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There is a saying: As goes California so goes the rest of america...it is not looking good right now
California on 'verge of system failure’
Golden State, like many others, is nearly bankrupt and desperately needs a bailout
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Published on Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 6:01PM EDT
Last updated on Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 8:21PM EDT
Arnella Sims has seen a lot in her 34 years as a Los Angeles County court reporter, but nothing like this.
Case files piling up by the thousands, phones ringing off the hook, forced midweek courthouse closings and occasional brawls as frustrated citizens queue for hours to pay parking fines.
“People think we’re becoming a Third World country,” said Ms. Sims, 55. “They don’t understand.”
It’s a story that’s being repeated all across California – and throughout the United States – as cash-strapped state and local governments grapple with collapsed tax revenues and swelling budget gaps. Mass layoffs, slashed health and welfare services, closed parks, crumbling superhighways and ever-larger public school class sizes are all part of the new normal.
California’s fiscal hole is now so large that the state would have to liberate 168,000 prison inmates and permanently shutter 240 university and community college campuses to balance its budget in the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Think of California as Greece on the Pacific: bankrupt and desperately needing a bailout.
“We are on the verge of system failure,” warned Jean Ross, executive director of the California Budget Project, an independent think tank based in Sacramento.
None of this would matter much to anyone outside the not-so-Golden State except that California’s budget crisis is a harbinger of a grim dilemma that all Americans will soon confront. The country has built an elaborate and costly government machine, tied to a regressive tax system that can’t generate enough revenue to pay for it all.
Canadians too have a stake in all this. Dramatic cuts by state governments are threatening to derail the U.S. recovery, dampening expectations for global growth.
“This is a classic American dilemma,” explained Peter Dreier, a professor of politics and director of urban and environmental policy at Occidental College in Los Angeles. “Americans expect a lot of their government. But politicians have convinced them they’re not getting what they want.”
Americans have been “brainwashed” into believing they pay a lot of taxes, Prof. Dreier added. In fact, they are among the least-taxed people in the Western World, particularly if they’re wealthy, he said.
After unveiling a grim budget last month that scraps a popular welfare program for a million children and slashes countless other programs for the poor and elderly, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger complained that the state’s broken budget process has left him facing a “Sophie’s Choice.” That’s a reference to the story of the Polish Jew forced by the Nazis to choose between saving her son or her daughter from the Auschwitz gas chambers.
Experts say the U.S. government will inevitably have to come to the rescue, using its borrowing clout to save the state from near-bankruptcy or devastating service cuts. Do nothing, and the entire U.S. economy could be put at risk. California, like the country’s banks, may be too big to fail.
California is looking at a gap of $19-billion (U.S.) this year and $37-billion next year on a roughly $125-billion-a-year budget. Local governments, including the City of Los Angeles, are in similarly dire financial straits and are now scrambling to shed workers and services.
Red ink, from sea to shining sea
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“We have to get some federal money,” argued Ms. Ross of the California Budget Project. “The impact [of the Schwarzenegger budget] would be enough to slow down the U.S. economy. It would be bad for the U.S. and, arguably, bad for the world to do the shock therapy approach.”
And California isn’t alone in angling for a bailout. U.S. states are facing shortfalls totalling nearly $300-billion in 2010 and 2011; they also must wrestle with hundreds of billions more in unfunded pension obligations to their workers. “There are a few Greek crises brewing among the United States of America,” said economist Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research Inc.
The task is made all the more difficult because California and virtually all other states are barred by legislation from running operating deficits, forcing them to balance their budgets annually by slashing spending, raising taxes or both. Typically, states can only borrow short-term funds, or for capital projects.
Billionaire Warren Buffett, who advised U.S. President Barack Obama during his White House run, suggested recently that a Washington bailout of California and other troubled states is inevitable. How, he wondered, can Washington deny California after saying yes to General Motors, AIG and dozens of banks.
“I don’t know how you would tell a state you’re going to stiff-arm them with all the bailouts of corporations,” Mr. Buffett said.
The alternative for many state and local governments may be default. Mr. Buffett said many state and municipal bonds are only triple-A rated because investors assume there’s a federal backstop. “If the federal government won’t step in to help them, who knows what [the bonds] are,” he said.
How California, the largest and once most-prosperous state, got in this mess is a story decades in the making. It began with middle-class angst and a property tax revolt in the sprawling suburbs of Los Angeles. The movement would eventually sweep the country in the inflation-ravaged economy of the late 1970s, leaving government unable to pay for many of the services and entitlements people now take for granted.
