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California: Progressive Paradise
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Erinwltr
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Wonderful Echo Chamber going on in this OP.They’re always looking to create some sort of ‘paradise,’ those wacky totalitarians, aren’t they?
Remember that great ‘Workers Paradise’ behind the Iron Curtain???
Now….the American version……California.
1.Did Longfellow live in California????
Maybe not….but he sure knew about it:
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
2.“Everyone thinks California is our most progressive state. And why not? It imposes the highest tax on the richest one percent. It is aggressively implementing Obamacare. And it is standing up to President Donald Trump on everything from immigration to the environment.
And yet the Golden State is also number one in poverty and inequality in America.
3.If racism is more than just saying nasty things — if it is, as scholars like James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Michelle Alexander and countless others have described, embedded into socioeconomic structures — then California isn’t just the least progressive state. It’s also the most racist.
4.Homeless encampments of hundreds of people have cropped up around the state in the last two years. Occasionally, they are ravaged by hepatitis A,…
5….workers in California earn 11 percent more than their counterparts nationally. But that amount is not enough to make up for mortgage payments and rents that are 44 percent and 37 percent higher (respectively) than the national average.
6.Environmentalism is used to justify de facto racial segregation in California’s housing. Environmental lawsuits are a major reason for longer delays and higher costs of new housing. “The core legal structure of CEQA,” notes housing attorney Jennifer Hernandez, “protects the existing characteristics of those neighborhoods and thus perpetuates land use practices founded in race and class discrimination.”
7. Consider:
· In the name of helping the poor and protecting the environment, California has placed myriad restrictions and fees on building new housing units, driving up their price;
· Progressive local governments like San Francisco and Santa Monica block even those housing projects that comply with zoning laws progressives had agreed to;
8. Progressive leaders who daily denounce Republicans as racist have blithely presided over a significant decline in the academic performance of black and Latino eighth graders relative to their counterparts in other states. Today, less than 40 percent of non-white and non-Asian students meet state educational standards… When the cost of living is taken into account, California spends less on K-12 education than all but four other states.
9. A decade-long reform effort in Washington, D.C. showed that student performance can be improved significantly by rewarding teachers for performance and replacing underperforming teachers.
But California has rejected similar reforms. Progressives won’t even allow delaying teacher tenure from two to three years to ensure high-quality teachers.” Number One in Poverty, California Isn't Our Most Progressive State -- It's Our Most Racist One
How about changing the name of the state from California, to ‘Hypocricia’?
Or, should the name be reserved for the entire Democrat Party????
elektra
Platinum Member
Norway is a free market capitalist country, not a socialist country, that is why you prefer it over Venezuela you nit-wit.I don't want to be like venezuela. I prefer Norway.
- Thread starter
- #404
Wonderful Echo Chamber going on in this OP.They’re always looking to create some sort of ‘paradise,’ those wacky totalitarians, aren’t they?
Remember that great ‘Workers Paradise’ behind the Iron Curtain???
Now….the American version……California.
1.Did Longfellow live in California????
Maybe not….but he sure knew about it:
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
2.“Everyone thinks California is our most progressive state. And why not? It imposes the highest tax on the richest one percent. It is aggressively implementing Obamacare. And it is standing up to President Donald Trump on everything from immigration to the environment.
And yet the Golden State is also number one in poverty and inequality in America.
3.If racism is more than just saying nasty things — if it is, as scholars like James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Michelle Alexander and countless others have described, embedded into socioeconomic structures — then California isn’t just the least progressive state. It’s also the most racist.
4.Homeless encampments of hundreds of people have cropped up around the state in the last two years. Occasionally, they are ravaged by hepatitis A,…
5….workers in California earn 11 percent more than their counterparts nationally. But that amount is not enough to make up for mortgage payments and rents that are 44 percent and 37 percent higher (respectively) than the national average.
