16,000 people in L.A. now live in cars, vans and RVs. ,Tar Oozes From Ground Into LA

[Legion]

California will be held up for a model of what will happen to the country if Democrats get any kind of control

true story bro

Why does California have the nation’s highest poverty level?

Fact: It is the nation’s most poverty-stricken state.

Just over 20 percent of Californians are living in poverty. The Public Policy Institute of California has devised its own measure, similar to the Census Bureau’s, that not only validates the 20 percent figure, but tells us that another 20 percent of Californians are in “near-poverty,” which means they struggle to pay for food, shelter and other necessities of life.

Another indicator of California’s impoverishment is that more than a third of its 39 million residents are enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state-federal program of medical care for the poor. And that doesn’t count a few million more who cannot legally obtain Medi-Cal coverage because they are undocumented immigrants.



http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/13/walters-why-does-california-have-the-nations-highest-poverty-level/

I want to know why liberals lie about California's poverty problem.

Even uber-liberal propaganda site Politifact admits that California leads the USA in poverty.




http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jan/20/chad-mayes/true-california-has-nations-highest-poverty-rate-w/

[Legion]

They’ve led the nation in welcoming illegal immigrants, sanctuary cities, the minimum wage, welfare programs, and stupid Hollywood celebrities.

Despite all that (especially the leftist brain trust in Tinseltown), the state also leads the nation in poverty.

And not just because it’s the largest state by population, but by percentage.

More than one in five Californians now live in poverty, new data released by the Census Bureau indicates.

At 20.4 percent, that poverty rate is higher than in any other state (only Washington DC has a higher rate at 21 percent). The national poverty rate stands at 14.7 percent.

Amazingly, The Orange County Register reports, while the state with the largest economy in the country has 12 percent of the national population, they account for a full one-third of all families in the nation receiving money from the Clinton-era “Temporary Assistance for Needy Families,” which sucks almost $20 billion from the federal budget.

Why are so many Californians in poverty? There are many reasons. One of the first is the high cost of housing.

According to a report on the housing crisis by the California Department of Housing and Community Development, “production averaged less than 80,000 new homes annually over the last 10 years, and ongoing production continues to fall far below the projected need of 180,000 additional homes annually.”

As a result, homeownership rates are at the lowest they’ve been since the 1940s, as increasing proportions of renters find themselves rent-burdened.

According to the California Budget & Policy Center, more than half of renter households pay more than 30 percent of their incomes for housing, and one-third pay more than half of their incomes for housing.

So while only 12 percent of the population, 22 percent of the country’s homeless are in California.

But there are other factors, as the OC Register points out: They have some of the highest tax rates in the country and some of the least business-friendly policies as well.

In a recent WalletHub report on overall tax burdens, California ranked 10th-worst in the country. Meanwhile, the Tax Foundation ranked California 48th in its 2017 State Business Tax Climate Index due to California’s distinction of having some of the highest income, sales and corporate tax rates in the nation.

California is consistently ranked as one of the worst states to do business in. For the last 13 years, in fact, the state has ranked dead last for “perceived business friendliness.”

Taken together, California’s barriers to business will, in turn, harm the poor the most. If California wants to seriously address its high levels of poverty and factors aggravating it, like high housing costs, it must relinquish its commitment to excessive taxation and regulation.

DEMOCRATS who control California will not learn a thing from this lesson. They will continue to drive their state further into the ditch by sucking taxpayers dry, alienating the business community and imposing burdensome and idiotic regulations on its people.



http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/california-leads-nation-in-poverty

[reagansghost]

Speaking of gated communities, I'm worried that's the future of America -- right-wingers will succeed in having the plight of the poor neglected so badly, and in under-funding basic public services so much, that the only decent living will be in private communities, behind walls, where the traditional functions of government are covered by private contract.

For sure, these people are greedy but not stupid (well they are kinda stupid for thinking they can create their own world and ignore everyone else forever).

I'm sure you've seen what the super-rich have been up to for a while...............https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...the-super-rich

it's actually a little creepy imagining these people holed up in some desert or on a remote island...........doing what exactly? Drinking themselves to a gruesome death?

[Legion]

Thank you.

Liberals are impervious to facts, Cap'n.






CalPERS' unfunded liability grew $27.3 billion to $138.6 billion, shows the most recent data for the pension fund contained in its annual financial report, posted on its website.

The data lags a year, marking the end of a 12-month period in which the $344.4 billion system had a 0.61% investment return compared to the 11.2% return for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017.

CalPERS officials have estimated the system is 68% funded as of June 30, a drop from 68.3% a year earlier and 73.1% at the end of the 2015 fiscal year.

