California Political Class Insanity and Socialism, Part 2: White Collar Typhus, Rolling Blackouts, Not of This Country, and Financial Disaster

We have done any number of posts strictly focusing on the crises in different California cities, from going broke to large homeless problems to medieval diseases making a comeback. What was once the land of opportunity is now the land of impending disasters on several fronts, fronts we will be exploring in a series of posts.

Before going further, let’s review a few California realities we have covered previously:

• There are upwards of 30,000 homeless Americans roaming the streets of San Francisco.
• Without a home to go to, the city has made it legal to defecate, urinate,and shoot up drugs anywhere in the city including in public and on the streets of the city.
• This has led to a public health hazard and has caused the city to hire five full time government employees who go around the city each day in hazmat gear to pick up human feces and to clean the spot where it was found.
• Things are so bad that residents can use a city cell phone app to report where they found piles of feces.
• There are upwards of 60,000 homeless Americans in Los Angeles that is causing some of the same problems that are going down in San Francisco.
• Public defecation and urination in LA is causing health problems in that city which has actually led to the outbreak of at least one medieval disease, typhus, and the concern is that the bubonic plague may also make a comeback, given how the exploding rat population has fed off of the garbage that homelessness causes.

The reason we are doing so is to point out that the state that has had the most far reaching intrusions into freedom and citizens’ lives, the state that has put its nose into every aspect of citizens’ lives, the state that has has misspent and overspent its way way down the road of bankruptcy, and the state that has reduced the freedom of its citizens the most is the state of California. The state is by far the most socialistic state in the union and has basically been ruled by a single party for decades, the Democrats. 

And since a number of Democratic candidates for President have basically declared themselves to be socialists, I thought it might be an interesting subject to explore what would happen if socialism took over the whole country. What would it look like if the country took on the aspects of socialism and Democratic rule that has swept up California. Warning: the future is NOT bright if California is the leading edge.

In our first post we discovered three current characteristics of living in California:

• The rate of sexually transmitted diseases is skyrocketing.
• Gas prices are about twice as much as the average price across the country.
• Citizens are enduring rolling electricity blackouts.

Let’s find out what other “adventures” Californians are living through:

1) There are about 60,000 homeless Americans wandering the streets of Los Angeles. This has resulted in public defecation, public urination, and mountains of trash in the streets. All of this has led to an explosion in the rat population. Which is where we pick up the story:

• Apparently the medieval disease, typhus, has made a comeback in LA.
• And it is not only the homeless population that is danger, Los Angeles City Attorney Elizabeth Greenwood is suing the city for $5 million.
• She is claiming that she came down with typhus as a result of a rat infestation at her workplace...city hall!
• Keep in mind that typhus is spread by infected fleas on rats.
• The disease causes high fevers, headaches, and muscle pain.
• The disease dates back hundreds of years and had been mostly eliminated in modern societies because of improvements in sanitation and living standards.
• According to Dr. Negeen Farmland, a physician for the Saban Community Clinic, who often goes into the homeless population to treat those in need: "Typhus ... was something that was eradicated so many years ago. To have that come up again tells you that how bad the situation is."
• According to Ms. Greenwood, the disease, “felt like someone was driving stakes, railroad stakes through my eyes. It absolutely disabled me."
• Celebrity doctor,  Dr. Drew Pinsky, claims that typhus is not the only medieval making a comeback in LA, saying that the plague and tuberculosis are also making a comeback.
• City spokespeople insist that there are no typhus carrying fleas in the city hall.

But Ms. Greenwood is just one of many new typhus cases so wherever she got it is really immaterial to the bigger picture, she has it, which gives you an idea of how unhealthy LA has become.

2) According to a Freedom Outpost website article by Alicia Luke on October 13, 2019, Californians are getting a rude awakening because their politicians have forced many of them to install and use solar panels:

• It appears that even if you have solar panels on your home or business, in all likelihood you still have no electricity when the electric company goes to intentional blackouts.
• You see, the vast majority of solar installations feed electricity to the electric company’s grid during the daylight hours and the electric company gives back electrical power at night or on overcast days.
• There is no storage of solar panel electricity in someone’s home of business unless they also purchased expensive batteries.
• So when the electric company goes to an intentional blackout mode like what is going on in California now, solar powered buildings may just as well had no panels since those panels are useless in blackouts.

