start, but I think a few more stories about racism, gun violence, sheep shagging, phobophobia, flat earth climate deniers, etc. And CA and Mexico will gladly build that wall themselves.
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NY Times | California Secession Advocate Faces Scrutiny Over Where He’s Based: Russia
Louis J. Marinelli, 30, president of the Yes California campaign, in Yekaterinburg, Russia. He said he had no ties to the Russian government despite having accepted some travel expenses and office space from a Kremlin-linked nationalist group.
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Anyways, the idea of "California secession" is a left-right fantasy for the foreseeable future.
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Typhoon wrote:NY Times | California Secession Advocate Faces Scrutiny Over Where He’s Based: Russia
Louis J. Marinelli, 30, president of the Yes California campaign, in Yekaterinburg, Russia. He said he had no ties to the Russian government despite having accepted some travel expenses and office space from a Kremlin-linked nationalist group.
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Anyways, the idea of "California secession" is a left-right fantasy for the foreseeable future.
It's an impossible idea. Hawaii and Texas are possibilities, but not California.
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Doc wrote:An Iron curtain descends over Callifornia

http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/22/calif ... bt-states/
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Hmmm..... straight outa this article:


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Doc wrote:An Iron curtain descends over Callifornia

http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/22/calif ... bt-states/
California Bans Students From Traveling To ‘Anti-LGBT’ States
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Hmmm..... straight outa this article:


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http://quillette.com/2017/01/02/the-uni ... stitution/
Seems like you found a script to an episode of the Simpsons.
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California: The Physical Collapse Of A Social State

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Welcome to California. It is a state of a perfect set of laws – at least in the minds of those wedded to the legislative pursuit of social justice. Under the one-party Democrat rules, spending on fairness tops $100 billion every year. Meanwhile, the basic infrastructure of the state, so necessary for the economy long and short term, is collapsing.
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http://tacticalinvestor.com/california- ... -exit-u-s/

California announces proposal to exit U.S.
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Reason | CalExit Secession Movement Dies the Way It Lived: Stupidly
One notably bizarre, disorganized push to turn California into its own country is dead—at least for now. Its leader, Louis J. Marinelli, announced that he is canceling the petition and pulling up stakes. While he said he believed in the struggle for California's independence "from the United States so we could build the kind of country that reflects our progressive values," he has decided on a new path.

He's decided he'd rather live in Russia, which is not exactly famous for its progressiveness.
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Typhoon wrote:Reason | CalExit Secession Movement Dies the Way It Lived: Stupidly
One notably bizarre, disorganized push to turn California into its own country is dead—at least for now. Its leader, Louis J. Marinelli, announced that he is canceling the petition and pulling up stakes. While he said he believed in the struggle for California's independence "from the United States so we could build the kind of country that reflects our progressive values," he has decided on a new path.

He's decided he'd rather live in Russia, which is not exactly famous for its progressiveness.
:lol:

Hey I wonder if they discriminate against people for not being on time in Russia

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/12/publi ... is-racist/
Public University’s ‘Diversity Training’: Expecting People To Show Up On Time Is Racist
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Doc wrote:
Typhoon wrote:Reason | CalExit Secession Movement Dies the Way It Lived: Stupidly
One notably bizarre, disorganized push to turn California into its own country is dead—at least for now. Its leader, Louis J. Marinelli, announced that he is canceling the petition and pulling up stakes. While he said he believed in the struggle for California's independence "from the United States so we could build the kind of country that reflects our progressive values," he has decided on a new path.

He's decided he'd rather live in Russia, which is not exactly famous for its progressiveness.
:lol:

Hey I wonder if they discriminate against people for not being on time in Russia

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/12/publi ... is-racist/
Public University’s ‘Diversity Training’: Expecting People To Show Up On Time Is Racist
Ironic. Stereotyping individuals by their nationality/ethnicity in the name of so-called diversity.

In Japan, not showing up 5 minutes early is late.
Or is at least is perceived as a worrisome lack of sincerity and earnest commitment.
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Typhoon wrote:
In Japan, not showing up 5 minutes early is late.
Or is at least is perceived as a worrisome lack of sincerity and earnest commitment.
I remember that, but the Japanese I grew up with didn't look "Asian." ;)
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Doc wrote:
Typhoon wrote:Reason | CalExit Secession Movement Dies the Way It Lived: Stupidly
One notably bizarre, disorganized push to turn California into its own country is dead—at least for now. Its leader, Louis J. Marinelli, announced that he is canceling the petition and pulling up stakes. While he said he believed in the struggle for California's independence "from the United States so we could build the kind of country that reflects our progressive values," he has decided on a new path.

