Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?

Tom B said:
Now, you are back to lying because you lost. And, why should I answer your question, when you would not answer mine.
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And I lost what exactly? Everytime you are unable to give an answer, you start with the dumb personal attacks.

I answered your question perfectly, the opportunity to make 25 grand in MS is not the same as it is in CA which is why saying what a person would prefer is a faulty premise. It's not upto to an individual to choose how productive or large a state economy is otherwise everyone would emigrate to MS which isn't happening. A Haitian will prefer to make 25 grand and live in Haiti like a king instead of living in a very expensive city - but do most people get to make that choice? No.
 
exGOPer said:
And I lost what exactly? Everytime you are unable to give an answer, you start with the dumb personal attacks.

I answered your question perfectly, the opportunity to make 25 grand in MS is not the same as it is in CA which is why saying what a person would prefer is a faulty premise. It's not upto to an individual to choose how productive or large a state economy is otherwise everyone would emigrate to MS which isn't happening. A Haitian will prefer to make 25 grand and live in Haiti like a king instead of living in a very expensive city - but do most people get to make that choice? No.
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You called me a Con and a liar, Tard. You blew it. Run along.
 
Tom B said:
Op-Ed: Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?

By Kerry Jackson

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%).

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.

Harvard University study found evidence that “higher minimum wages increase overall exit rates for restaurants” in the Bay Area, where more than a dozen cities and counties, including San Francisco, have changed their minimum-wage ordinances in the last five years. “Estimates suggest that a one-dollar increase in the minimum wage leads to a 14% increase in the likelihood of exit for a 3.5-star restaurant (which is the median rating),” the report says. These restaurants are a significant source of employment for low-skilled and entry-level workers.

Apparently content with futile poverty policies, Sacramento lawmakers can turn their attention to what historian Victor Davis Hanson aptly describes as a fixation on “remaking the world.” The political class wants to build a costly and needless high-speed rail system; talks of secession from a United States presided over by Donald Trump; hired former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. to “resist” Trump’s agenda; enacted the first state-level cap-and-trade regime; established California as a “sanctuary state” for illegal immigrants; banned plastic bags, threatening the jobs of thousands of workers involved in their manufacture; and is consumed by its dedication to “California values.” All this only reinforces the rest of America’s perception of an out-of-touch Left Coast, to the disservice of millions of Californians whose values are more traditional, including many of the state’s poor residents.

With a permanent majority in the state Senate and the Assembly, a prolonged dominance in the executive branch and a weak opposition, California Democrats have long been free to indulge blue-state ideology while paying little or no political price. The state’s poverty problem is unlikely to improve while policymakers remain unwilling to unleash the engines of economic prosperity that drove California to its golden years.

Kerry Jackson is the Pacific Research Institute’s fellow in California studies. This essay was adapted from the winter issue of City Journal.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-california-poverty-20180114-story.html
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Anywhere there is a liberal administration you will find poverty, misery and darkness. This is because with liberalism it's all about the folks at the top enriching themselves under the guise of working and being for and in the people's interests. The masses begin to believe that their masters provide the only solace and forget how life could/can be.
 
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RRY16 said:
How many of you pigeons on here are from Canada?
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Just having some fun RR
Born in NYC
Raised, college, and after all within the Tri-state area
Smack in the middle of liberals and union/pension thievery. I was actually even in a union after college for ~2 years. What a fucking disgrace. People literally couldn’t get fired. I’ve got some stories that would make your head spin
 
Buy1Sell2 said:
Anywhere there is a liberal administration you will find poverty, misery and darkness. This is because with liberalism it's all about the folks at the top enriching themselves under the guise of working and being for and in the people's interests. The masses begin to believe that their masters provide the only solace and forget how life could/can be.
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That is exactly the essence of socialism: extreme riches and privileges for the ruling class, poverty and oppression for the plebs. Again and again history has shown that the greatest prosperity in societies has been achieved when government intervention was cut down as much as possible.
 
exGOPer said:
Let's go over this AGAIN.

The reason SPM is high in blue states is because blue states are rich which drives up housing prices which leads to higher SPM.

Don't worry about tragic poverty rates when red states are living in destitute poverty as I already linked even after blue states are taking care of their bills.
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Are you denying that the Census Bureau data declares that blue states are the leading functional high poverty shit-holes. With California leading at over 20% poverty. Because that is what the Census Buteau data states.
 
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