California Political Class Insanity and Socialism, Part 3: Bad Government Priorities, Bad Voting Processes and Cities Going Bankrupt

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 socislistic 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 two posts we discovered six 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.
• Medieval diseases are making a comeback in Los Angeles.
• Solar panels do nothing for you when the electric company blacks out your area on purpose.
• San Francisco no longer feels like America.
• The state government financial situation is very bleak.

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

1) America has been and should always be the land of the free where respecting others’ opinions is a given. But according to a recent article by Mairead McArdle, writing for the National Review website, California politicians not only force their control and ideas on California residents but they are trying to do the same with people outside of California:

• California politicians now have banned state sponsored travel to 11 states because they disagree with some aspect of those states’ laws and priorities.
• Iowa is the latest state to feel the “wrath” of California politicians.
• Apparently Iowa politicians do not want to use scarce Medicaid funds to pay for gender transition surgeries, preferring to use their limited funds for real sicknesses and real illnesses Iowans are suffering with.
• This ticked off California’s politicians so they put forth a ban that prohibits California state employees and college students to travel to Iowa using California state government money.

So, we know from previous discussions that there is a massive homeless problem in California, the state is going bankrupt, the state has seen the rise of Medieval diseases and the skyrocketing of STD disease rates, sky high gas prices and they are worried about what is going on in another state 1,500 miles away relative to tiny, tiny portion of the population in that other tiny, tiny state. Talk about bad priorities.

2)A recent report from KTLA discussed a voter registration study in California and the results were not good:

• Auditors found that in just a five month period that there were 84,000 duplicate voter registration records put on the voting books of California.
• In Los Angeles county there are 1.6 million more registered voters than there are eligible voters living in the county which is equivalent to having another city the size of Philadelphia in the state.
• Almost 20% of all counties in California have more registered voters than eligible voters.

It goes without saying that the potential for voter fraud and the destruction of one’s right to vote and their First Amendment rights is very high when the error range of your voting processes are so screwed up.

3) In our last California post we discussed the reality that the state of California has far more unfunded future liabilities than it has assets and tax revenue streams to pay for those liabilities. In fact, according to the Truth In Accounting organization, every California taxpayer would have to write a check to the state government for about $21,800 just to cover the debt shortfall, assuming that the shortfall does not get any larger, a highly unlikely event in that state.

The $21,800 is not the only check Californians would have to write from a debt perspective, seems that local government politicians have also dug their voters and constituents a deep debt hole at the city level:

• While Truth in Accounting gave the state government of California an “F” rating relative to its financial situation, it gives the city of Los Angeles a “D” rating, not much better.
• Every taxpayer in the city of Los Angeles would have to write a check for $6,000 to eliminate the unfunded debt liability of the city, meaning that a Los Angeles resident would have to spend $27,800 to keep their city and state governments from going bankrupt.
• But LA residents get off easy since if they lived in San Francisco they would have to write a check for $22,800 to help eliminate the deep debt hole that their city politicians have dug for their city, bringing their total debt burden to a whopping $44,600 to keep their city and state governments from going bankrupt.
• And the city debt burden per taxpayer is also bad in other California cities, $21,100 in Oakland, $4,000 in Sacramento, and $7,200 in Anaheim.

Thus, state politicians have created giant holes of unfunded liabilities at both the state AND local levels, holes that can only be filled by large increases in taxes or eventual bankruptcy.

So, what did we learn today about California politicians:

1. They have really bad priorities, worrying about a nit of an issue over a thousand miles away when major issues in their own state go unresolved.
2. Local California governments still do not know how to run an efficient and effective voter registration program.
3. It is not only the California state government that is likely headed towards bankruptcy because of its pathetic handling of the state’s financial obligations but local city politicians have also dug major debt holes for their city residents.

Combining the past three posts we see that the state of California, a laboratory for socialism and intrusive politicians, has resulted in: high rates of sexually transmitted diseases and the comeback of Medieval maladies, financial ruin, rolling electricity blackouts, bad priorities of politicians, high taxation, high homelessness rates, high gas prices, and a voting registration process that is out of control and open to massive fraud.

If California is a leading edge for the rest of the country, then this is the world we can expect.

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