That's a lot of bull s**t California has not lost 3 million population the population has increased every year for as long as I have lived here and the biggest problem is too many people want to live here. A lot of people have cashed in their expensive homes to move to a rural area or state where there is more room and the cost of living is less but there more taking their place we are building over 130,000 housing units per year but it is not keeping up with demand for housing which is driving rents and prices through the roof. Calif has been leading the nation in job creation and economic growth for years. There is nowhere in America I would rather live than California. In the last 30 years the population has grown by 12 million more people that's double the population of my home state of Oklahoma and Kansas combined. There are conservatives leaving but they are replaced when they sell somebody buys there home plus the new units fill faster than they can be built. Conservatives move to cheap living states like Oklahoma but the winters are cold as hell and the summer heat is getting worse and the humidity is stifling and the threat of Tornados are ever present . One hit near my home town two three years ago and damaged the homes of a couple cousins

Sam Brownback (R) spent much of his first term failing so severely, even his critics were surprised. Most notably, the far-right governor launched an economic “experiment” – pushing massive tax breaks his state obviously couldn’t afford – which led to disastrous results, including debt downgrades, weak growth, and state finances in shambles. Call it the Brownback effect. Republicans once idolized Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback as a tax cutting superstar – now he’s a lesson in what not to do. He promixsed if the people would eliminate taxes on Kansas small businesses and corporstions-- businesses in high tax states such as California would move to Kansas and bring jobs an revenues would increase. None of it was true Californias businesses did not move jobs did no materializ and the state went broke could pay its bills maintain the highways, schools had to close early and a billion and a half dollar deficit appeared a huge sum for a little state like Kansas. Republican governor te Wilisons legacy was a chronic $25 billion deficit. In Califrnia we elected Democrat Jerry Brown gave him a supe majority in the legislature raised taxes on th rich eliminated the defcit and built a $10 billion rainy day fund and when Brown leaves office in January he will leave a $9.6 billion surplus

How did these illiterate immigrants steal these After the big real estate develpers in the SF Bay Area attacked the Construction unions to destroy them I was foeced to with draw from the labor agrement with the Painters and Carpenters unions and go non union. My union emloyees qit rather than wofk non union so I was forced to hire Mexicans from the East San Jose barrio. I hired a Mexican Sheet rocker superintendant and a drywall finisher superintndant to do my hiring and firing. One year I recieved notice from the Social Security administration that I had a person on my payroll that was using some bodys SS number but they never indentified the person and I never heard an more from them. I h**ed the fact that Mexicans played a roll helping the big developers in breaking my union but It was either hire them or go out of business. When I had to pull out in 1984 I was paying my union workers $20 per hr plus $7.5 in benefit money in to a jointly managed trust fund. Last summer out of curiosity I checked Google to see what thre sverage non union carpenter was making these 34 years later It was $26.5 per hr no benefits a dollar an hr less than the pay pakage I was paying 34 years ago

Not true we have a labor shortage in farm labor as well as highly sk**led construction workers and tech workers. Some crop have had to be let rot in the fields for lack of pickers. I live on the edge of the delta a farming district with a large Hispanic population of Hispanic farm workers and I can guarantee you it is not a s**t hole community t is a ell planned community. in the last 10 years we have built a new police headquarters building. an new city hall and community center a two story parking garage and a new 15,000 sq ft library as well as a refurbished underground infrastructure in the old down town and ew sidewalks curbs tree plantings along the main street

That's what Gray Davis told us, only HIS figure was a $16B surplus. After he was reelected, it came to light the figure was actually a deficit.

Remember that? We fired him and hired Arnold?

That was also the last time I'll ever trust figures released by lefty administrations.

But back on topic, California IS hemorrhaging jobs because it is hemorrhaging employers, and this isn't some recent development, it was happening as far back as when I lived in San Francisco in the early 2000s.

I have some friends there who owned retail businesses at the time, brands and products that were in fashion and in demand at the time, and business was dying, going from bad to worse because of low consumer confidence in California.

Face it, Nikolai Nikaolaevitch Bolsheviksky, the way the State of California is being run

I haven't been back in the city since 2004, but friends there tell me it's become a twofold nightmare. Too expensive for the middle class, yet from the perspective of the homeless/ drug addict situations, it is the epitome of a classic sh**hole.

In the fairly near future I intend to visit for a few hours to see for myself, but I'm not optimistic about what I'm likely to find.