He's decided he'd rather live in Russia, which is not exactly famous for its progressiveness.
:lol:

Hey I wonder if they discriminate against people for not being on time in Russia

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/12/publi ... is-racist/


Public University’s ‘Diversity Training’: Expecting People To Show Up On Time Is Racist
Is anyone aware of a go-fund-me page or something that we could donate to, in order to keep these people on their current "flight path" (pun intended)?

If these people enter the normal economy in any way, shape, or form, it's just gonna get worse.

Maybe some long term study programs in Venezuela?
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Simple Minded wrote:
Doc wrote:
Typhoon wrote:Reason | CalExit Secession Movement Dies the Way It Lived: Stupidly
One notably bizarre, disorganized push to turn California into its own country is dead—at least for now. Its leader, Louis J. Marinelli, announced that he is canceling the petition and pulling up stakes. While he said he believed in the struggle for California's independence "from the United States so we could build the kind of country that reflects our progressive values," he has decided on a new path.

He's decided he'd rather live in Russia, which is not exactly famous for its progressiveness.
:lol:

Hey I wonder if they discriminate against people for not being on time in Russia

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/12/publi ... is-racist/


Public University’s ‘Diversity Training’: Expecting People To Show Up On Time Is Racist
Is anyone aware of a go-fund-me page or something that we could donate to, in order to keep these people on their current "flight path" (pun intended)?

If these people enter the normal economy in any way, shape, or form, it's just gonna get worse.

Maybe some long term study programs in Venezuela?
Why would you do that to Venezuelans? They have enough problems as it is.
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Simple Minded wrote:
Doc wrote:
Typhoon wrote:Reason | CalExit Secession Movement Dies the Way It Lived: Stupidly
One notably bizarre, disorganized push to turn California into its own country is dead—at least for now. Its leader, Louis J. Marinelli, announced that he is canceling the petition and pulling up stakes. While he said he believed in the struggle for California's independence "from the United States so we could build the kind of country that reflects our progressive values," he has decided on a new path.

He's decided he'd rather live in Russia, which is not exactly famous for its progressiveness.
:lol:

Hey I wonder if they discriminate against people for not being on time in Russia

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/12/publi ... is-racist/


Public University’s ‘Diversity Training’: Expecting People To Show Up On Time Is Racist
Is anyone aware of a go-fund-me page or something that we could donate to, in order to keep these people on their current "flight path" (pun intended)?

If these people enter the normal economy in any way, shape, or form, it's just gonna get worse.

Maybe some long term study programs in Venezuela?
Why would you do that to Venezuelans? They have enough problems as it is.
I think once Californians figure out they are better in Mexico, Mexico will have an illegal immigration problem

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LA Times | Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?

Among various reasons proferred:
Extensive environmental regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions make energy more expensive, also hurting the poor. By some estimates, California energy costs are as much as 50% higher than the national average. Jonathan A. Lesser of Continental Economics, author of a 2015 Manhattan Institute study, “Less Carbon, Higher Prices,” found that “in 2012, nearly 1 million California households faced … energy expenditures exceeding 10% of household income. In certain California counties, the rate of energy poverty was as high as 15% of all households.” A Pacific Research Institute study by Wayne Winegarden found that the rate could exceed 17% of median income in some areas.
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Typhoon wrote:LA Times | Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?

Among various reasons proferred:
Extensive environmental regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions make energy more expensive, also hurting the poor. By some estimates, California energy costs are as much as 50% higher than the national average. Jonathan A. Lesser of Continental Economics, author of a 2015 Manhattan Institute study, “Less Carbon, Higher Prices,” found that “in 2012, nearly 1 million California households faced … energy expenditures exceeding 10% of household income. In certain California counties, the rate of energy poverty was as high as 15% of all households.” A Pacific Research Institute study by Wayne Winegarden found that the rate could exceed 17% of median income in some areas.
California has actually made quite a bit of progress making itself Mexico again

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status ... 4710187008
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Doc wrote:
Typhoon wrote:LA Times | Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?