John Serrano Jr., a social worker, was frustrated that he had to move his family out of East L.A. to find decent public schools for his children. He would eventually lend his name to a class-action lawsuit that would go all the way to the California Supreme Court. In a series of decisions, the court found the state’s school finance system to be unconstitutional for relying too heavily on local property taxes, which vary widely in poor and wealthy neighbourhoods. For example, a school in tony Beverly Hills would often get more than twice the funds per student than one in poor East L.A.
The landmark case would forever change the fiscal landscape of California, and many other states, shifting the financial burden of kindergarten to Grade 12 education from local to state governments, but not the tax base. K-12 education is now the State of California’s single largest expense, soaking up roughly a third of its budget.
A tax revolt would further tilt the tax burden to the state and deprive local governments of their most stable funding source – property taxes.
In the mid-1970s, California property taxes were soaring, along with real estate values, and incomes couldn’t keep pace. The result was a campaign, financed by L.A.-area apartment landlords, that culminated in the now-infamous Proposition 13 ballot initiative in 1978.
Prop. 13 rolled back and capped both residential and commercial property tax rates at 1975 levels. And it virtually guaranteed that only a revolution would reverse the measure. Proposition 13 imposed a two-thirds majority requirement for all tax bills and required local voters to approve all municipal tax increases.
“California put itself in a straitjacket that it hasn’t been able to get out of,” Occidental College’s Prof. Dreier explained.
In the years since Prop. 13, California has come to the rescue of local governments, taking on ever-greater responsibility for schools, low-income health care and welfare. And it has paid for all that with volatile sales and income tax revenue, making it tough to balance its budget when the economy stalls.
“A lot of people predicted doom and gloom in 1978. It just took a long time,” said John Tanner, executive director of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents 85,000 government workers in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California.
Prop. 13, according to Mr. Tanner, has put schools, courts, parks and a raft of other government services in a downward spiral. “We are at an unacceptable place right now,” he said.
Perhaps no group of workers feels more targeted in the crisis than teachers. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has warned that without money from Congress as many as 300,000 teachers nationwide could lose their jobs to state budget cuts, including several thousand in California.
“It’s not easy being me these days,” said A.J. Duffy, president of the United Teachers of Los Angeles. “I have 45,000 members looking to me to save their jobs.”
His union represents teachers and other employees at 700-plus L.A. schools, where as many as 1,200 jobs are threatened.
“We’re destroying education as we know it,” Mr. Duffy lamented. “My teachers will do a great job no matter what. But it’s harder and harder to deliver the quality of education we’ve had.”
California public schools were once a beacon for the country. Now, the state ranks dead-last in student-teacher ratios, 45th in per-student spending and 36th in high school graduation.
The tax structure may be badly flawed. But even union activists acknowledge that repealing Prop. 13 outright is probably a non-starter. Recent polls show support for keeping a lid on property taxes remains strong, in spite of the budget crisis.
Experts say tax reform is the only option for California, short of a massive and unprecedented shrinking of government. And that requires an “open conversation” between voters and their elected leaders, and almost certainly higher taxes, according to Ms. Ross, the economist.
If you want good schools, you have to pay for them,” she said. “Cutting taxes doesn’t raise revenue.”
That kind of talk angers Kris Vosburgh, executive director of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, named after the L.A. homeowner who led the Prop. 13 campaign and dedicated to ensuring it’s never overturned. He said California is a high-tax state with generously paid government workers, and recession-weary taxpayers have no money to pay more.
“The bank is empty,” Mr. Vosburgh complained.
“We have tried to be all things to all people and we can’t afford to do that any more.”
But in California, and elsewhere, the price will be steep – in lost jobs and vanishing services.
Carliose Lane, 37, an animal licensing official for the City of Los Angeles, knows the city, and the state, are in a budget bind. But he can’t understand why he and the city’s entire team of animal fee collectors must pay the price with their jobs. Who, he wondered, will collect the money that pays for the city’s shelters and pet control operations after he’s laid off on July 1.
“Laying me off isn’t going to solve the city’s budget problems,” said Mr. Lane, whose $32,300-a-year salary helps support a wife and three children. “It will make them worse.”
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doesn't help when you have savages burning down Los Angeles every year.
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They'll keep falling further into the hole until following Arizona's lead and doing something about illegals.
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CA, like NY, has bankrupted itelf to lavish all its money on illegals, govt workers,, govt unions, and stupid programs.
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CA, like NY, has bankrupted itelf to lavish all its money on illegals, govt workers,, govt unions, and stupid programs.
New York is trying to sneak in another tax increase.
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NY, IL, CA, pays far to much to non-productive people.
We had a few cops at my self defense class the other night almost lynch me when I told them I did not want to pay more taxes to keep funding their pensions and OT.
Its the same w teachers, firemen, cops, govt parks people, etc etc,
I have said it for years and the writing is on the wall.
Dont even get me started about Medicade!