So, let’s review: California politicians, i.e. Democrats, mandate and encourage residents and businesses to convert to solar power at great expense. But those who put out the big bucks for solar energy are just as helpless when the local utilities go into intentional blackout mode, making solar power owners just as much in the dark as their neighbors who do not have any investment in solar energy.

3) I can give you statistics and news reports of how the socialism policies of California have brought disease, high taxes, public defecation and urination, skyrocketing housing prices, and other challenges for state residents. But let me refer you to an article by someone who once thought that San Francisco was one of the greatest cities in the world. But now, he says that, “San Francisco no longer feels like its in America”:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/16/san-francisco-no-longer-feels-like-its-in-america/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=san-francisco-no-longer-feels-like-its-in-america&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWWpjME9USTVNamN5TWpVNSIsInQiOiJJRG9temErcG15eW9WWklKZWVxMXJJMjBGSWVJdWdzVDRzeVdVT1Z1bUlCeXRPZXM4aEZiZVdrSlwvYUluSGhiWEp3YVBBcHpcLzhSUk56WlJyaE8yU3FHeWdGeXJYVkdhV2lCekpLQVwvalFnY0E2Rno1SlAwMWQyZjJCMDNqT0s3TCJ9
4) Let’s finish up today’s California lesson in socialism and the agony and failures it causes by going to a wonderful website run by an organization called “Truth In Accounting.” These folks do deep dives into the financial status and condition for every state and many major cities to get a true financial picture of what is really going on with a government entity’s financial condition. In the past, state and local governments have used accounting tricks to hide the true financial picture of a government. This website does accounting the right way to get rid of the hiding places and portray a true financial picture.

As you will see from its work, it is not just the living conditions that are deteriorating rapidly in California, the financial picture is not that great either. In fact, it has earned a grade of “F” from Truth In Accounting’s analysis because:

• The state will have about $114 billion in assets to pay its future, expected bills and costs.
• But it will face $389 billion in total liabilities that need to be funded, leaving it $275 billion short of what it needs to pay its current commitments and expected costs.
• To theoretically cover this shortfall, every California taxpayer would have to write a check for $21,800 to help the state government not go bankrupt.
• But that number is probably too small since California politicians have not shown any propensity or desire to get spending under control so the financial situation is likely to get worse before it gets better.
• This financial situation makes it the 43rd worst state in the union according to Truth In Accounting’s analysis.
• State politicians have committed California taxpayers to pay over half a trillion dollars in future government employee retirement benefits in the coming years but they have not funded over $220 billion of the half a trillion dollar liability.
• The state also has almost $134 billion in bonds that will have to be paid off in the future.
• If every taxpayer did give the state’s politicians $21,800 to pay off the financial hole these politicians dug, then that would be money that could not be used to grow the economy and create jobs for the residents of the state. That money is strictly used for non-productive payoff of debts. But if the economy stops growing than there would be even less tax revenue coming into the state government which would make the debt crisis worse which then leads to a financial death spiral.
• In any case, as the state government gives more and more of its tax revenue to pay off its staggering F-rated debt load, that is less and less money available to improve schools, fix roads and bridges, help the thousands of homeless, etc. And thus, the quality California life goes out the window.

So, in our first California post we learned that:

1. The rate of sexually transmitted diseases is skyrocketing.
2. Gas prices are about twice as much as the average price across the country.
3. Citizens are enduring rolling electricity blackouts.

In this post we learned that:

1. You do not have to be homeless to get a medieval disease in Los Angeles, even white collar workers who work in the LA city hall can catch typhus.
2. Solar panels as required or suggested by Democrats in the state mean nothing when you have to suffer through unexpected and days long intentional electric company blackouts.
3. Someone who once loved San Francisco now thinks that it does not feel like you are in America any more when you visit the city.
4. The state government’s financial situation is worthy of an F and will eventually lead the state to bankruptcy.

Again, what was once possibly the greatest place to live in the country is now probably one of the worst places to live, likely do to the socialism mantra and failed programs that Democrats have brought to the entire state.

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