6.Environmentalism is used to justify de facto racial segregation in California’s housing. Environmental lawsuits are a major reason for longer delays and higher costs of new housing. “The core legal structure of CEQA,” notes housing attorney Jennifer Hernandez, “protects the existing characteristics of those neighborhoods and thus perpetuates land use practices founded in race and class discrimination.”
7. Consider:
· In the name of helping the poor and protecting the environment, California has placed myriad restrictions and fees on building new housing units, driving up their price;
· Progressive local governments like San Francisco and Santa Monica block even those housing projects that comply with zoning laws progressives had agreed to;
8. Progressive leaders who daily denounce Republicans as racist have blithely presided over a significant decline in the academic performance of black and Latino eighth graders relative to their counterparts in other states. Today, less than 40 percent of non-white and non-Asian students meet state educational standards… When the cost of living is taken into account, California spends less on K-12 education than all but four other states.
9. A decade-long reform effort in Washington, D.C. showed that student performance can be improved significantly by rewarding teachers for performance and replacing underperforming teachers.
But California has rejected similar reforms. Progressives won’t even allow delaying teacher tenure from two to three years to ensure high-quality teachers.” Number One in Poverty, California Isn't Our Most Progressive State -- It's Our Most Racist One
How about changing the name of the state from California, to ‘Hypocricia’?
Or, should the name be reserved for the entire Democrat Party????
So you could find no way to dispute anything in the post to which you linked????
Excellent.
Thanks so much for wasting everyone's time.
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Norway is a free market capitalist country, not a socialist country, that is why you prefer it over Venezuela you nit-wit.I don't want to be like venezuela. I prefer Norway.
When you don't quote the person you intended to, that pretty much identifies you as the nit-wit.
elektra
Platinum Member
ooops, sorry, I have been worst. for some reason I had a hard time digging that quote out and getting it right.Norway is a free market capitalist country, not a socialist country, that is why you prefer it over Venezuela you nit-wit.I don't want to be like venezuela. I prefer Norway.
When you don't quote the person you intended to, that pretty much identifies you as the nit-wit.
elektra
Platinum Member
Norway is a free market economy, ran on oil. It is not progressive/socialist.You keep focusing on venezuela and cuba and ignoring Norway and Denmark.
I don't want to be like venezuela. I prefer Norway.
Third Party
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The question answers itself, doesn't it?“Cali is #1 in poverty “ =. Russian fake news .
1. The article was from Forbes, you moron.
2. "Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?"
Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?
That's the LATimes....
And again....Me: never wrong........You: a Liberals, hence, never right.
danielpalos
Diamond Member
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- #409
Venezuela is a federal Republic. what a Difference, a Constitution can make.Norway is a free market economy, ran on oil. It is not progressive/socialist.You keep focusing on venezuela and cuba and ignoring Norway and Denmark.
I don't want to be like venezuela. I prefer Norway.
elektra
Platinum Member
What a difference 26 Constitutions can make, that was their 26th.Venezuela is a federal Republic. what a Difference, a Constitution can make.
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- #411
"16,000 people in L.A. now live in cars, vans and RVs.
Two years ago, Los Angeles began testing an alternative to homeless shelters called safe parking, giving people living in their cars a secure spot to sleep at night.
The first site was quickly deemed a success, so the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority agreed to fund nine more lots in the pilot program, with promises to expand.
Earlier this year, before the release of new data showing more than 16,500 people living in their vehicles, the authority put out a request to providers across the county to help them make good on that promise."
16,000 people in L.A. now live in cars, vans and RVs. But safe parking remains limited
Another Democrat voter????
Two years ago, Los Angeles began testing an alternative to homeless shelters called safe parking, giving people living in their cars a secure spot to sleep at night.
The first site was quickly deemed a success, so the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority agreed to fund nine more lots in the pilot program, with promises to expand.
Earlier this year, before the release of new data showing more than 16,500 people living in their vehicles, the authority put out a request to providers across the county to help them make good on that promise."