The bottom line is that we as states, cities, and a nation are paying far too much to unproductive people. Its called the road to serfdom as Hayek wrote 50 years ago.
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This girl has solutions to help Cali ;D
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doesn't help when you have savages burning down Los Angeles every year.
Yeah..I could not believe the leprous firemen were setting the forest fires in order to save their jobs... what a bunch of assholes not considering the urban and suburban populations and homes that would be effected. But like you said when those savages realized they did not have the intelligence to find another cushy job like that in any other capacity...they did what they knew best...and that is/was to set forest fires to make itself indispensable. I SAY HANG THEM ALL!!!!
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CA, like NY, has bankrupted itelf to lavish all its money on illegals, govt workers,, govt unions, and stupid programs.
You mean the Wall Street corruption, bad investments and real estate shenanigans that cost the state hundreds of BILLIONS is now NOT responsible for its state of being like the rest of america???
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They'll keep falling further into the hole until following Arizona's lead and doing something about illegals.
Yep, and the article seemed to be trying to keep away from having to confront that reality.
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They'll keep falling further into the hole until following Arizona's lead and doing something about illegals.
REFOCUS.... Problem of corruption, budget shortfalls and stealing existed LONG before any so called illegals. The "illegals" have become the scapegoat to blame all of your troubles on. Nonetheless more is extracted from the "illegals" than is or will ever be spent on them in the form of the imaginary healthcare you think they receive.
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'It's decimated down here': About 85% of San Francisco FiDi, SoMa restaurants are closed
SF Gate ^ | December 9, 2020 | by Susana Guerrero
Posted on 12/10/2020, 8:20:07 AM by Oldeconomybuyer
The sight of hurried business types carrying boxed salad was typical of San Francisco’s downtown lunch rush before March. But as the business crowd remains at home, that once familiar scene has since been replaced with emptied streets and dimmed storefronts.
Ever since the pandemic wrought havoc on restaurants and bars around the Financial District and South of Market, Adam Mesnick says his sandwich shop, Deli Board, has become something of a destination for customers who happen to be in the neighborhood for coffee or walking to an appointment.
“It's decimated down here. I mean, the whole time, you're sort of watching this crumble happen,” Mesnick said about the current state of business around SoMa and the FiDi districts.
To describe these former bustling neighborhoods as “decimated” wouldn't be a far stretch either. Based on credit card usage data gathered by Mastercard and shared with San Francisco's Chamber of Commerce, about 293 of 344 (or 85%) of bars and restaurants are presumed closed.
“I think the fundamental scary thing for downtown, SoMa and to some by the Moscone Center is just the lack of business customers and the day-to-day people who are the bread and butter of the cafes and places that haven't even reopened,” said Laurie Thomas, the executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. “So much of these downtown restaurants, and certainly the ones by Moscone Center, are really dependent on business travel. I think we're going to need the vaccine before the state's going to let us have conventions.”
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Finally after 10 years? lol
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Yep, and the article seemed to be trying to keep away from having to confront that reality.
They never admit their plan isn't working.
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Oracle Moves To Texas As Silicon Valley Exodus Accelerates
USSA News ^ | 12/11/2020 | Tyler Durden
Posted on 12/11/2020, 5:29:02 PM by SeekAndFind
The California Exodus continues, as Oracle has become the latest tech company to leave the Golden State for Texas.
The company noted the move at the very bottom of their latest 10-Q, the tech company founded 43 years ago in Santa Clara, California announced that they would be "implementing a more flexible employee work location policy and has changed its Corporate Headquarters from Redwood City, California to Austin, Texas," where the company opened a massive 40-acre riverfront campus in 2018 with the capacity for up to 10,000 employees.
The company says the move will "best position Oracle for growth and provide our personnel with more flexibility about where and how they work." Most Oracle employees will be able to choose their office location, or continue to work from home part time or full time, the company told CNBC.
"In addition, we will continue to support major hubs for Oracle around the world, including those in the United States such as Redwood City, Austin, Santa Monica, Seattle, Denver, Orlando and Burlington, among others, and we expect to add other locations over time," the company added. "By implementing a more modern approach to work, we expect to further improve our employees' quality of life and quality of output."
What they don't mention is that California also has some of the highest taxes in the nation, an outrageous cost of living, an explosion in homelessness, crumbling infrastructure and seasonal wildfires which continue to make living in 'paradise' a living hell. Last December, Oracle ditched San Francisco as the longstanding venue for its OpenWorld conference, citing expensive hotel rooms and 'poor street conditions' - depriving the city of an estimated $64 million per year after the company moved the event to Las Vegas.
