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Originally posted by AURaptor:
The obvious point here is that California is over regulating, overtaxing mismanaging, while micromanaging itself into oblivion .

And it doesn’t have to be that way. People have a choice, and should exercise their right to choose better.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

I think one of California's biggest reasons for homelessness is the climate.

WAY back when, I used to set up sound reinforcement equipment for summer outdoor concerts in the NE. (Yep, that was me, wheeling big speakers around, setting up mike stands, and laying cable.) Anyway, the bums, as we called, them would always hang around the concerts because it was something to do. But when winter came many of them would ride the rails to California, because otherwise they'd, yanno, freeze to death. (Or they'd get ripping drunk and check themselves into the County Hospital detox unit for three hots and a cot. And some I think would find a way into the county jail for the same reason.) So, lots of homeless people come to California for the weather to - let me repeat this - avoid freezing to death. It was and is an actual plan.

California also has a REALLY large illegal immigrant population - the kind that employers like to exploit with off-the-books 'employment' featuring too much work, really low wages, and no benefits, and / or 'independent contractor' and 'gig' work.

In addition, California has REALLY expensive housing - it's those fantastic market forces at work! because nobody builds low-cost or even middle-cost housing (there's no money in it), and housing bubbles amp up prices beyond reach.

All in all, there are a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with California's policies on anything that draw a lot of the homeless, illegal immigrants, unemployed, and marginally employed to the area; or that create homelessness. And it's an option, because if worse comes to worse, you won't freeze to death if you live under an overpass or along the riverbeds or in your car.

That said, California also has some serious pandering to illegal immigrants.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

No power for 3,4, 5 DAYS, human crap in the streets, drug needles, and diseases!

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Huh? What does Trump have to do with any thing per this topic? CA is doing all this on their own. Have been for quite some time. Try not to deflect & look at what is going on today. Like power outages scheduled to last for days... taking place as we speak.

LOL @ trying to pin Venezuela’s decades old problem on Trump. Good grief.

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
(You'll notice I left out the Russian bit).

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
The obvious point here is that California is over regulating, overtaxing mismanaging, while micromanaging itself into oblivion .

And it doesn’t have to be that way. People have a choice, and should exercise their right to choose better.

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How is it obvious?

And yeah, people DO have a choice, which is why many of the nation's homeless come to - California! How is that a product of CA's over-regulation?

How is PG&E's bankruptcy - caused by its own failure to meet its own stated standard of maintenance - a problem of CA's over-regulation?

Draw the line between your claims and evidence!

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Originally posted by whozit:

The 2020 Dem candidates will be in L.A. for their next town hall, I wonder if any of that will come up?

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
(You'll notice I left out the Russian bit).

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That's because you're too chicken to post Russian Troll™ because you know it's libel.

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Originally posted by whozit:
The 2020 Dem candidates will be in L.A. for their next town hall, I wonder if any of that will come up?

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Betting dollars to donuts it won't, because the Dems have zero excuses nor can theyu blame anyone else because Dems fully control that state. It's their making, their mess and their ONLY hope is to get Kamala or some sympathetic D in the WH to bail them out w/ a massive federal bail out.

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Watch the video. Watch any video on the decimated quality of life for those in CA's major cities. CA's hyper green bureaucracy is the cause for much of the wildfires and their exponentially fast rates of growth and coverage in short periods of time.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Probably gonna take a massive quake + a good sized tsunami to clean the slate some.

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