California on the road to Venezuela

POSTED BY: AURaptor
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AURAPTOR

Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:06 AM

No power for 3,4, 5 DAYS, human crap in the streets, drug needles, and diseases!

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:24 AM

I wish they all could be California Girls

Do Right, Be Right. :)

1KIKI

Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:33 AM

When Trump sanctions CA trade with anybody like he did with Venezuela, then the state will be in deep trouble. Until then, it's not about to be anywhere close.

AURAPTOR

Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:02 PM

Huh? What does Trump have to do with any thing per this topic? CA is doing all this on their own. Have been for quite some time. Try not to deflect & look at what is going on today. Like power outages scheduled to last for days... taking place as we speak.

LOL @ trying to pin Venezuela’s decades old problem on Trump. Good grief.

1KIKI

Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:41 PM

Venezuela had // one, 1, uno, un, ein // product to sell on the global market, which was oil. But the US embargoed Venezuelan oil, and confiscated its assets located outside of the country (as did other countries, like BoE confiscating Venezuela's gold), and ran cyber-ops to cripple the power grid (till Russian troops put a stop to it). Those are pretty serious economic acts of war.

Fortunately California hasn't been targeted like that.

I think one of California's biggest reasons for homelessness is the climate.

WAY back when, I used to set up sound reinforcement equipment for summer outdoor concerts in the NE. (Yep, that was me, wheeling big speakers around, setting up mike stands, and laying cable.) Anyway, the bums, as we called, them would always hang around the concerts because it was something to do. But when winter came many of them would ride the rails to California, because otherwise they'd, yanno, freeze to death. (Or they'd get ripping drunk and check themselves into the County Hospital detox unit for three hots and a cot. And some I think would find a way into the county jail for the same reason.) So, lots of homeless people come to California for the weather to - let me repeat this - avoid freezing to death. It was and is an actual plan.

California also has a REALLY large illegal immigrant population - the kind that employers like to exploit with off-the-books 'employment' featuring too much work, really low wages, and no benefits, and / or 'independent contractor' and 'gig' work.

In addition, California has REALLY expensive housing - it's those fantastic market forces at work! because nobody builds low-cost or even middle-cost housing (there's no money in it), and housing bubbles amp up prices beyond reach.

All in all, there are a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with California's policies on anything that draw a lot of the homeless, illegal immigrants, unemployed, and marginally employed to the area; or that create homelessness. And it's an option, because if worse comes to worse, you won't freeze to death if you live under an overpass or along the riverbeds or in your car.

That said, California also has some serious pandering to illegal immigrants.

AURAPTOR

Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:53 PM

Also California

https://m.ph.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/unprecedented-califo
rnia-blackout-plunges-millions-into-darkness-64806?ampMode=1

1KIKI

Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:58 PM

Like the rest of the country California has a really big infrastructure problem. I mean, haven't you noticed all the buildings in the east getting blown up by gas explosions?

SIGNYM

Thursday, October 10, 2019 11:23 PM

30% of homeless people come from out of state. The entire west coast, with its mild climate, has that problem.

One of the solutions that I proposed in the thread about homelessness is to send these people back to their nearest relatives after a stint of involuntary treatment, because if you combine a mild climate with benefits you create a powerful magnet for the homeless from across the nation.

And yep ... CA's do-gooder policies also encourage illegal aliens to roost here. NOT a smart idea!

So some of CA's problems are self-inflicted, but many of CA's problems are from forces beyond its control; The Fed;s low-low interest rate policy creating a real estate bubble? The desire of private companies not to invest in their own infrastrcture? Those are national problems, not just in CA.

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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

AURAPTOR

Thursday, October 10, 2019 11:43 PM

The obvious point here is that California is over regulating, overtaxing mismanaging, while micromanaging itself into oblivion .

And it doesn’t have to be that way. People have a choice, and should exercise their right to choose better.

1KIKI

Thursday, October 10, 2019 11:47 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
The obvious point here is that California is over regulating, overtaxing mismanaging, while micromanaging itself into oblivion .

And it doesn’t have to be that way. People have a choice, and should exercise their right to choose better.

How is it obvious?

And yeah, people DO have a choice, which is why many of the nation's homeless come to - California! How is that a product of CA's over-regulation?

How is PG&E's bankruptcy - caused by its own failure to meet its own stated standard of maintenance - a problem of CA's over-regulation?

Draw the line between your claims and evidence!

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