Indeed, the exodus out of California is real and ongoing. Oracle's move follows that of Hewlett Packard, which announced earlier this month that it would be relocating its headquarters from San Jose, California to Houston, Texas. Meanwhile, Palantir Technologies moved its headquarters from Palo Alto, California to Denver, Colorado earlier this year. Meanwhile, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and comedian Joe Rogan left the Golden State for Texas.
"They do tend to get a little complacent, a little entitled, and then they don't win the championship any more," said Musk, comparing California to a sports team, adding that the state "has been winning for a long time, and I think they're taking [firms] for granted a little bit."
Data from moving company moveBuddha.com (via Market Crumbs) shows Texas is by far the most popular destination for those leaving the San Francisco Bay area. So far this year, 16% of outbound Bay Area residents moved to the state. That's more than the combined total going to next two most popular states—Washington and New York, which accounted for 7.9% and 6.5% of the outbound total, respectively.
Austin is attracting the bulk of the new Texas residents as 7% of outbound Bay Area residents are moving to the city. Two additional Texas cities made the list of the top 15 most popular destinations as Dallas and Houston ranked 8th and 12th, respectively.
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HP one of the founding companies of Silicon Valley is leaving California for Houston Texas.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Leave Silicon Valley for Texas
By Nico Grant and Ian King
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. will move its headquarters to Houston, a major shift for a founding Silicon Valley computer maker now seeking haven in a lower-cost region while making way for a new generation of nimbler mobile and consumer-web giants.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-01/hewlett-packard-enterprise-reports-revenue-that-beat-estimates (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-01/hewlett-packard-enterprise-reports-revenue-that-beat-estimates)
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GaVIn NewScUm iz DoIng SUch a GrEaT JoB ::)
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HP one of the founding companies of Silicon Valley is leaving California for Houston Texas.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Leave Silicon Valley for Texas
By Nico Grant and Ian King
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. will move its headquarters to Houston, a major shift for a founding Silicon Valley computer maker now seeking haven in a lower-cost region while making way for a new generation of nimbler mobile and consumer-web giants.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-01/hewlett-packard-enterprise-reports-revenue-that-beat-estimates (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-01/hewlett-packard-enterprise-reports-revenue-that-beat-estimates)
The problem is that all of these leftists move to Texas and will turn it blue. California will be full of illegals and will stay blue.
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I don’t have time for this.
I’m “amending” my taxes to hide $400,000 of illegal Ukrainian money.
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https://vtpost.com/oracle-hewlett-packard-elon-musk-and-now-the-rose-bowl-the-iconic-college-football-game-the-latest-california-icon-to-move-to-texas/?fbclid=IwAR0Btwv_HjplqESlFOfgaAvRcNntdhm42Q6fI5VPuxLGsrb-IXG1DBSM-lE
Rose Bowl moving to Texas.
FU Californication
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Weren't you all sounding off about how California was going to go BK about 10 years ago?
Is it real this time? lol
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Weren't you all sounding off about how California was going to go BK about 10 years ago?
Is it real this time? lol
More people are leaving that hellscape than ever, businesses fleeing etc.
Its amazing how communists and liberals create their utopia and then its a disaster, and then these same losers and failures like Straw , pelosi, and other circus freak show characters migrate to other states fleeing the mess they made and try it yet again expecting a different result.
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More people are leaving that hellscape than ever, businesses fleeing etc.
Its amazing how communists and liberals create their utopia and then its a disaster, and then these same losers and failures like Straw , pelosi, and other circus freak show characters migrate to other states fleeing the mess they made and try it yet again expecting a different result.
Straw and Pelosi both don't live in Cali any longer?
I don't know how much blame is on one political party in states like NY, IL, CA where there are large populations in urban areas. The system in this country overall isn't working. We don't have market competition in the places we need to.
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Straw and Pelosi both don't live in Cali any longer?
I don't know how much blame is on one political party in states like NY, IL, CA where there are large populations in urban areas. The system in this country overall isn't working. We don't have market competition in the places we need to.
Exactly - these are one party failed states like Cuba, NK, VZ, the USSR. One party rules.
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Exactly - these are one party failed states like Cuba, NK, VZ, the USSR. One party rules.
Nah, horrible comparison.
Where are we flourishing in the this country?
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Nah, horrible comparison.
Where are we flourishing in the this country?
Florida and Texas - where people are fleeing to.
People are leaving liberal disasters like Shitcago, NYC, and Californication
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Under Gavin's Watch: So Many People Fled California It Could Lose a Congressional Seat in Census
PJ Media ^ | 12/21/2020 | Victoria Taft
Posted on 12/21/2020, 2:19:57
Eureka! We found that gold you hear about in California. And it just left.
California lost so many people in the last decade that when the census numbers are all tabulated, it could lose a congressional seat. Even the state’s Rose Bowl game just left for Texas.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports the California Department of Finance says the state grew by only 21,200 residents in the past year, the lowest since 1900.