16,000 people in L.A. now live in cars, vans and RVs. But safe parking remains limited
Another Democrat voter????
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- #412
‘Seattle Is Dying’
Chronic street homelessness in Seattle has become a constant reminder of civic failure in a progressive city that’s thriving economically. Tent encampments are a regular sight along highways and under bridges, while makeshift shelters have appeared in neighborhoods where homes regularly fetch more than $1 million. In March, a local news channel produced a controversial documentary on the issue called “Seattle Is Dying” that attracted millions of views and spurred calls for a more aggressive response.
The crisis is spreading up and down the West Coast, with both the Bay Area and Los Angeles recently reporting big increases in their homeless populations, as out-of-control housing costs tip people into living on the streets. But other cities have had more success in raising new funds to tackle the crisis. San Francisco voters last fall overwhelmingly passed a measure, championed by Salesforce.com Inc. co-chief executive officer Marc Benioff, that would raise as much as $300 million a year for homeless services through a tax on big companies. In Los Angeles, residents in 2017 approved a quarter-of-a-cent sales tax."
Amazon Led a Tax Rebellion. A Year Later, Seattle Is Gridlocked
NYTimes just before the scourge called Obama...
"But he did identify what he called “tactical lessons.” He let himself look too much like “the same old tax-and-spend liberal Democrat.” The Education of President Obama
Chronic street homelessness in Seattle has become a constant reminder of civic failure in a progressive city that’s thriving economically. Tent encampments are a regular sight along highways and under bridges, while makeshift shelters have appeared in neighborhoods where homes regularly fetch more than $1 million. In March, a local news channel produced a controversial documentary on the issue called “Seattle Is Dying” that attracted millions of views and spurred calls for a more aggressive response.
The crisis is spreading up and down the West Coast, with both the Bay Area and Los Angeles recently reporting big increases in their homeless populations, as out-of-control housing costs tip people into living on the streets. But other cities have had more success in raising new funds to tackle the crisis. San Francisco voters last fall overwhelmingly passed a measure, championed by Salesforce.com Inc. co-chief executive officer Marc Benioff, that would raise as much as $300 million a year for homeless services through a tax on big companies. In Los Angeles, residents in 2017 approved a quarter-of-a-cent sales tax."
Amazon Led a Tax Rebellion. A Year Later, Seattle Is Gridlocked
NYTimes just before the scourge called Obama...
"But he did identify what he called “tactical lessons.” He let himself look too much like “the same old tax-and-spend liberal Democrat.” The Education of President Obama
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danielpalos
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how can that be? your guy is claiming the lowest unemployment rates.
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Liberal governance on display....
"UN Expert says San Francisco reminds her of Indian slums
...last week that California Governor Gavin Newsom recently said the state was the “envy of the world.”
A longtime United Nations envoy would disagree. She recently visited the Bay Area and was astonished by what she saw.
When Leilani Farha paid a visit to San Francisco in January, she knew the grim reputation of the city’s homeless encampments. In her four years as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing, Farha has visited the slums of Mumbai, Delhi, Mexico City, Jarkarta, and Manila. The crisis in San Francisco, she said, is comparable to these conditions.
. . . . At one point on her trip, Farha encountered a young man living underneath a highway underpass, cooking quesadillas on a small stove with an open flame.
“The last time I had seen someone cooking on the sidewalk like that was in India, with the pavement dwellers there, and here I am in San Francisco in a state with the sixth largest GDP in the world,” said Farha.
She asked the man about how he came to be homeless, and found that he had traveled from the Midwest after his mother died and his family broke down.
“I think he was in the midst of developing a psychosocial disability from the trauma of being on the streets,” she said.
The situation is about to get rapidly worse. A new study shows that there has been a 17% increase in homelessness in the city over the last two years."
UN Expert says San Francisco reminds her of Indian slums
"UN Expert says San Francisco reminds her of Indian slums
...last week that California Governor Gavin Newsom recently said the state was the “envy of the world.”
