Nickolai

A lot of people are doing that most are right wingers which is good riddance I say most of them like to live out in the boon docks c***ting on their taxes. they are all about me my self and I. Me,me,me. Liberal progressives who are our innovators in California prefer words like we, us, and ours, I'm proud to say

cold iron Loc: White House

I lived 30 miles south of LA for over 30 years and I have seen ice on my car every winter and snow a few times. You know not of what you speak.

Nickolai

It is rare to see ice in LA. I lived in LA too It's nothing like winter in my home state of Oklahoma. We get a little snow in the bay area but only on the hill tops maybe once or twice a year

Nickolai

Politifact; Does California send more money to Washington D.C. than it gets back in return?
"Without a doubt. California is a donor state to the federal Treasury," California’s new Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra told NPR in January. "We always, as taxpayers in the state of California, pay more in taxes than we get back to our state. And so we’re going to fight where we need to to make sure that we get the resources that we provided to the federal Treasury."In January 2017, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office said by several measures California is, indeed, a donor state, but just barely. It receives $0.99 in federal expenditures per dollar of taxes paid, which is below the national average return for states of $1.22 per dollar paid, according to its review of a 2015 New York Comptroller study.

That study ranked California 42nd among the fifty states and the District of Columbia for the amount of federal per capita expenditure ($9,172).

Nickolai

New Study: Undocumented Immigrants in California Contribute $130 Billion To State GDP. A new study on immigrant contributions at the University of Southern California has revealed that undocumented immigrants in California make up 10% of the workforce and contribute $130 billion to the gross domestic product, the LA Times reported. The study, conducted in conjunction with the California Immigrant Policy Center, explores the various ways that the estimated 2.6 million immigrants who lack legal status participate in state life, with a particular focus on their contributions to the state’s GDP. The study found that most immigrant workers lack basic civil rights protections and are faced with the daily threat of family separation and deportation due to the federal government’s inability to create a “rational immigration system.”

Other key findings in the report with respect to undocumented immigrants in California include:•58% do not have health insurance
•38% work in the agriculture industry
•Half have been in the state for at least 10 years
•Three quarters live in households that include U.S. citizens
•Of the 4.4 million immigrants living in the greater L.A. region, 1.1 million are undocumented, contributing $57 billion to the regional GDP

Nickolai

That's ridiculous nonsense California is a vibrant dynamic state with a widely diverse economy. Venezuela has oil and not mush of anything else. California is a liberal progressive state. Hiram Walker liberal Republican became governor in 1911 rescuing California from the control of southern Pacific Railroad and began California's progressive era that lasted until 1966 when the state elected the conservative Republican Ronald Regan. in that 55 year period California built all seven bridges that span the SF bay and their modern replacements most of the freeways , 300 college campuses Scores of libraries and public buildings. The California water project the most extensive water system in history. All of this in just 55 years as public works projects vastly improving the lives of all Californians. Reagan ended that era the first thing he did is close all the mental hospitals turning the inmates out in the street and treating them with drugs. Fighting the farm workers union and ceasing the city of Berkeley with the Calif National Guard for three weeks to quash demonstrators and take away their rights to protest. All progress ended and the state muddled until Jerry Brown was elected to a third time as governor and revived the progressive era that his father Pat Brown had closed in 1966 when he was defeated by the reactionary Ronald Reagan

Nickolai

It is complicated. It started in 2007-2008 when millions lost their homes in the financial collapse of Wall street, housing prices dropped. Chinese investors came In and began buying homes, blocks of homes, paying cash and renting them lout some times to people who had lost the home to foreclosure driving prices paying more than asking price. During the same time the innovators began creating jobs and people began flooding in to fill the jobs increasing demand for housing paying above asking some times substantially above. A shortage of sk**led construction workers contributed to lack of new housing. The unions had been beaten down by the big developers and no longer had apprenticeship training programs. Jobs has been created faster than housing could be built. The demand for housing has driven prices through the roof until ordinary working class workers can't afford to pay the rents. Much less buy a home so teachers, janitors, Bus boys, waitresses, are sleeping in their cars or living in an RV of some sort.

son of witless

Yea as long as they stiff their retirees they will not go broke. Your good buddies the scumbag Demoncraps have taken care of their good buddies the public employees. California taxpayers have humongous unfunded pension liabilities. Thanx Gov. Moonbeam.

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

Thank God He Vetoed The Health-Care Bill...Again

You Need To Cite Some Sources On These Claims

California's Debt Is Greater Than Most Sovereign Nations
A Budgetary Surplus Is An Accounting Trick For The Books
That Exists Only On Paper

Your Previous Post Was Good
Only Fundamentally Wrong
'Wh**ever The Market Will Bear' Was Coined In California

I'm Still Waiting For Someone To Explain This:
The Income Gap Between California's Rich And Poor Rivals Any Banana Republic
Income Disparity Seem To Be A Big Issue With Some Posters
Like It's Part Of The Republican Plan
Yet Poverty In America Proves It's A Democrat Necessity

moldyoldy

Silicon Valley and Hollywood cause a worldwide income gap

3jack

Yep, Florida will soon become a blue state. Just because one moves, it doesn't change their core beliefs, eh?

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

A Big Problem With Third World Poverty I*****l I*******ts

Ex-'Fornians Will Try To Do What They Did To California In Texas And Florida
And What The Weirdos Did To Portland And Seattle
When They Discovered They Couldn't Afford 'Frisco

son of witless

Both are capitalist dogs.

moldyoldy

Dah Komrad

son of witless

Aren't you part of the anti Capitalist-pig-dog crowd that engages in routine Class Warfare on OPP in order to justify the Socialist-Neo Kommunist-Ginormous-Big Brother-Government policies of President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck-You Schumer, and the rest of the Jack Ass Party ?

Oh I left out Crony-Capitalist Jack Asses. That takes in the Hollywood and Silicone Valley and perhaps the Solar Industry wing of the People's Democratic Party.