“This is a real sea change in California, which used to be this state of pretty robust population growth,” said Hans Johnson, a demographer at the Public Policy Institute of California. “It hasn’t been for some time now. But it’s now gotten to the point where the state is essentially not growing population-wise at all.”
[…] If the trends continue statewide and California’s population decreases, one of the most immediate effects could be the loss of a seat in Congress, Johnson said.
A Facebook group for people fleeing California that I’ve been monitoring for months is teeming with tales of getting the heck out of the Golden State. They don’t want to leave, but Leftist politics, remote work, fires, high energy prices, and high taxes force their hand.
They post photos of the homeless camps, rates for moving vans, give tips on where you can get a coveted 26′ truck from UHaul, ask for help in finding the most conservative cities in America to move to. They call on fleeing Californians to respect the beliefs of the state they’re moving to. Another person posts a parody article saying Texas has issued a stay-at-home order for Californians. A woman posts a receipt from a San Francisco parking garage to explain how the city is bleeding her dry.
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Under Gavin's Watch: So Many People Fled California It Could Lose a Congressional Seat in Census
PJ Media ^ | 12/21/2020 | Victoria Taft
Posted on 12/21/2020, 2:19:57
Eureka! We found that gold you hear about in California. And it just left.
California lost so many people in the last decade that when the census numbers are all tabulated, it could lose a congressional seat. Even the state’s Rose Bowl game just left for Texas.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports the California Department of Finance says the state grew by only 21,200 residents in the past year, the lowest since 1900.
“This is a real sea change in California, which used to be this state of pretty robust population growth,” said Hans Johnson, a demographer at the Public Policy Institute of California. “It hasn’t been for some time now. But it’s now gotten to the point where the state is essentially not growing population-wise at all.”
[…] If the trends continue statewide and California’s population decreases, one of the most immediate effects could be the loss of a seat in Congress, Johnson said.
A Facebook group for people fleeing California that I’ve been monitoring for months is teeming with tales of getting the heck out of the Golden State. They don’t want to leave, but Leftist politics, remote work, fires, high energy prices, and high taxes force their hand.
They post photos of the homeless camps, rates for moving vans, give tips on where you can get a coveted 26′ truck from UHaul, ask for help in finding the most conservative cities in America to move to. They call on fleeing Californians to respect the beliefs of the state they’re moving to. Another person posts a parody article saying Texas has issued a stay-at-home order for Californians. A woman posts a receipt from a San Francisco parking garage to explain how the city is bleeding her dry.
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I thought Cali got pretty bad right around 2008. I had lived there 30 years up to that point and wasn't bad IMO. I left in 2017. Frankly it was too expensive, too congested, and too much crime. Don't know too much about Florida, but Texas is not the best place either for different reasons.
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San Francisco officials demand explanation for outdoor dining ban
KRON4 ^ | 12/18/2020 | Maureen Kelly
Posted on 12/21/2020, 3:31:24
...outcry over the ban on outdoor dining continues to grow.
...some San Francisco elected officials will be holding an emergency meeting next week, in order to demand that public health officials clearly explain the reasons why.
Parklets stand empty on 18th street in Potrero Hill as outdoor dining has been shut down under the new health order.
It’s something Supervisor Matt Haney supports.
“...we also need to have a conversation about the ways that this could lead people to go inside and do more risky activities,” Haney said. “Everything that I’ve seen has shown that the single most risky thing you can do to get this virus is to be inside with other people especially in gatherings, I haven’t seen any data at all to show that outdoor especially with one or two other people dining we’re going on a walk to a park is contributing to the spread at all.”
Push back on the ban on outdoor dining is happening in many places around the state.
On Friday, a group of Sacramento lawmakers signed a letter to the Alcoholic Beverage Control to immediately cease enforcement of the ban.
The owner of a Martinez bar and restaurant is one of several establishments suing Contra Costa County for enforcing the ban ahead of the state last week. He says he can’t make it on take out only and has had to lay off staff.
“It’s just me to cook now. I went to five employees to two, and one’s a single mom, how is she supposed to pay her bills? She has rent to pay, she’s a little kid, my business like others it’s like a family we’re here to look out for each other,” Corey Katz said. “And how can I look out for my family if I’m being handcuffed.”
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Maybe it's a misprint, but the Oregonian stated that for a single person to get the $600 stimulus check they had to make less than $75,000 last year. Not sure if it will be prorated as was the first one, phasing out at $99,000. Seems fair enough, though there are undoubtedly people who earned over $75 G last year but have been out of work this year. What happens to them?
Gmafb. 600 is a fng insulting slap in the damn face. Total nonsense. What a damn waste of time.