A longtime United Nations envoy would disagree. She recently visited the Bay Area and was astonished by what she saw.
When Leilani Farha paid a visit to San Francisco in January, she knew the grim reputation of the city’s homeless encampments. In her four years as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing, Farha has visited the slums of Mumbai, Delhi, Mexico City, Jarkarta, and Manila. The crisis in San Francisco, she said, is comparable to these conditions.
. . . . At one point on her trip, Farha encountered a young man living underneath a highway underpass, cooking quesadillas on a small stove with an open flame.
“The last time I had seen someone cooking on the sidewalk like that was in India, with the pavement dwellers there, and here I am in San Francisco in a state with the sixth largest GDP in the world,” said Farha.
She asked the man about how he came to be homeless, and found that he had traveled from the Midwest after his mother died and his family broke down.
“I think he was in the midst of developing a psychosocial disability from the trauma of being on the streets,” she said.
The situation is about to get rapidly worse. A new study shows that there has been a 17% increase in homelessness in the city over the last two years."
UN Expert says San Francisco reminds her of Indian slums
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"God Still Trying To Shake Some Sense Into California
July 8th, 2019
CALIFORNIA—According to multiple sources close to the Most High, the Almighty is still trying to shake some sense into California, not yet having written off the state as a lost cause.
"God figures if He can just give them a little rattling every now and then, maybe California can be spared," said one angelic messenger. "He is slow in anger and rich in mercy, not wanting any Californians to perish despite their best efforts to tick him off."
Sources claim God is going to hit California with a few warning quakes for the next few weeks, hoping that the state will repent of its crazy anti-God agenda before He's forced to smack 'em with "the Big One." The Lord reportedly has quakes lined up for areas like Hollywood, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Santa Barbara as soon as next week, should Californians not turn from their wacky ways and back to Jesus.
At publishing time, God had resigned Himself to the fact that He would have to sink California into the Pacific Ocean."
God Still Trying To Shake Some Sense Into California
July 8th, 2019
CALIFORNIA—According to multiple sources close to the Most High, the Almighty is still trying to shake some sense into California, not yet having written off the state as a lost cause.
"God figures if He can just give them a little rattling every now and then, maybe California can be spared," said one angelic messenger. "He is slow in anger and rich in mercy, not wanting any Californians to perish despite their best efforts to tick him off."
Sources claim God is going to hit California with a few warning quakes for the next few weeks, hoping that the state will repent of its crazy anti-God agenda before He's forced to smack 'em with "the Big One." The Lord reportedly has quakes lined up for areas like Hollywood, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Santa Barbara as soon as next week, should Californians not turn from their wacky ways and back to Jesus.
At publishing time, God had resigned Himself to the fact that He would have to sink California into the Pacific Ocean."
God Still Trying To Shake Some Sense Into California
The Original Tree
Diamond Member
Socialism Creates Poverty.They’re always looking to create some sort of ‘paradise,’ those wacky totalitarians, aren’t they?
Remember that great ‘Workers Paradise’ behind the Iron Curtain???
Now….the American version……California.
1.Did Longfellow live in California????
Maybe not….but he sure knew about it:
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
2.“Everyone thinks California is our most progressive state. And why not? It imposes the highest tax on the richest one percent. It is aggressively implementing Obamacare. And it is standing up to President Donald Trump on everything from immigration to the environment.
And yet the Golden State is also number one in poverty and inequality in America.
3.If racism is more than just saying nasty things — if it is, as scholars like James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Michelle Alexander and countless others have described, embedded into socioeconomic structures — then California isn’t just the least progressive state. It’s also the most racist.
4.Homeless encampments of hundreds of people have cropped up around the state in the last two years. Occasionally, they are ravaged by hepatitis A,…
5….workers in California earn 11 percent more than their counterparts nationally. But that amount is not enough to make up for mortgage payments and rents that are 44 percent and 37 percent higher (respectively) than the national average.
