California - Shithole. Leads nation in poverty

[LacesOut]

Oh, you sold Cali real estate right after Obama took office and at the worst real estate crisis recorded? Smart move.

Uh no...read my post.

 

[RRY16]

I shudder at this fact because I love SOCAL and all that comes with it. I still own real estate there though I bounced shortly after Odumbo took office.

But just goes to show you that Leftist policies do not work.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/whats-matter-california/


This just in from what was once the best state in the Union:

Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor. That’s according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food, utilities and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income.

Given robust job growth and the prosperity generated by several industries, it’s worth asking why California has fallen behind, especially when the state’s per-capita GDP increased approximately twice as much as the U.S. average over the five years ending in 2016 (12.5%, compared with 6.27%).

The Left's first, last and only instinct is to throw more money at the problem, but California's already done that. and guess what?

It’s not as though California policymakers have neglected to wage war on poverty. Sacramento and local governments have spent massive amounts in the cause. Several state and municipal benefit programs overlap with one another; in some cases, individuals with incomes 200% above the poverty line receive benefits. California state and local governments spent nearly $958 billion from 1992 through 2015 on public welfare programs, including cash-assistance payments, vendor payments and “other public welfare,” according to the Census Bureau. California, with 12% of the American population, is home today to about one in three of the nation’s welfare recipients.


The generous spending, then, has not only failed to decrease poverty; it actually seems to have made it worse.

The progressives who control every aspect of the state's government are not necessarily stupid people, but they are malign. They understand that increasing welfare spending only encourages the arrival of more recipients on whom to spend it, and the high likelihood that those new constituents will vote Democrat as soon as they are able, legally or otherwise. Already, some 55 percent of "immigrants" receive means-tested benefits, while only 30 percent of native Californians do so.


The Tragic Decline of California

California's army of bureaucrats contributes as well, as does the state's highly restrictive land-use ordinances and environmental restrictions, which drive up the cost of housing in what is already the nation's most expensive real-estate market:

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.


Further contributing to the poverty problem is California’s housing crisis. More than four in 10 households spent more than 30% of their income on housing in 2015. A shortage of available units has driven prices ever higher, far above income increases. And that shortage is a direct outgrowth of misguided policies.

They're not "misguided" -- in fact, they're doing exactly what the progressives designed them to do. Higher housing prices means more money in the pockets of Angelenos and San Franciscans when they go to sell, high energy prices have a disproportionate impact on the poor, generous welfare "benefits" mean an endless supply of new Democrats and permanent employment for the public-employee unions who actually run the state.

It's a perfect racket, and one that will continue unless and until the California Republicans get their act together and begin vigorously contesting what has become a one-party state designed to enrich those at the top, beggar the middle class, and keep those on the bottom in permanent penury.

I shudder at this fact because I love SOCAL and all that comes with it. I still own real estate there though I bounced shortly after Odumbo took office.

But just goes to show you that Leftist policies do not work.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/whats-matter-california/


This just in from what was once the best state in the Union:

Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor. That’s according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food, utilities and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income.

Given robust job growth and the prosperity generated by several industries, it’s worth asking why California has fallen behind, especially when the state’s per-capita GDP increased approximately twice as much as the U.S. average over the five years ending in 2016 (12.5%, compared with 6.27%).

The Left's first, last and only instinct is to throw more money at the problem, but California's already done that. and guess what?

It’s not as though California policymakers have neglected to wage war on poverty. Sacramento and local governments have spent massive amounts in the cause. Several state and municipal benefit programs overlap with one another; in some cases, individuals with incomes 200% above the poverty line receive benefits. California state and local governments spent nearly $958 billion from 1992 through 2015 on public welfare programs, including cash-assistance payments, vendor payments and “other public welfare,” according to the Census Bureau. California, with 12% of the American population, is home today to about one in three of the nation’s welfare recipients.


The generous spending, then, has not only failed to decrease poverty; it actually seems to have made it worse.

The progressives who control every aspect of the state's government are not necessarily stupid people, but they are malign. They understand that increasing welfare spending only encourages the arrival of more recipients on whom to spend it, and the high likelihood that those new constituents will vote Democrat as soon as they are able, legally or otherwise. Already, some 55 percent of "immigrants" receive means-tested benefits, while only 30 percent of native Californians do so.


The Tragic Decline of California

California's army of bureaucrats contributes as well, as does the state's highly restrictive land-use ordinances and environmental restrictions, which drive up the cost of housing in what is already the nation's most expensive real-estate market:

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.


Further contributing to the poverty problem is California’s housing crisis. More than four in 10 households spent more than 30% of their income on housing in 2015. A shortage of available units has driven prices ever higher, far above income increases. And that shortage is a direct outgrowth of misguided policies.

