Here's an interesting statistic: "California, with 12% of the American population, is home today to about one in three of the nation’s welfare recipients". Wow. How is that even possible? The fifth largest economy in the world is disproportionately in poverty. Turns out, native Californians, while a sizeable chunk of the problem, are not the major issue: "55% of immigrant families in the state get some kind of means-tested benefits, compared with just 30% of natives". It appears the 'Sanctuary State' is being bled dry by the very 'immigrants' they are shielding.
To anyone with a pair of eyes to see with, the problem in California can be condensed down into a single word:
Socialism.
"As economist William A. Niskanen explained back in 1971, public agencies seek to maximize their budgets, through which they acquire increased power, status, comfort and security. To keep growing its budget, and hence its power, a welfare bureaucracy has an incentive to expand its “customer” base. With 883,000 full-time-equivalent state and local employees in 2014, California has an enormous bureaucracy. Many work in social services, and many would lose their jobs if the typical welfare client were to move off the welfare rolls".
Now ain't that just 'peachy'?
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-california-poverty-20180114-story.html
California is culturing a new era of crime and violence and unleashing it upon themselves,
just so that they have an excuse to make government bigger, so they can not deal with bigger problems.
New data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission shows that of those convicted of federal crimes between 2011 and 2016,
44.2 percent were not U.S. citizens — 21.4 percent, if immigration crimes are excluded.
Non-citizens includes legal residents and account for about 8% of the population.
https://cis.org/Camarota/NonCitizens-Committed-Disproportionate-Share-Federal-Crimes-201116
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