6.Environmentalism is used to justify de facto racial segregation in California’s housing. Environmental lawsuits are a major reason for longer delays and higher costs of new housing. “The core legal structure of CEQA,” notes housing attorney Jennifer Hernandez, “protects the existing characteristics of those neighborhoods and thus perpetuates land use practices founded in race and class discrimination.”
7. Consider:
· In the name of helping the poor and protecting the environment, California has placed myriad restrictions and fees on building new housing units, driving up their price;
· Progressive local governments like San Francisco and Santa Monica block even those housing projects that comply with zoning laws progressives had agreed to;
8. Progressive leaders who daily denounce Republicans as racist have blithely presided over a significant decline in the academic performance of black and Latino eighth graders relative to their counterparts in other states. Today, less than 40 percent of non-white and non-Asian students meet state educational standards… When the cost of living is taken into account, California spends less on K-12 education than all but four other states.
9. A decade-long reform effort in Washington, D.C. showed that student performance can be improved significantly by rewarding teachers for performance and replacing underperforming teachers.
But California has rejected similar reforms. Progressives won’t even allow delaying teacher tenure from two to three years to ensure high-quality teachers.” Number One in Poverty, California Isn't Our Most Progressive State -- It's Our Most Racist One
How about changing the name of the state from California, to ‘Hypocricia’?
Or, should the name be reserved for the entire Democrat Party????
It does not remedy it.
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"Texas Constructs Border Wall To Keep Out Unwanted Refugees From California
AUSTIN, TX—The Texas legislature has approved construction of a border wall surrounding the state in order to keep out unwanted refugees fleeing the rapidly crumbling dystopia of California.
The legislature has been faced with an increasing number of Californians seeking asylum after fleeing the unhinged, far-left state, and finally found a solution.
Construction began shortly after the measure was passed. The wall will run around the entirety of Texas, with extra security measures on the west side of the state to ensure undesirable Californian immigrants can’t make it across. While low-traffic areas like the north and east sides of the state will be protected by a simple fence, the west side will feature a 10-foot-thick concrete wall with laser turrets, barbed wire, and a moat filled with sharks to stop residents of the coastal state from slipping in undocumented and undetected.
A recent conversation about changing the name of the city of Austin to be more politically correct opened lawmakers’ eyes to just how many liberal California residents had come to the state in recent years, bringing their crazy ideas with them.
“Far too many immigrants from California come here, take advantage of our pro-business, pro-liberty laws, and refuse to adjust to our way of life,” one Texas state rep said in an address to the assembly. “It is time for us to build a wall and make California pay for it.”
Texas Constructs Border Wall To Keep Out Unwanted Refugees From California
AUSTIN, TX—The Texas legislature has approved construction of a border wall surrounding the state in order to keep out unwanted refugees fleeing the rapidly crumbling dystopia of California.
The legislature has been faced with an increasing number of Californians seeking asylum after fleeing the unhinged, far-left state, and finally found a solution.
Construction began shortly after the measure was passed. The wall will run around the entirety of Texas, with extra security measures on the west side of the state to ensure undesirable Californian immigrants can’t make it across. While low-traffic areas like the north and east sides of the state will be protected by a simple fence, the west side will feature a 10-foot-thick concrete wall with laser turrets, barbed wire, and a moat filled with sharks to stop residents of the coastal state from slipping in undocumented and undetected.
A recent conversation about changing the name of the city of Austin to be more politically correct opened lawmakers’ eyes to just how many liberal California residents had come to the state in recent years, bringing their crazy ideas with them.
“Far too many immigrants from California come here, take advantage of our pro-business, pro-liberty laws, and refuse to adjust to our way of life,” one Texas state rep said in an address to the assembly. “It is time for us to build a wall and make California pay for it.”
Texas Constructs Border Wall To Keep Out Unwanted Refugees From California
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