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Maybe it's a misprint, but the Oregonian stated that for a single person to get the $600 stimulus check they had to make less than $75,000 last year. Not sure if it will be prorated as was the first one, phasing out at $99,000. Seems fair enough, though there are undoubtedly people who earned over $75 G last year but have been out of work this year. What happens to them?
I think all taxpayers should get a check that is a ration of their earning.
These checks are just to shut people up, they won't help.
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I thought Cali got pretty bad right around 2008. I had lived there 30 years up to that point and wasn't bad IMO. I left in 2017. Frankly it was too expensive, too congested, and too much crime. Don't know too much about Florida, but Texas is not the best place either for different reasons.
The shit you say? Texas is great for a whole host of reasons: lower cost of living, great business environment, food/drinks/entertainment, third largest city with more diversity than NYC, LA or Chicago.
It gets hot as shit down here in the summer but lows in the winter rarely break freezing in the winter in Houston.
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Six Arrested, Including 4 Juveniles, in Beating Death of Family Services Counselor ( Los Angeles )
City News Service ^ | January 4, 2021
Posted on 1/6/2021, 9:08:05 AM by george76
Six people were arrested on suspicion of murder in a weekend assault that left a 25-year-old Los Angeles family services counselor dead, sheriff's officials said Monday.
Deputies were called about 9:50 p.m. Saturday to 5300 Angeles Vista Blvd. in the unincorporated Windsor Hills area, the site of Wayfinder Family Services, a nonprofit organization that provides support services to children, adults and families, said Deputy Joana Warren of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
They found David Mcknight-Hillman, who worked at the organization, suffering from injuries that indicated he was beaten, Warren said.
Mcknight-Hillman, who was responsible for "the day-to-day care of the residents" at Wayfinder, was taken to a hospital, where he died, she said.
Investigators determined that Mcknight-Hillman was attempting to break up a fight when he was assaulted by seven people -- two 18-year-olds and five juveniles, according to Warren. Six of the suspects have been arrested, including the two 18-year-olds, who were booked into jail on suspicion of murder, Warren said.
The adults were identified as Nyier Mason and Keith Lewis.
One juvenile suspect has not been found.
Detectives are continuing to investigate the death, Warren said, adding that anyone with information should call the Sheriff's Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.
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This year instead of exchanging Christmas gifts my family and I are donating what we would have otherwise spent to help house, feed and clothe people (specially the children) who have nothing left but the charity of others thanks to the pandemic.
We did the same thing. Instead of gifts for each other, we all donated to local charity.
Also, all of us are using local owned small businesses instead of big box stores/chains until things settle down.
I don't mind paying a little more if i know it's going to the right people.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/11/gavin-newsom-california-scramble-fallen-apart-456665?utm_source=pocket-newtab&fbclid=IwAR3T2R_k44ApOoaFDfY6EEwQZU2HG6n-RieC2smkGiAHuLOaLP5lkrVKlMU
Gee ya think? :D
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California may have its own highly contagious homegrown COVID-19 strain
nypost ^ | 01/25/2021 | Joe Tacopiono
Posted on 1/25/2021, 9:36:00 AM
Scientists in California believe there is a homegrown coronavirus strain in the state that could be responsible for the dramatic rise in cases, a report said Sunday.
Two separate research groups have discovered the apparent California strain while looking for the new variant that is believed to have come from the United Kingdom, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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https://news.yahoo.com/california-miracle-dissolved-winter-coronavirus-140021007.html
Remember all the libfags saying how good Fonrnia was on this?
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California has been on the verge of collapse for 20+ years....
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California has been on the verge of collapse for 20+ years....
California is only in competition with NYS for the worst of the worst in every category lately.
Keep supporting these losers.
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California is only in competition with NYS for the worst of the worst in every category lately.
Keep supporting these losers.
All i am saying is this isn't the first time people have said Cali is doomed. Yet, it keeps going and going.
I moved from Cali in 2017. I miss it for a lot of reasons and don't miss it for a lot of reasons.
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All i am saying is this isn't the first time people have said Cali is doomed. Yet, it keeps going and going.
I moved from Cali in 2017. I miss it for a lot of reasons and don't miss it for a lot of reasons.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/Washington-and-Lincoln-are-out-S-F-school-board-15900963.php
one F up at a time
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geroge floyd felon university coming soon
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/Washington-and-Lincoln-are-out-S-F-school-board-15900963.php
one F up at a time
Big waste of time IMO. But so what? Its not bringing Cali down nor contributing to it in any meaningful way.
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Big waste of time IMO. But so what? Its not bringing Cali down nor contributing to it in any meaningful way.
