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Way back when we didn’t even know who the candidates would be in November’s election, I said there would be one choice above all.
The choice for the country would boil down to “Which direction America?” And if you boiled that question down further, the question would be, “California or Florida?”
Both states are sunshine states. Both have a huge amount going for them in their weather, their natural beauty and much more. But they are also polar opposites — geographically and, more importantly, politically.
Today, Florida is a poster child for Republicans. A place of low taxes and reformable education. And a state that was sane during the insanity of COVID.
California, on the other hand, is the poster child for Democrats. A place of high taxes, the most insanely indoctrinated education. And a place which went absolutely nuts during COVID.
Between them, you still see the choice for this country. And the decision of Kamala Harris to run for the presidency makes the choice even clearer.
Because of course before she began her DEI journey to the White House, Harris was senator for California. Before that, she was attorney general of California and district attorney of San Francisco.
When people look at the scarred dystopia of what should be one of America’s most beautiful cities, they can, to a great extent, thank Kamala.
The current situation in San Francisco and California as a whole is Kamala’s creation.
If she does rise to the highest office in the land in November, we certainly know what to expect. America will not go the way of Florida. It will go the way of California.
Like Gavin Newsom, Kamala is one of those West Coast politicians who, after ruining a city and then a state, seems to hope they can roll out the same disaster across the whole land.
What wonders can we expect?
Well, just yesterday we learned that the Democrat-controlled California Legislature has found a new way to go bust even faster than before.
The bill that easily cleared the state Senate 25-14 and then 45-15 majorities is called Assembly Bill 1840. And it is addresses one of the big housing needs in the state.
Does it plan to do anything to address sky-high property prices in dirty and crime-ridden San Fran? Does it seek to do anything about the people who can just pitch tents in front of your house and live there because of their “right to rest”?
No — the bill has summoned up a whole new type of crazy.
It aims to help illegal migrants to get on the housing ladder.
Yes, you read that right. The California state Senate has decided that “undocumented immigrants” (illegals) should be eligible for a taxpayer-funded home loan program.
This would provide up to $150,000 in down payment help for eligible first-time home buyers.
Just to recap that: This means that an illegal migrant who has never paid anything into the system in Social security or taxes is going to be helped out by law-abiding taxpayers onto the already inflated California housing ladder.
Please, can someone make it make sense?
Why should people who have played by the rules keep having to shell out money to people who haven’t? Are all the legal migrants and born-and-bred Americans already on the housing ladder?
Does every legal Californian already live in their dream house? If not, then where is the sense in deciding to make a priority of giving taxpayer funds to people who have broken into the country illegally and helping them — of all people — to have a
better life?
Nor is this the only nutty California policy to help illegal immigrants.
At the beginning of this year, California became the first state to offer health insurance to all illegal immigrants. All illegal immigrants — no matter their age — are now eligible for Medi-Cal (California’s version of Medicaid).
Previously, California allowed illegals age 19 to 25 as well as adults from 50 on up to be on Medi-Cal. But apparently that was not affirming or welcoming enough.
So now, a further 700,000 or so illegals ages 26 to 49 are also eligible for California health insurance.
Again, are the health insurance provisions for all legal residents of California so grand that this final “inequity” can be addressed?
Is everyone else in the state so fit and healthy that treating illegal migrants is the final answer needed before nirvana?
Not on my visits to the state. Whenever I am in California — and especially in San Francisco — I spend a significant amount of my time wondering why on earth the pavements are covered in human feces and why so many people are zonked out on drugs in
the middle of the main shopping areas in the middle of the day.
But the California legislators have different priorities. In 2015, the state decided to allow illegal immigrants to acquire driver’s licenses. I suppose it’s convenient for the illegals, if no one else.
After all, California is absolutely covered in “sanctuary cities” which pledge not to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
Oakland — where Kamala Harris was born — became a sanctuary city in 1986. San Francisco in 1989. Los Angeles in 2023. But all these places always want to out-woke each other.
Which may be why Sacramento (where Kamala Harris served as attorney general) recently decided that being a sanctuary city isn’t enough.
Earlier this year, Democrats there voted to make Sacramento a “sanctuary city for transgender people.” Which will doubtless help the local economy no end. So long as the local economy is nothing but hormone sales and “gender reassignment surgery.”
This is the air that Kamala Harris breathed — but also created — throughout her time in California. And it gives us an idea of what she would like to roll out for the country.
At a time when illegal immigration is at an all-time high, it is clear that the Democrats want to prioritize everyone except for hard-working taxpayers. And help absolutely everyone out unless they are a non-trans person who is living in the US legally.
There is a lot of madness in that state. But a great deal of ruin for a nation that goes down the same path.
TomGenX
1 day ago
The average home price in California has just his a record high $900,000. To purchase such a home, one would have to put $250k down and take out a jumbo mortgage for the rest requiring an income of at least $270k annually for the next 20 years. And then
there are all sorts of other fees such as maintenance, taxes, and insurance which have all shot up dramatically in the last few years which could easily add $50k plus to the annual homeowners bill and what you will need to earn to pay for it. The
average household income in California (two earners) is between 71k-91k total and the average American family has less that $500 in savings. This means that virtually no one who has not already owned a home will be ever be able to buy a home in
California. I’m surprised that nobody is talking about this - not even Trump. It’s the same in all the states including Florida - just not as extreme as in California.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/29/opinion/harris-would-turn-nation-into-kamalafornia-where-illegal-immigrants-get-free-money/
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