Also, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, Sacramento, is also in the midst of a plan to lower its investment return assumptions to 7% from 7.5% by July 1, 2019.



http://www.pionline.com/article/20171205/ONLINE/171209922/calpers-sees-unfunded-liabilities-rise-27-billion

[reagansghost]

Fact: It is the nation’s most poverty-stricken state.

I believe it, TONS of refugees from the OKC and other hick hell holes

[Legion]

SANCTUARY IN THE DEMOCRAT'S SAFE SPACE

Liberal California and conservative Texas are different in many ways – including their poverty rates.

California’s poverty rate is 20.4 percent and the Texas rate is only 14.7 percent, based on the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which accounts for the regional cost of living, out-of-pocket medical expenses and other items.

Why the dramatic difference in poverty between California and Texas – proportionately 38.8 percent higher in the Golden State, and affecting the lives of millions of people? And what can we as a nation learn from the success of Texas and the failure of California to hold down their poverty rates?

Three big factors are responsible for California having more poor people and Texas having fewer as a portion of their state populations:

1. California has high state and local tax rates, while the rates in Texas are low.
2. California has a generous welfare system that acts as a disincentive to work, while Texas incentivizes people to get jobs.
3. California’s many burdensome regulations raise the cost of living and act as roadblocks to development, while inflating housing costs. So a family needs to have a higher income to get out of poverty in California than it needs in Texas.

California has the nation’s highest marginal state income tax rate – 13.3 percent. Texas is one of seven states without a state income tax.

The higher taxes are, the less money families have. High taxes mean employers have less money to hire new workers and raise the salaries of workers already on their payrolls.















http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/09/21/liberal-california-fails-at-fighting-poverty-conservative-texas-succeeds.html

[cawacko]

Folks think it's a bunch of poor uneducated right wingers living in multi-million homes in gated cities? Cities like L.A. and SF are just playgrounds for the rich and we know these folks aren't right wingers. And they send their kids to $40K+ private schools with other rich kids or they move to largely white suburbs with good public schools.

And this is in a state where we "care" about government and "care" about the poor.

[reagansghost]

Folks think it's a bunch of poor uneducated right wingers living in multi-million homes in gated cities? Cities like L.A. and SF are just playgrounds for the rich and we know these folks aren't right wingers. And they send their kids to $40K+ private schools with other rich kids or they move to largely white suburbs with good public schools.

And this is in a state where we "care" about government and "care" about the poor.

you need to leave SF, horrible environment for bitter libertarians

[Legion]

SANCTUARY FOR ALL IN THE DEMOCRAT PARADISE

Some 1 out of 3 Americans who receive federally qualified welfare payments –Temporary Assistance for Needy Families – are Californians.

California has expanded Medicaid (called Medi-Cal there), to cover 13.5 million people. About one-third of state residents are enrolled in the health insurance program for the poor funded by the federal government and the state.

On the jobs front, California’s environmental and energy policies have created costly and burdensome regulations that have accelerated the shift of manufacturing and other jobs out of the state and out of the country to China and other nations.

When combined with generous welfare payments, this has resulted in fewer adults participating in the workforce in California than the national average.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2017/09/22/california-or-texas-which-state-has-a-lower-poverty-rate/#77d2a5375fb1

[Legion]

TONS of refugees from the OKC and other hick hell holes

Prove it.

I'll understand if you can't, of course.

[reagansghost]

homeless people in the OKC are hitchhiking to LA for the weather and hot chicks

no prob, I love LA

[reagansghost]

homeless people in the OKC are hitchhiking to LA for the weather and hot chicks

no prob, I love LA

[Sailor]

homeless people in the OKC are hitchhiking to LA for the weather and hot chicks

no prob, I love LA

So OKC kicked your sorry ass out and you decided to leech off liberals in CA. Finally, some honesty from you.

[Truth Detector]

That's the thing. Conservatives like to obsess about the problems of cities in liberal areas. But if you judge by the bottom line --by how much people are willing to spend for the privilege of living in an area-- even the worst of the "liberal cities" are viewed as better than the conservative alternatives (urban or rural). When people jabber on the Internet, they're free to make up any old nonsense. But when people have to put their money where their mouths are, you get a sense for what they really think. And they generally think that living in liberal areas is worth paying a premium.

More made up bullshit and word salad; you're quite full of it.

[Truth Detector]

Generally speaking, the flow of funds in the US is from high-earning areas to low-earning ones, especially to highly subsidized areas (e.g., farming communities and places that suck heavily on the federal teat for their military bases, retiree living expenses, and disaster relief). So, the "free shit" is more of a conservative-area thing.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-mos...vernment/2700/

Of the ten states with the highest dependency on that list, nine were Trump states, while the highly urbanized and liberal states, like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and California, tend to have below-median dependency.

Another stupid claim from the idiot brigade.