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2022-04-16 Economy

California's Vanished Dream, by the Numbers

[Real Clear Investigations] Even today amid a mounting exodus among those who can afford it, and with its appeal diminished to businesses and newcomers, California, legendary state of American dreams, continues to inspire optimism among progressive boosters.

Laura Tyson, the longtime Democratic economist now at the University of California at Berkeley, praises the state for creating "the way forward" to a more enlightened "market capitalism." Like-minded analysts tout Silicon Valley’s massive wealth generation as evidence of progressivism’s promise. The Los Angeles Times suggested approvingly that the Biden administration’s goal is to "make America California again." And, despite dark prospects in November’s midterm elections, the President and his party still seem intent on proving it.

But most Californians, according to recent surveys, see things differently. They point to rising poverty and inequality, believe the state is in recession and that it is headed in the wrong direction. Parting with the state’s cheerleaders, the New York Times’ Ezra Klein, a reliable progressive and native Californian, says the Golden State’s failures are "making liberals squirm."

Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-16 05:03|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 If you want to be depressed, go try to read all the way through the article.

Posted by Bobby 2022-04-16 07:52|| 2022-04-16 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Mrs. Warthog and I left Kaliphornia in 2013 and we thought it was bad then. It's an upholstered cesspool. Idaho is paradise comparatively..but for how long is the question...

Posted by Warthog 2022-04-16 08:11|| 2022-04-16 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Until all those progressives move there

Posted by Chris 2022-04-16 11:03|| 2022-04-16 11:03|| Front Page Top

Ref #1: If you want to be depressed, go try to read all the way through the article.

Depression? I'm visually oriented. I use this graphic as a screen saver.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-16 11:22|| 2022-04-16 11:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Paradise Lost, first came in 1969, was stunned by the beauty and optimistic sense of the American Dream. Left for good in 2018, simply could not stand the creeping ruination brought on by the cancer of demokrat ideology and policy.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-04-16 11:40|| 2022-04-16 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ "Sniff & Blow, A Date At The Drive-In"

Posted by Snugum Grundy8528 2022-04-16 11:41|| 2022-04-16 11:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Bring in millions of illegals
Pay people not to work
Thwart housing construction
Block needed dans and desalination projects
Decriminalize theft
Ignore popular will and Impose illegal race preferences in college admissions
Run public schools into the ground
Turn the state's treasury over to virtue-signaling plutocrats and left-wing activists
Lock down and destroy all independent commercial or cultural activity
Shut down the oil exploration & production industry
Elect tools of Chinese espionage to national office
Make Pedophilia Great Again, in Hollywood and throughout the public schools

Yes, Kaliphornia is a blueprint for Biden's America

Posted by Shique Mussolini7384 2022-04-16 11:56|| 2022-04-16 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Mrs. Uluque will never leave so I'm kinda like stuck here. Oh well, if it gets so bad that people are leaving in droves then at least it won't be so damned crowded. I keep hearing that people are leaving but what I see tells me otherwise. Massive apartment and condo buildings continue to be built and freeway congestion keeps getting worse. If they keep going the way they are it's gonna look like Newark all the way from Mexico to Oregon. Politicians and developers keep telling us we need more affordable housing and they keep building as fast as they can. Newsom is turning it into a Third World hell hole but the prices and the rents continue to rise. I don't get it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-04-16 13:43|| 2022-04-16 13:43|| Front Page Top

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