Well, all kinds of things. As you all know, I moved out here two years ago to be near the family. Daughter, her hubby and our charming now six year old grandson. We love that, no regrets. The Chinese flu fouled things up for a year, we haven't seen them as much as we would have liked, but overall it's good.
It's a beautiful place, no doubt. Mountains. The ocean with the many beaches. Deserts. Everything you want. Great restaurants. Lots of fun stuff. But the politics. Oh my God, the politics.
California was once a great state. Ronald Reagan was President. They were prosperous. A working person could afford a house. Taxes were reasonable. California was one of the great success stories of America.
During the dust bowl, thousands of okies and others who were wiped out migrated here to work picking crops. Central California, where I live was home to them. Their influence here is still strong. Merle Haggard wrote songs about it. But somewhere it all changed.
Today, the democrat/communists have total control. Taxes are the highest in the nation. Gas taxes are the highest in the nation. And just went up six cents yesterday. The poverty level is the highest in the nation. We have more homeless and illegal aliens than any other state. They pass laws constantly that are insane. Examples:
You can steal up to $950 at any given time without being arrested. Just a minor offense. So, shoplifting and theft is out of control. Stores in San Francisco are closing because they can't absorb the cost of theft. And they can't stop them when they catch them, because the crime is so minor.
No bail. You just walk out of jail on a promise.
And they've released thousands of violent criminals from prison for no apparent reason, so the streets are filled with these people.
But, things change sometimes. The Supreme Court just reversed on of the laws the commies passed. It required non profits to release the names of their donors. This was obviously aimed at Conservatives, and the democrat/communist party had plans to expose the names of donors to prevent people in the future from donating out of fear of the same.
The commies didn't count on a whole bunch of right and left organizations suing, and winning. So that got shut down.
But this state truly is a mess. They claim to be prosperous. But the liabilities are hidden. They owe trillions in unfunded liabilities, primarily government pensions. See, if you work for the state of California, say a teacher, when you retire you get your full salary for life. So that adds up.
Anyway, that's just a little look at what it's like to live here. Crime, theft, poverty, high taxes, gas at $4.39 a gallon. Highest electric rates in the country, with occasional blackouts because they can't produce enough power to keep the lights on. No water, because the greenies refused since the sixties to build reservoirs to store water, and they let the water flowing from the north flow to the ocean, for the fish. Starve thousand of farmers and farm workers, but the fish are happy.
It's something else. If it wasn't for the family I never would have come. But they make it all worth it. So I'll stay. We're about to recall the commie governor so maybe that will change things. I doubt it.
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