They're not "misguided" -- in fact, they're doing exactly what the progressives designed them to do. Higher housing prices means more money in the pockets of Angelenos and San Franciscans when they go to sell, high energy prices have a disproportionate impact on the poor, generous welfare "benefits" mean an endless supply of new Democrats and permanent employment for the public-employee unions who actually run the state.

It's a perfect racket, and one that will continue unless and until the California Republicans get their act together and begin vigorously contesting what has become a one-party state designed to enrich those at the top, beggar the middle class, and keep those on the bottom in permanent penury.

owning a odd lot of a Calif REIT doesn't count, good try!

 

[LacesOut]

Nice chart dumb dumb.
Looks like MS plus AL = Colorado.
Your 2 ‘Bangladesh’ states = the strongest economic growth state.
And only at a slight difference in population.
Makes sense.

What you fail to read in this article was that CA is a failed welfare state where 1 in 5 are classified poor and the state accounts for 33% of all American Welfare. Truly amazing.

Not surprised that a cradle to grave Leftist doesn’t understand that this is not good.

 

[LacesOut]

owning a odd lot of a Calif REIT doesn't count, good try!

Learn to read, retard.

 

[Scataphagos]

Not surprised that a cradle to grave Leftist doesn’t understand that this is not good.

Lefties care only about power and control... whatever the cost, whatever the damage.

 

[Slartibartfast]

It's a lie just like this 3rd world propaganda, none of these dipshits have stepped foot here just in the fantasy world of the Internet.

I'm a dipshit who has stepped foot there

I own close to 300 acres in SoCal, not the best land but it borders national park and it is pretty enough if you like mostly brownish countryside that goes on fire.

I've have quite a few incidences with mostly couples trying to live there in converted bus old RV affairs. Easy enough to move on by directing them to a little known hotel offering some serviced parking with a lot of work in easy reach. They have nearly all been Cali natives who were priced out.

The point being housing is too expensive for lowest rung earners in much of Cali for sure.

I'm told that spending less than 50% of your income on housing is doing really well near popular places. Cali draws the educated and wealthy skilled tech people etc, it hurts the poor who are being priced out.

This is not a lib/con policy thing really, Cali is showing the sharp end of the incredible wealth inequality problem that is getting worse and worse in America. This is the poison at the root of most of these arguments.

80% of Americans own an unbelievably small portion of the country's wealth

I'm in the 1% who own 40% and I'm not even American.

See the teeny tiny blue bit on the left just below in Actual? That is the bottom 40%

 

[Tsing Tao]

Land of Paradise.

https://twitter.com/x/status/953116724710187008

 

[Slartibartfast]

Land of Paradise.

https://twitter.com/x/status/953116724710187008

"This is the result of socialism and left-wing politics."

Nope, this is the result of insane wealth distribution. When the Walmarts of the world get away with this shit:

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welco....google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/

"Walmart's low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing, according to a report published to coincide with Tax Day, April 15."

How many of those tent people worked for Walmart or similar and ran out of favors for the rent?

Stop blaming the poor like this America, you don't have to go socialist but you can't go on like this much longer.

 

[jem]

How the heck do you think California got to be this way? You don't think it was leftist policy choices?

Wealth imbalance is a result of high progressive taxes on middle and upper middle class workers and the importation of millions of poor people from poor countries who take govt benefits.


I have lived here since th 80s I have watched it happen. The working middle class has had to squeeze itself into a few good school systems causing the price of the real estate in those neighborhood to become insane. Millions of new people arrive and they drive up the price of the the houses recently vacated; by putting two families into to a rental or an ownership situation.

do you think its possible that by taxing the hell out of the middle class to the point they have to leave or become working poor might have a lot to do with the imbalance?

How about luring in millions of people who don't work from other countries with free govt benefits. Do you think that could clump people on the low end of the spectrum?

Wealth imbalance is a result of crony practices couple with high taxes, progressive taxes and the importation of millions of poor people from poor countries.

"This is the result of socialism and left-wing politics."

Nope, this is the result of insane wealth distribution. When the Walmarts of the world get away with this shit:

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welco....google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/

"Walmart's low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing, according to a report published to coincide with Tax Day, April 15."

How many of those tent people worked for Walmart or similar and ran out of favors for the rent?

Stop blaming the poor like this America, you don't have to go socialist but you can't go on like this much longer.

 

[Tsing Tao]

"This is the result of socialism and left-wing politics."

Nope, this is the result of insane wealth distribution. When the Walmarts of the world get away with this shit:

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welco....google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/

"Walmart's low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing, according to a report published to coincide with Tax Day, April 15."

How many of those tent people worked for Walmart or similar and ran out of favors for the rent?

Stop blaming the poor like this America, you don't have to go socialist but you can't go on like this much longer.

So let me ask you this honest question. If this is a Walmart issue (not paying enough) then where are the tent cities like this in Arkansas? Or in Tennessee? Montana? Delaware?

Walmart wages go a lot farther in states where costs are managed better (rent, etc).