Among various reasons proferred:
Extensive environmental regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions make energy more expensive, also hurting the poor. By some estimates, California energy costs are as much as 50% higher than the national average. Jonathan A. Lesser of Continental Economics, author of a 2015 Manhattan Institute study, “Less Carbon, Higher Prices,” found that “in 2012, nearly 1 million California households faced … energy expenditures exceeding 10% of household income. In certain California counties, the rate of energy poverty was as high as 15% of all households.” A Pacific Research Institute study by Wayne Winegarden found that the rate could exceed 17% of median income in some areas.
California has actually made quite a bit of progress making itself Mexico again

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status ... 4710187008
Reminds me of the homeless camp that used to exist on Nakanoshima Island in Osaka, only it was not as large and more neat. Same island as the city hall.
At some point, the city govt cleared them out and put up barriers. Not sure where they ended up.

One factor should be taken into account. If one is to be homeless, southern California is a far better choice than northern Minnesota.
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Typhoon wrote:
Doc wrote:
Typhoon wrote:LA Times | Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?

Among various reasons proferred:
Extensive environmental regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions make energy more expensive, also hurting the poor. By some estimates, California energy costs are as much as 50% higher than the national average. Jonathan A. Lesser of Continental Economics, author of a 2015 Manhattan Institute study, “Less Carbon, Higher Prices,” found that “in 2012, nearly 1 million California households faced … energy expenditures exceeding 10% of household income. In certain California counties, the rate of energy poverty was as high as 15% of all households.” A Pacific Research Institute study by Wayne Winegarden found that the rate could exceed 17% of median income in some areas.
California has actually made quite a bit of progress making itself Mexico again

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status ... 4710187008
Reminds me of the homeless camp that used to exist on Nakanoshima Island in Osaka, only it was not as large and more neat. Same island as the city hall.
At some point, the city govt cleared them out and put up barriers. Not sure where they ended up.

One factor should be taken into account. If one is to be homeless, southern California is a far better choice than northern Minnesota.

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From the Twitter link above :
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This is the result of socialism and left-wing politics.
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What the Twitter means, is, "Socialist and left-wing Politicians" allowed these poor people camp there in plain view (probably of well off people) .. the "non-socialist and right-wing" politicians would dump them somewhere nobody would see them, out of view .. they would not disappear or somehow get better off, but disappear from view.

:lol:

Why not see how their lives can be helped, maybe find them a job, help them get on their feet ?

Ahhhhh .. got it .. they lazy , don't want to work .. LOL .. well, even six-figure salaries are considered ‘low income’

So, in Vancouver, any developer adds "affordable housing" to his project, gets additional "density" permit for his development.


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Typhoon wrote:LA Times | Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?

Among various reasons proferred:
Extensive environmental regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions make energy more expensive, also hurting the poor. By some estimates, California energy costs are as much as 50% higher than the national average. Jonathan A. Lesser of Continental Economics, author of a 2015 Manhattan Institute study, “Less Carbon, Higher Prices,” found that “in 2012, nearly 1 million California households faced … energy expenditures exceeding 10% of household income. In certain California counties, the rate of energy poverty was as high as 15% of all households.” A Pacific Research Institute study by Wayne Winegarden found that the rate could exceed 17% of median income in some areas.
California has actually made quite a bit of progress making itself Mexico again

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status ... 4710187008
Reminds me of the homeless camp that used to exist on Nakanoshima Island in Osaka, only it was not as large and more neat. Same island as the city hall.
At some point, the city govt cleared them out and put up barriers. Not sure where they ended up.

One factor should be taken into account. If one is to be homeless, southern California is a far better choice than northern Minnesota.
I noticed that on my trips to Toronto -- No Homeless people. Now in good economic times there are still homeless in the US as the mentally ill largely can't be institutionalized (Though not sure what happens to them in Canada. Maybe they stay in the institutions because it is pretty damn cold outside for much of the year IDK.) Even if they are a danger to themselves or others. That is directly because "progressive" Ideals that are based on eugenics like Pennhurst. Which was originally proposed and built out of fear of "Sexually Insatiable Female Morons"

https://www.salon.com/2006/03/04/bruinius/
Progressive genocide
Less than 100 years ago, America’s finest minds were convinced the nation was threatened by sexually insatiable female morons. A new history of the eugenics movement sheds light on a bizarre chapter in U.S. history.
Now we have the modern day equivalent "Global Warming"

