I
was born and raised in California; lived there 40 years. When
my husband was transferred to Ft. Carson as the new DEH (Dir.
Engineering and Housing) at Ft. Carson in 1989, I left for Colorado.
The destruction of that beautiful state is all but complete.
California's
state legislature has been controlled by socialists and Marxists
for decades - since 1970, except for two years, '95 & '96.
During that time, four governors were Republican, two Democratic/Communist
Party USA. The whole country has watched California implode financially
because of the never ending regulations slapped on businesses
who can no longer stay in business, pension obligations and the
cost of illegal aliens. The 2008 bust didn't help, but California
was headed towards insolvency before that because of insane spending
for decades.
What
California Recovery? January Sales and Use Tax DOWN 9%
"You
can tell the vibrancy of an economy by looking at the sales tax
and use tax revenues. In January those were done 9% in California.
That means while income tax collection were up, sales were down.
People are either paying off debt or see the next hard Depression
hitting the State and savings money for that reality.
"Oh,
our cash deficit is only $12.6 billion. To Brown that is called
a “surplus—he is confused. Sales and use taxes were $120.1 million
below, or 9 percent, expectations. The State ended the month with
a General Fund cash deficit of $12.6 billion, which was covered
with both internal and external borrowing. That figure was down
from last year, when the State faced a cash deficit of $15.7 billion
at the end of January 2013.”
Foreclosures
in California were up 57% in January. Some recovery underway.
Job losses continue to mount:
Occidental
Petroleum: Moving HQ From California to Houston
Another
Major California Firm Moving to Texas: Raytheon160 Jobs Gone
A
huge chunk of their financial insolvency is supporting illegal
aliens and making sure they get preferential treatment and free
everything. The two main reasons I left my home state for good
in 2006 (John retired and we moved back to California for awhile)
was astronomical personal state income taxes and illegals. Yes,
Texas does have illegal aliens, but nothing like California even
though our current governor, Rick Perry, is soft on them. I think
for the most part, Texas is a pathway to states like NJ where
illegals get
support from politicians like Chris Christie.
It
costs LA
county alone $1.6 BILLION dollars last year to support liars,
cheats and thieves. Every member of their county board of stupidvisors
who votes to authorize funding is in
violation of federal law:
"It
was Truman who pushed the Federal Immigration and National Act
of 1952 through Congress in the closing days of his administration.
Under Section 8 USC 1324[a](1)(A)[iv][b](iii) any US citizen that
knowingly assists an illegal alien, provides them with employment,
food, water or shelter has committed a felony. City, county or
State officials that declare their jurisdictions to be "Open Cities,
Counties or States are subject to arrest; as are law enforcement
agencies who chose not to enforce this law. Police officers who
ignore officials who violate Section 8 USC 1324[a](1)(A)[iv][b](iii)
are committing a Section 274 federal felony. Furthermore, according
to Federal Immigration and National Act of 1952, if you live in
a city, county or State that refuses to enforce the law for whatever
reason, the officials making those rules are financially liable
for any crime committed within their jurisdiction by an illegal
alien."
Yet,
not a single law enforcement agency in California has gone after
the enablers which would send a clear message to the governor,
former cocaine aficionado, Jerry Brown, their legislature and
mayors in that state who protect illegals. As a matter of fact,
last year governor Moonbeam Brown did something that should have
prompted a recall and arrest:
California
won't turn arrested illegal immigrants over to feds
"Reversing
his position from a year ago, Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed
a law that shields illegal immigrants arrested on suspicion of
many crimes from being turned over to immigration authorities.
Coming on the heels of Brown signing a bill allowing illegal immigrants
to obtain driver's licenses, Brown's signature on the so-called
Trust Act signaled a personal turnaround."
To
further make a joke out of enforcing immigrations laws, the criminal
syndicate out in DC has pulled another toxic trick while the Republican
controlled U.S. House of Representatives does nothing:
Feds
give businesses break on hiring illegals
I'm
sure that's a real morale booster for border patrol agents and
Native American tribes who are also assisting in stopping illegal
aliens and drug smugglers from entering this country: DHS’s
Special Partnership with Native Americans
California
is, again, suffering a world class drought. If you go
to this site, you'll see just how devastating it is. The first
two photos are before and after of Lake Oroville in No. California
where my 86-year old mother lives. The past few days California
has received good, steady rain which is supposed to continue through
Friday in many parts of the state, but it will not solve their
problem. What they need is a healthy snow pack and while they'll
get some, it's not enough. Farmers in the billion dollar crop
belt are desperate, again. Ranchers are selling their beef out
of state; no water. It is a dire situation.