Every minute wasted on this nonsense is a minute not fixing the problems
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Every minute wasted on this nonsense is a minute not fixing the problems
Yeah, good point. Like the problem of people shitting on sidewalks.
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Yeah, good point. Like the problem of people shitting on sidewalks.
Guiliani - hate em or love em - he got it - he cleaned up the street crime and tourists came back. Tourists dont want be doing hurdles over Straw Man poops on the side walks.
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that was 20 years ago, before he lost his mind.
Yes agreed - but the point was that people dont want to be during broad jumps over homeless and Straw Poops in the street.
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Guiliani - hate em or love em - he got it - he cleaned up the street crime and tourists came back. Tourists dont want be doing hurdles over Straw Man poops on the side walks.
That's the NYC I left nearly 30 years ago. It's very sad that it seems to be returning. :P
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Newsom’s Approval Ratings Crash: Are Californians Finally Waking Up?
dbdailyupdate ^ | David Blackmon
Posted on 2/4/2021, 7:41:41
Better late than never. – It’s taken almost a full year, but Californians appear to finally be waking up to the reality of the ghoul they put into the governor’s office. No governor in America has abused his or her citizens under the umbrella of COVID response quite to the extent that Gavin Newsom has done to the people of California. This is a guy who has not just ordered his people to stay home cowering in their living rooms for months on end, shut down businesses and thrown people out of work, he has repeatedly made a public spectacle of oafishly violating his own orders and even tailored some provisions to ensure his own high-dollar Napa Valley vineyard suffered minimal impacts.
Yet through all of that, all of those orders that have zero “science” or “data” to really support their need, California has managed to establish perhaps the worst record of any state in actually dealing with the virus’s spread. Finally, a new poll released on Wednesday appears to indicate that most Californians are catching onto the ruse. The new poll, from the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, shows that Newsom’s public approval rating has plummeted by 18 points in just the last 3 months.
From a story at the Washington Examiner:
A new poll conducted by the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies found that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s job approval rating plummeted by 18 percentage points in three months. In October, he had a 49% approval rating; in January it dropped to 31%.
Also, 36% of respondents said they support the recall effort against Newsom, which has gained popularity among Democrats.
Roughly 31% of those polled said Newsom has done an excellent or good job in handling the coronavirus, down from 49% in September. Only 22% of respondents gave a favorable response to the state’s vaccine rollout.
The poll was conducted online and included more than 10,000 registered voters. Conducted during the last week of January in both English and Spanish, it’s margin of error is +/- 2 percentage points.
The Los Angeles Times reported that “… even his political allies begin to question the actions he has taken,” which “… provides a sobering sign for the 53-year-old Democrat that his once bright political future, for years the subject of whispers about a potential White House run, has lost some of its shine.”
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That’s not encouraging at all for a governor who must run for re-election next year, regardless of how the current effort to force a recall election against him this year turns out.
That recall petition effort on Newsom continues to proceed with great success, at last report having collected more than 1.3 million of the 1.495 million signatures necessary to force a special recall election later this year. Candidates are already lining up to challenge Newsom on the assumption that the petition effort will be successful, among them right-wing activist Mike Cernvich – who admits he would have “no chance in hell” of defeating Newsom in a runoff election – and billionaire venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, who might stand a better chance.
No doubt many challengers will get in line to try to form up a strong effort to rid the state of the Newsom plague, but no one should be overly optimistic about the Governor ultimately being forced from office. After all, he does have a D by his name on the ballot, and, while many Californians are angry about his serial abuse of their human and constitutional rights throughout this pandemic, we have to remember that most of them will just automatically go back into standard Democrat brainwash mode when it comes down to actually voting for anyone who does not have a D by their name.
These people have collectively behaved like a herd of sheep for more than 30 years now, and never been able to figure out the connection between how they vote and the fact that their state continues to devolve into a 3rd world banana republic before their very eyes. They appear to possess no ability at all to draw a simple ’cause and effect’ conclusion that is so obvious to pretty much everyone else.
Bottom line: Despite this latest encouraging poll, it would be a mistake to assume that translates into an actual positive result on election day.
That is all.
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Guiliani - hate em or love em - he got it - he cleaned up the street crime and tourists came back. Tourists dont want be doing hurdles over Straw Man poops on the side walks.
I remember him doing that good stuff years ago.
What happened to him?
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Newsom’s Approval Ratings Crash: Are Californians Finally Waking Up?
dbdailyupdate ^ | David Blackmon
Posted on 2/4/2021, 7:41:41
Better late than never. – It’s taken almost a full year, but Californians appear to finally be waking up to the reality of the ghoul they put into the governor’s office. No governor in America has abused his or her citizens under the umbrella of COVID response quite to the extent that Gavin Newsom has done to the people of California. This is a guy who has not just ordered his people to stay home cowering in their living rooms for months on end, shut down businesses and thrown people out of work, he has repeatedly made a public spectacle of oafishly violating his own orders and even tailored some provisions to ensure his own high-dollar Napa Valley vineyard suffered minimal impacts.
