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What Happens When Democrats Run Your State
In the video below, the Democrat carefully explains that people need to understand that the new California model is to have multi-generational families in each residence. That there is simply no need to increase housing — only population numbers via immigration are to be increased — not housing units.
In Stockton, CA, waves of immigration hit in the late 1980s through the 1990s. People were quick to divide up their homes into small apartments and some built granny units in their backyard.
So many people in Stockton became landlords. A lot of this was done “under the table” as building permits are expensive and require so much time. (A strip mall takes four years to get permitted in California, while in TX it takes only five months.) But the people living in the non-permitted units still needed schools, hospitals and clinics, police services, including prisons, and, of course, transit and highways. So it’s hardly surprising that Stockton went broke and declared bankruptcy.
For months, I have posted here that any time local officials are able to think about catering to immigrants, they stress the idea that it is too stressful for immigrants to learn English; the schools need to be mostly Spanish language. I often feel alone in this statement — but this video details how it is the reality.
The productive people are leaving the state. Note the wonderful interview with Jerry Brown, as he details his analysis — that the “smart business people will figure it out.” Sorry Moonbeam, the smart people now figure leaving this sorry state is the best business idea that they can come up with.
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Another problem in California and other Lefty places is that it is impossible to build new infrastructure. No roads, no water sources, no public transportation. Cali is living off the infrastructure built in 60’s and 70’s. That can’t last.
Yes, San Rafael has….. changed.
What could go wrong with such a situation, as the New Age thinking is as long as a population thinks positive, all will be well. So let’s have rent controls and also encourage lots of immigration: the more people crammed into the fewest number of residences – the merrier!
A Leftist might not agree with your last statement, simply because you used their least favorite word: “borders.”
You mean solar-powered light rail is not going to solve everything?
They never want a conversation.
That’s code for “shut up and listen”
And to think I almost moved there in 1982. After my job interview at Diablo Canyon, I drove around San Luis Obispo and fell in love with it – until I saw the price of houses and apartments. I was on a plane out the next morning . . .
I can’t wait to be able to travel between Merced and Shafter at blazing speeds. It’ll be awesome!
Jerry’s second (third?) act in politics seems to be about dismantling all that his father created.
Speaking regretfully as an ex-pat Californio, all that would be accomplished if the current three-state proposal were approved by the US Congress would be the addition of four more Democratic senators. Each of the three new “Californias” is drawn to include a deep-blue urban anchor, enough to insure that the red counties of the state remain marginalized and politically insignificant. Of course, if the US Congress happens to have a Democratic supermajority when the proposal reaches D.C. it might actually happen.
It’s things like this that break my heart. I graduated from San Rafael High in 1981. I can still sing the school fight song. To read of its demise and decline is enough to bring tears.
I like that one. Dinosaurs all the way down.
Wow & OMG! First time that I’m hearing about this.
OK, Ricochet, time for a reality check.
A post on California’s continuing woes elicits 43 comments and not a single one mentions:
Mexico
Mexicans
Hispanics
Latinos
You folks want to blame everything for the Golden State’s demise except the proverbial elephant in the room.
Anybody want to tell me which ethnic population has exploded in size since 1990? Anybody?
Anybody want to tell me what the percentage is of Hispanics in California, or is that irrelevant?
I’m sure it feels better to talk about “leftism” and “progressivism” and the Romans and blah-blah-blah. I’m sure it’s more fun to make fun of Jerry Brown and the other ethnomasochists who currently rule California. But who gave them their huge majorities – the public employee unions or the Hispanic voters?
Well?
And who is going to be replacing the Browns and Feinsteins over the next few years? It’ll be Hispanics and clever folks who can claim an Hispanic connection. Do you think Kevin de Leon is going to be changing policies?
Draw the correct lesson from the problems outlined in the video and the post. We can live with liberalism. Americans have lived with it all around the country for decades. It ain’t good, but it can be managed. That’s the clear evidence of the American experience. But we cannot survive being turned into Latin America.
OK, enough reality. Feel free to tell me how wrong-headed this comment is, how the situation in California has nothing to do with Mexicans, or at least nothing essential.
I know it makes you feel better.
Damn it, I didn’t even remember the turtles.
It has only been since 2012 or so that the votes of the people from Mexico mattered. Way back in the early 1990’s due to release of unclassified demographics, there was all this fear that “the Mexican vote” was going to shift politics inside California. Few people considered that although the population of latinos was large, the fact was that many weren’t citizens. The ones who were happened to be were under the age of 12.
It is also true that many established citizens from Mexico and other parts of the world voted for Donald Trump. He received some 33% of the overall hispanic vote.
Rob Morse, a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner had toured the Central Valley of Calif around 1993 or so. He tallied up how many people were not for immigration. What was interesting about his approach was that he avoided talking to WASP types. The people he interviewed had last names like Chung, King, Nguyen, Hernandez, Garcia et al. They were registered voters. They understood better than more liberal neighbors that if you let everyone in, the society is going to go down.
It’s hard to know what is happening ethnic group-wise now. The DNC controls the voter rolls. I bet they’ve heavily padded those rolls with fraudulent registrations. But it is also true that those from south of the border who were 12 in the 1990’s are now grown up and voting.
However, if the Left can clinch the legalizing of an open borders policy, then all bets are off. California will become firmly a state of Mexico and other places like Oregon will go that way also.
If Republicans were running the show in Calif, the welfare benefits would not have been so generous. Jerry Brown’s Supreme Court Judge overturned the victory the electorate had, that due to Prop 187 passing, benefits to anyone not a citizen would no longer happen. So that nullification of a needed situation allowed for continual migration.
Liberals try and say, “Well historically speaking, since California had belonged to Mexico, that is why so many migrate to the state. It is their homeland.” But it is also true that Arizona, Texas and Nevada belonged to Mexico once also. But Arizona and the other states are not as likely to give away generous welfare bennies, housing vouchers, food stamps etc. Currently people work and receive these benefits.
“Arizona and the other states are not as likely to give away generous welfare bennies, housing vouchers, food stamps etc.”
Yet.
“Currently people work and receive these benefits.“
Currently.
It’s not Open Borders, @caroljoy
It’s immigration. What happened in CA was accelerated by illegals and judicial overreach, but it was going to happen anyway, sooner or later. It’s in the process of happening now in Texas, Nevada, New Mexico and Georgia. It just isn’t getting the same attention in those states that huge California commands.
You can have America or you can have Latin America. Decide who you are, what you want for your children and act accordingly.
Build the Wall and deport them all.
It was definitely an Open Borders policy that was pursued in many places in California. Marin County’s citizens demanded that ICE avoid their county – way back in the 1980’s this was happening.
Various monies were made available to organizations that helped latinos and latinas. Meryl Buck’s 12 million dollars that she had stipulated via a will were to be used to help citizens in Marin County were diverted to projects such as “resume writing for immigrants” and “job programs for immigrants.”
Twice when I was unemployed in the 1990’s, friends would mention this program or that that would help me find a job. In the end, both programs were devoted to help latinas in their 40’s, not job displaced Americans.
Anyway we can quibble over semantics, but the situation that is troubling for me is that people don’t mind a liberal immigration policy or an open borders policy until they are affected by it. So I have friends in Missouri, Oregon and New Jersey who are all on their high horse of “Carol, how can you as a human being not go to bed worried over the poor children being detained away from their parents, in medieval torture chambers!?!” (Rachel Maddow had most of her program devoted to this last night.)
Of course, once the Missourian can no longer send the children to local public schools because La Raza had seen to it that only semi-literate marginally educated people now teach in schools there, they will wake up. But by then it is too late.