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Wednesday, December 23. 2020

As If It Wasn't Bad Enough

It's getting worse.
California, intent on driving its residents into utter poverty, has sped up its attack on the wealthy.
There was a time when people headed there to make their fortune, and many did. California was, for many years, the image of 'the future'. Even with the recent tech boom and Silicon Valley, there was a resurgence of its forward-thinking vision.

Over the years, California has proved itself incapable of managing such basic things as water or even electricity. The misguided desires to centrally plan everything, and overtax people to do it, will kill the state. This is a given.

California has succumbed to politicians' worst instincts and is not only taxing people to death, but chasing business away, and enforcing social ideas that are (to put it mildly) out of touch with humanity and reality. It should not be surprising that so many people are leaving for places like Texas, Montana or several other states which are outside the deep blue Progressive belt of shame.

Cali, which I used to visit regularly for business, is nice. I'd consider living there...at one point in time. Not so much now.

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And the people fleeing Cali bring the same disease to where they go that killed it with them.

#1 Robert Sendler on 2020-12-23 11:26 (Reply)

Yeah, heaven help Texas and Montana when critical liberal mass is reached, à la Georgia. It's like a worm that consumes its host until the host succumbs.

#1.1 BillH on 2020-12-23 12:19 (Reply)

Just tell them to bypass Arizona. We are full up with idiots.

#2 Mike K (Link) on 2020-12-23 12:19 (Reply)

And many of those are retirees from the Big Craphole!!!

#2.1 Mark Matis on 2020-12-23 12:53 (Reply)

I moved to Arizona because it still had folks yearning to be free. But in the short time I've been here, Arizona is now overrun with California and other blue-state refugees. And yet they all seem indoctrinated with the virus that infected their home states. I even spoke to a woman at a party who said, in all seriousness, that she was from California and was glad to see that Arizona was turning blue and that she was also glad that she had had a part in it. These people are nuts.

#2.2 RetiredSOF on 2020-12-23 17:08 (Reply)

re California was, for many years, the image of 'the future'

I fear it still is the image of the future.

Meanwhile, New Taxes:

A California Plan to Chase Away the Rich, Then Keep Stalking Them

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-california-plan-to-chase-away-the-rich-then-keep-stalking-them-11608331448

And regulations. An example at Rush's site:

QUOTE:

I’m the COO of a small business here in Southern California, and we’ve been working remote for the past almost year. And we’ve not had a very good year. And I think a lot of that has been related to COVID. We made a strategic decision to have people come back into the office on January 4th.

CALLER: So listen, Rush. I’m the COO of a small business here in Southern California, and we’ve been working remote for the past almost year. And we’ve not had a very good year. And I think a lot of that has been related to COVID. We made a strategic decision to have people come back into the office on January 4th.

And then at the beginning of December, this bureaucratic body called the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, they released their guidelines for coming back to work and what we’re supposed to follow. And, Rush, this is the biggest bunch of BS I’ve ever read. It’s unbelievable what they mandate, and this is for every business in California. You are required to follow this. Let me tell you one of the things that we’re supposed to do.

We’re supposed to “check the quality of our outside air with our air-conditioning units to make sure that there’s enough outside air coming into the offices.”

So here’s another good one. So we’re trying to bring people back, right?

So they tell us we’re supposed to physically distance, and here’s one of the ways that we’re supposed to physically distance: By “eliminating the need for the workers to be in the workplace.”

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/12/22/how-california-plans-to-tax-citizens-who-leave/

That's crazy.

#3 feeblemind on 2020-12-23 12:44 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Do they not know at the Wall Street Journal that the Democrats don’t give a rip about the U.S. Constitution?

After the SCOTUS ignored Texas' election lawsuit (joined by almost half the states and by the President himself) because they didn't have "standing" it seems that our "guardians of the Constitution" don't give a rip about the Constitution either.

#3.1 mudbug on 2020-12-23 14:06 (Reply)

I think the Guardians of the Space Force need to launch the guardians of the Constitution into a similar orbit as voyager 1 and
2. I lived in California during the Northridge earthquake and the Rodney King riots. I moved and made sure I left nothing behind as I was not returning.

#3.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2020-12-23 15:02 (Reply)

If the Supreme Court refuses to do what is clearly their duty, the consequences will be on them. If they are not the ones to pass legal (constitutional) judgement on these election issues, who the hell is?

By sticking their collective heads in the sand — and this is mostly John Roberts' doing, likely because there's blackmail dirt on him (Epstein's island probably) — his actions will be taking the whole Supreme Court down with him.

Really and truly, people, if they wiff this Crime Against the Country — for so it is — why should any of us ever pay any heed to whatever the Supreme Court rules in the future? Their abdication of "standing" in this matter is contemptible — and completely self-damning.

#3.1.2 PubliusII on 2020-12-23 21:34 (Reply)

"California has proved itself incapable of managing such basic things as water or even electricity."

So true! I am among the lucky in that I get to work from home on the East Coast with no decrease in pay or my output (so I am not in any immediate danger of being laid off - knock on wood); I also have several colleagues in California doing the same.

However, the scheduled power outages have become so routine that the California colleagues put these scheduled outages into our online team calendar so, just in case they are not online we will know why.

Seriously, scheduling time in the calendar to be off work due to planned power outages is so third-worldish and it is happening in California!

#4 charles on 2020-12-23 22:14 (Reply)

The "planned power outages" mostly happened in the rural "homes in the woods" rather than actual city folks. Because the power lines often fall down in high winds, and in the tinder-dry woods, can cause wildfires - like the one that consumed the city of Paradise, two years ago.

And because Pacific Gas and Electric kept "deferring" maintenance on the power lines to save money.

#4.1 Kenneth C Mitchell on 2020-12-23 23:21 (Reply)

We escaped California last August, never to return. We live in San Antonio, TX now.

I will admit that I voted for a Democrat in the last election; but only ONE. Sheriff Javier Salazar of Bexar County may call himself a Democrat, but he seems fairly conservative to me. At least, he didn't allow the Antifa/BLM mobs to run riot. And the Republican in that race had NO law enforcement experience.

#5 Kenneth C Mitchell on 2020-12-23 23:16 (Reply)

During the closing of the McDonald Douglas aircraft plant in Long Beach our area lost tens of thousands of good paying jobs in one day. When the plant closed for good in 2015 California lost the last of it's large commercial aircraft manufacturers. They had a hundred year run, during which time their high paying jobs laid the foundation for millions of success stories. The Los Angeles/ Orange County area has never recovered from that loss.

#6 Harmon on 2020-12-23 23:46 (Reply)

Worked at tbe Hughes Ground Systems plant in Fullerton plant once upon a time, then at the General Dynamics facility in Ontario. I was a tech writer in both places. This was in the mid to late 80s. The ship was sinking even then. Now in my late 50s and working in academia, I am seeking to finish my career here and have no immediate plans to leave. Change is possible here and if it is to be effected the time is now and I want to be a part of the reason it happens. There is so much here still worth fighting for and so many fine people to fight with. If I do leave eventually, trust me this Californian would make it redder.

#6.1 Laurie K on 2020-12-24 07:20 (Reply)

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