Yet through all of that, all of those orders that have zero “science” or “data” to really support their need, California has managed to establish perhaps the worst record of any state in actually dealing with the virus’s spread. Finally, a new poll released on Wednesday appears to indicate that most Californians are catching onto the ruse. The new poll, from the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, shows that Newsom’s public approval rating has plummeted by 18 points in just the last 3 months.
From a story at the Washington Examiner:
A new poll conducted by the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies found that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s job approval rating plummeted by 18 percentage points in three months. In October, he had a 49% approval rating; in January it dropped to 31%.
Also, 36% of respondents said they support the recall effort against Newsom, which has gained popularity among Democrats.
Roughly 31% of those polled said Newsom has done an excellent or good job in handling the coronavirus, down from 49% in September. Only 22% of respondents gave a favorable response to the state’s vaccine rollout.
The poll was conducted online and included more than 10,000 registered voters. Conducted during the last week of January in both English and Spanish, it’s margin of error is +/- 2 percentage points.
The Los Angeles Times reported that “… even his political allies begin to question the actions he has taken,” which “… provides a sobering sign for the 53-year-old Democrat that his once bright political future, for years the subject of whispers about a potential White House run, has lost some of its shine.”
[End]
That’s not encouraging at all for a governor who must run for re-election next year, regardless of how the current effort to force a recall election against him this year turns out.
That recall petition effort on Newsom continues to proceed with great success, at last report having collected more than 1.3 million of the 1.495 million signatures necessary to force a special recall election later this year. Candidates are already lining up to challenge Newsom on the assumption that the petition effort will be successful, among them right-wing activist Mike Cernvich – who admits he would have “no chance in hell” of defeating Newsom in a runoff election – and billionaire venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, who might stand a better chance.
No doubt many challengers will get in line to try to form up a strong effort to rid the state of the Newsom plague, but no one should be overly optimistic about the Governor ultimately being forced from office. After all, he does have a D by his name on the ballot, and, while many Californians are angry about his serial abuse of their human and constitutional rights throughout this pandemic, we have to remember that most of them will just automatically go back into standard Democrat brainwash mode when it comes down to actually voting for anyone who does not have a D by their name.
These people have collectively behaved like a herd of sheep for more than 30 years now, and never been able to figure out the connection between how they vote and the fact that their state continues to devolve into a 3rd world banana republic before their very eyes. They appear to possess no ability at all to draw a simple ’cause and effect’ conclusion that is so obvious to pretty much everyone else.
Bottom line: Despite this latest encouraging poll, it would be a mistake to assume that translates into an actual positive result on election day.
That is all.
that's great. He's a juiced in turd.
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that's great. He's a juiced in turd.
Voting in Democrats to any office has typical results like this. My idiot state of NYS w Cuomo is experiencing similar disasters.
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All i am saying is this isn't the first time people have said Cali is doomed. Yet, it keeps going and going.
I moved from Cali in 2017. I miss it for a lot of reasons and don't miss it for a lot of reasons.
It's gotten worse since 2017.
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https://fb.watch/3BfsoYi8O0
Net migration outward
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Not at all a coup; it's in the state's constitution. It's our response to the virus that has devastated CA. We've got the signatures, but I think he'll survive the recall election, because there's no Arnold this year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-11/recall-gavin-newsom-california-governor-gets-the-message
A California Coup? Gavin Newsom Has a Problem on His Hands As a recall effort shows, it’s a bad time for a governor to be identified with San Francisco and intransigent teachers’ unions.
After nearly a year under some of the nation’s — indeed, the world’s — toughest Covid-19 restrictions, Californians are increasingly frustrated. With little sympathy from elected officials, they’ve endured mass layoffs, wrecked businesses and lost schooling. They’ve even lost their Disneyland annual passes. Yet the virus has still devastated the state.
Now they’re taking out their frustrations on Governor Gavin Newsom, who for many epitomizes governmental high-handedness and dysfunction. It doesn’t help that the governor suffers from what could be called resting smug face. Or that he comes from San Francisco, which exemplifies the combination of scary vagrants, general disorder and sky-high housing prices that makes Californians wonder how their state got so broken. (Not to mention the school district is against George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.)
Petitions to force a vote on whether to recall Newsom look likely to succeed — despite the obstacles to collecting signatures during a pandemic. Instead of relying on paid canvassers outside supermarkets, campaigners have to convince supporters to circulate and mail petitions individually.
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Get that sumbitch out already. ::)
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