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Suffer The Little Children: A Peek into the History of Eugenics and Child Abuse by the State - Pennsylvania Pennhurst. (Full Documentary) The ground-breaking 1968 NBC10 Expose on Pennhurst State School by Bill Baldini. Haunting Similarities to current horrors of CPS Shelters + Group Homes (abuse, money benefits contractors, children worse off). Once called the shame of the nation, Pennhurst was the epicenter of a civil and human rights movement that changed the way the world saw people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The atrocities of neglect at Pennhurst resulted in Supreme Court litigation that sounded the death knell for institutionalization worldwide. Pennhurst was the battleground in a monumental struggle to secure basic human rights for the last group of Americans to attain privileges assumed to be the natural freedoms of all persons. Pennhurst's historic and beautiful campus is, like Valley Forge and Independence Mall to the east, hallowed ground in the struggle for dignity and self-determination, a western anchor to a freedom corridor, that, though stretching but a few miles, reaches all the way around the world. Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance seeks to ensure that those achievements won at Pennhurst are neither lost nor forgotten. http://www.preservepennhurst.com/defa... PA & EUGENICS - In 1913, the legislature appointed a Commission for the Care of the Feeble-Minded which stated that the disabled were unfit for citizenship and posed a menace to the peace, and thus recommended a program of custodial care. The Commission desired to prevent the intermixing of the genes of those imprisoned w the general population. In the Biennial Report to the Legislature submitted by the Board of Trustees, Pennhurst's Chief Physician quoted Henry H. Goddard, a leading eugenicist:- "Every feeble-minded person is a potential criminal. The general public, although more convinced today than ever before that it is a good thing to segregate the durian or the distinct imbecile, they have not as yet been convinced as to the proper treatment of the defective delinquent, which is the brighter and more dangerous individual." More on Eugenics in Pennsylvania - -- In 1857 the Supreme Court handed down the Dred Scott decision while it held session at Bedford Springs in Bedford, Pennsylvania. Dred Scott and his family walked into the Supreme Court as free people and walked out as slaves. Transferring authority from the parent to the state produced profound subservience and slavery into the entire culture. Millions of American families are now experiencing the very same fate as the Dred Scott family, as "family courts" and bureaucratic slave-makers are committing the very same atrocities in eugenics "kangaroo courts." http://bedfordsprings.blogspot.com/ -- Eugenics in America, Began in Bedford, Pennsylvania and Continues to Destroy through CPS Fraud, Abuse, False Accusations. http://robertscourt.blogspot.com/2009... --- Cases --- PENNHURST STATE SCHOOL V. HALDERMAN, 465 U. S. 89 (1984). The Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that the MH/MR Act required the State to adopt the "least restrictive environment" approach for the care of the mentally retarded, and rejecting petitioners' argument that the Eleventh Amendment barred a federal court from considering this pendent state law claim. The court reasoned that, since that Amendment did not bar a federal court from granting prospective injunctive relief against state officials on the basis of federal claims, citing Ex parte Young, 209 U. S. 123, the same result obtained with respect to a pendent state law claim. HELD: Eleventh Amendment prohibited the District Court from ordering state officials to conform their conduct to state law. Pp. 465 U. S. 97-124. (a) The principle of sovereign immunity is a constitutional limitation on the federal judicial power established in Art. III of the Constitution. The Eleventh Amendment bars a suit against state officials when the State is the real, substantial party in interest, regardless of whether the suit seeks damages or injunctive relief. The Court in Ex parte Young, supra, recognized an important exception to this general rule: a suit challenging the federal constitutionality of a state official's action is not one against the State. Pp. 465 U. S. 97-103. http://supreme.justia.com/us/465/89/ EX PARTE YOUNG, 209 U.S. 123 (1908), Whether a state statute is unconstitutional because the penalties for its violation are so enormous that persons affected thereby are prevented from resorting to the courts for the purpose of determining the validity of the statute, and are thereby denied the equal protection of the law, and their property rendered liable to be taken without due process of law, is a Federal question and gives the Circuit Court jurisdiction. http://supreme.justia.com/us/209/123/...

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New movement to split up California The map is very similar to Mr. P's proposal

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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la ... story.html

Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?

Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor. That's according to the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food, utilities and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income.

Given robust job growth and the prosperity generated by several industries, it's worth asking why California has fallen behind, especially when the state's per-capita GDP increased approximately twice as much as the U.S. average over the five years ending in 2016 (12.5%, compared with 6.27%).

It's not as though California policymakers have neglected to wage war on poverty. 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. California state and local governments spent nearly $958 billion from 1992 through 2015 on public welfare programs, including cash-assistance payments, vendor payments and "other public welfare," according to the Census Bureau. California, with 12% of the American population, is home today to about one in three of the nation's welfare recipients.

California Democrats have long been free to indulge blue-state ideology while paying little or no political price.

The generous spending, then, has not only failed to decrease poverty; it actually seems to have made it worse.
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Doc wrote:http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la ... story.html

Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?
Because it is liberal.
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