It's
estimated there are approximately 8 million illegal aliens in
the State of California. How much water do you think 8 million
illegals use everyday for baths, showers, cooking, cleaning, drinking,
laundry, flushing toilets and other activities? In Sacramento,
the average use per person is 279 gallons per day; SF gay Bay
Area about 98, Palm Springs desert area a whopping 736 gallons
a day and the LA basin where millions of liars, cheats and thieves
live is about 180 gallons per day per person; see
chart here.
Now
you're talking millions of gallons of water used every
day by illegal aliens who have no right to be in the
State of California much less suck down her resources. The people
in California who continue to vote for poltroons like Jerry Brown
and reelect the same lunatics back to their legislature have no
one to blame but themselves. It's not just illegals, it's also
environmental zealots:
California
Fights Two Droughts, One Of Them Man-Made
"Californians
have not built a major reservoir since the New Melones Dam more
than 30 years ago. As the state subsequently added almost 20 million
people, it assumed that it was exempt from creating any more "unnatural"
Sierra lakes and canals to store precious water during California's
rarer wet and snowy years.
"Short-sightedness
soon became conceit. Green utopians went further and demanded
that an ailing 3-inch bait fish in the San Francisco delta receive
more fresh oxygenated water. In the last five years, they have
successfully gone to court to force millions of acre-feet of contracted
irrigation water to be diverted from farms to flow freely out
to sea.
"Others
had even grander ideas of having sal-mon again in their central
rivers, as they recalled fishing stories of their ancestors from
when the state population was a fifth of its present size and
farming a fraction of its present acreage. So they too sued to
divert even more water to the sea in hopes of having game fish
swim from the Pacific Ocean up to arid Fresno County on their
way to the supposedly ancestral Sierra spawning grounds. The wages
of both nature's drought and human folly are coming due."
And:
"While
the rains have not come down in the amounts needed, pouring 800,000
acres feet of water into the ocean last year because of the delta
smelt is downright dumb. The Central Valley needs water, yet 50%
of its water goes to the protection of fish. California has not
been allowed to build a new water storage facility since 1972—when
the environmentalists win the people of the State lose—and we
have been losers for more than 40 years.
“Short-sightedness
soon became conceit. Green utopians went further and demanded
that an ailing 3-inch bait fish in the San Francisco delta receive
more fresh oxygenated water. In the last five years, they have
successfully gone to court to force millions of acre-feet of contracted
irrigation water to be diverted from farms to flow freely out
to sea."
Environmentalists
Fraud—Want Farms to Close Down—THEN Refuse to Allow Development
or Use of Land
"The
environmental movement has destroyed as many jobs as Obama—both
claiming to “help”. California has a drought, so the enviros have
a solution—close down farms. Of course the farmers will still
be paying taxes on the land—they will want to develop it. At that
point the environmentalists will claim we do not have the water
or that an expensive EIR will show a heretofore unknown animal,
bug or fish exists and needs protection—at the cost of the farmer.
"This
is how environmentalists steal private land—they create policies
that make the land unusable, then the owners have to walk away.
Shame on us for allowing these thieves to steal, again. “She says
instead of spending an estimated $67 billion on the governor's
tunnels, a much smaller amount of money should be spent on buying
up impaired land on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley and
taking it out of growing thousands of almond and pistachio trees
and miles of grape vines. But it's not just the growth of permanent
crops on the west side of the valley that has helped put the state
into a water emergency, says Bill Jennings, executive director
of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance.”
I
am also convinced weather modification programs run by the U.S.
government, the aerosol spraying of our skies, has drastically
changed our weather patterns causing all of us to suffer. Geoengineering
is yet another issue that can't be covered in 500 words or less.
However, there are excellent, FACTUAL web sites for more information:
Brazen
Propaganda From NASA (aerosol crimes) by Clifford E Carnicom.
