Newsom is ginning that the California unemployment rate is 7.9%–but the real rate, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics is the U-6 rate of 18.9%–almost one in five Californians are unemployed. Worse that is four points higher than any other State. The national average for gas is $3.13 this past week—what did you pay? In Simi Valley it is around $4.29. San Fran has an office vacancy rate of just over 20%–double what it was a year ago—and growing. Florida has been open for a year, the kids are back in school—and the State has mandated the end of teaching and promoting racism in the schools—while California si demanding every kid become a racist. Any wonder we lost one congressional seat and Florida gained two?
“Should lots of new housing be built in the interest of affordability? California says no, Florida says yes. Should homeless people be allowed to turn public spaces into tent cities? California says yes, Florida says no. Should public elementary schools teach critical race theory? California says yes, Florida says no. Should gas be $4 a gallon? California says yes, Florida says no. Should biological males be allowed to dominate girls’ sports? Florida says no. California not only says yes, but it is trolling Florida by forbidding its employees to take state-funded trips to Florida, as well as 16 other states.
California fancies itself imposing its cultural values on other states and tackling global warming independently; Florida has a more modest view of what a state government does. People are voting on all of this with their U-Hauls. California’s population in 2020 shrank for the first time ever, by 180,000 people, whereas Florida had the second-highest increase in population, after Texas.”
California is a dying and Third world State. Florida is in the 21st century, vibrant, successful and free. No contest, California is the haphazard Washington Generals to the winning Harlem Globetrotter’s.
California and Florida battle for the soul of a nation
By Kyle Smith, NY Post, 7/8/21
Thanks to the blessings of decentralization, life can vary greatly in America depending on where you sit. Those differences are growing into a chasm of philosophical and practical contrasts between two basic models for the American future. Call them the California way and the Florida way.
On many critical questions facing our culture, our economy and our society, California and Florida offer radically different answers.
Should lots of new housing be built in the interest of affordability? California says no, Florida says yes. Should homeless people be allowed to turn public spaces into tent cities? California says yes, Florida says no. Should public elementary schools teach critical race theory? California says yes, Florida says no. Should gas be $4 a gallon? California says yes, Florida says no. Should biological males be allowed to dominate girls’ sports? Florida says no. California not only says yes, but it is trolling Florida by forbidding its employees to take state-funded trips to Florida, as well as 16 other states.
California fancies itself imposing its cultural values on other states and tackling global warming independently; Florida has a more modest view of what a state government does. People are voting on all of this with their U-Hauls. California’s population in 2020 shrank for the first time ever, by 180,000 people, whereas Florida had the second-highest increase in population, after Texas.
During the pandemic, California introduced some of the harshest lockdown measures in the country, crashing its economy, while Florida was among the first states to begin reopening, way back in May 2020, and has been almost entirely open since September. Disney World reopened in July 2020; Disneyland reopened at the end of April 2021. One survey found that Florida had the second-fewest coronavirus restrictions; California ranked 45th by the same measure.