Full
list of his columns is here. Also: Agriculture
Defense Coalition has thousands of documents.
During
my adult years while living in California, there were droughts.
I always wondered why California didn't built desalinization plants?
The single main factor fed to the public is too expensive. Well,
when you have a multi-year drought that racks up BILLIONS for
several years in a row in crop losses, unemployment and higher
food costs for everyone, how expensive is that? Better to spend
BILLIONS keeping liars, cheats and thieves in the state illegally.
How expensive do you think this will be heaped on the backs of
American citizens in California trying to put food on the table:
UCLA
Study: 125,000 Illegal Alien Youth Eligible for FREE MediCaid—ObamaCare
a Magnet for Criminals From Foreign Nations
And,
yet, the voters of California continue to put up with it. You
watch, all those Democratic/Communist USA incumbents in their
legislature will get reelected this year. Financial suicide. Lawlessness
by a state legislature, the governor and attorney general.
There
are seventeen desalinization plants in the planning stages in
California with the biggest desalinization plant in the Western
hemisphere already under construction set to start the water flowing
in two years. As it so happens, it's in Carlsbad (above San Diego)
where I will be next month. That $1 billion dollar plant will
provide 50 million gallons of water a day - just one plant. $1
billion for life saving water vs tens of billions in tax dollars
over the last decade to keep illegal aliens in the state instead
of deporting them. This
article has a good breakdown on those plants.
Two
years is a long time when you consider just how bad off California
is and will be if they don't get at least another 15" of rain
after the storm hitting them right now. Ideally, another two feet
of water would boost those reservoirs, but at the rate California
drinks water, Californians had better pray for more rain before
summer.
I'm
also wondering about Fukushima and water coming out of the Pacific
Ocean. The effects of Fukushima have been poo-poo'd by media,
politicians and some scientists. I did a column on it last year:
Fukushima: What You Need to Know. It's only gotten worse. While
I understand the basics of taking salt and other impurities out
of the water, desalinization does not remove radiation:
New
York's First Desalination Plant Raises Radiation Fears
If
you go to Rense.com,
right in the middle of the page is a plethora of articles about
Fukushima. This
article contains useful information about radiation exposure:
"According
to the National Academy of Sciences, there are no safe doses of
radiation. Decades of research show clearly that any dose of radiation
increases an individual's risk for the development of cancer.
“There is no safe level of radionuclide exposure, whether from
food, water or other sources. Period,” said Jeff Patterson, DO,
immediate past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
“Exposure to radionuclides, such as iodine-131 and cesium-137,
increases the incidence of cancer. For this reason, every effort
must be taken to minimize the radionuclide content in food and
water.”
“Consuming
food containing radionuclides is particularly dangerous. If an
individual ingests or inhales a radioactive particle, it continues
to irradiate the body as long as it remains radioactive and stays
in the body,” said Alan H. Lockwood, MD, a member of the Board
of Physicians for Social Responsibility."
Some
restaurants in the Southern California area are no longer serving
any fish coming out of the Pacific Ocean. Fukushima is a major
disaster, a crime against humanity that's already affecting the
U.S. While those desalinization plants are desperately needed,
it would be criminal for California not to test the water being
sucked into the plant because of Fukushima - even two years down
the road. From day one it was and still is being handled by incompetent
fools who have put an ocean and millions of people at risk - all
for money.
Fukushima
happened three years ago March 11th; the fall out from it has
been moving at us for years. That plant is still an on-going,
deadly disaster as they continue to pump massive amounts of contaminated
water into the ocean. That is not hyperbole. Like so many others,
I've been following it for years. The day is coming when the controlled
"mainstream" media and politicians can no longer cover it up with
propaganda.
Links:
1
- Senior
Scientist: Fukushima problem getting worse — Leaks from plant
becoming stronger —
We're back to where we just can't predict how long and how much
is coming out of there
2 - With no background or security checks; 11
million is a bogus figure when you consider the numbers in California:
Will
Amnestied Illegal Aliens Bankrupt New Jersey and California?
3 - California's
Drought Isn't Due To Global Warming, But Politics
4 - California
Drought: Why Farmers are ‘Exporting Water’ to China
5 - Geoengineering
Ineffective Against Climate Change, Could Make Worse