California is in a DOOM LOOP. And either Gavin Newsom prefers lying or he is smoking funny cigarettes?
““It isn’t by accident that California is an economic powerhouse. Whether it be around education, infrastructure, or immigration, we’re following a formula for success,” California Governor Gavin Newsom claims in a video posted to X.
Newsom’s Formula for Success
In spite of Gavin Newsom’s leftist politics, there still are some successful businesses and industries in the state. But it is not because of Newsom’s or the state’s far-left Democrat politicians.
There is no ignoring Chief Executive Magazine which reports annually on the Best and Worst States for Business. Predictably, in their Best and Worst of 2024, California is ranked number #50 – again… the 11th… or 12th… or 13th year in a row.”
Major firms and new innovative firms are fleeing California. Middle class families are fleeing California—but are being replaced with illegal aliens who cost the taxpayers billions each year. We are a powerhouse—for other States.
The Gaslighting Governor: Gavin Newsom Shamelessly Claims California is an ‘Economic Powerhouse’
Newsom has never apologized to the people for unnecessarily destroying so many lives over a contagious flu
By Katy Grimes, California Globe, 10/12/24 https://californiaglobe.com/fl/the-gaslighting-governor-gavin-newsom-shamelessly-claims-california-is-an-economic-powerhouse/
“It isn’t by accident that California is an economic powerhouse. Whether it be around education, infrastructure, or immigration, we’re following a formula for success,” California Governor Gavin Newsom claims in a video posted to X.
Newsom’s Formula for Success
In spite of Gavin Newsom’s leftist politics, there still are some successful businesses and industries in the state. But it is not because of Newsom’s or the state’s far-left Democrat politicians.
There is no ignoring Chief Executive Magazine which reports annually on the Best and Worst States for Business. Predictably, in their Best and Worst of 2024, California is ranked number #50 – again… the 11th… or 12th… or 13th year in a row.
Remember, Gavin Newsom’s reaction to the Covid flu was to lock the entire state down for three years, as well as most of the 40 million residents. He’s never apologized to the people for unnecessarily destroying so many lives over a contagious flu.
Under his one-man rule, Californians suffered immensely.
During Covid, Newsom arbitrarily ordered all “non-essential” businesses closed while big box stores remained open. Newsom ordered churches closed while liquor stores remained open. Newsom ordered parks and beaches closed. He ordered restaurants closed, and then got caught enjoying a lovely meal out at the French Laundry in Napa Valley. He ordered people to forgo family holidays. He ordered gyms closed. He ordered Covid patients into nursing homes. Churches were only allowed to reopen for in-person religious services at 25% capacity or be held outdoors. He’d ordered music, TV and film production closed down. He ordered hotels to close down. Professional sports were closed down. Hair and nail salons and Estheticians were closed down. Concerts and festivals were ordered closed down by Gavin Newsom. He ordered live theater, nightclubs and theme parks closed down. As the Globe reported at this time, Newsom closed down anything fun. And he ordered retail stores closed down.
California permanently lost one-third of all small businesses thanks to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lockdown and shutdown orders. Combine Newsom’s authoritarian Covid orders with California’s overbearing regulatory environment, high taxes, inordinate fees, and the general high cost of doing business in the state, and many business owners have moved their operations to more business-friendly states.
Henry O’Loughlin of BuildRemote.co reported in December, “53 Headquarters Have Left San Francisco Since 2020. Where did they go? San Francisco businesses moved to Arizona, Utah, Virginia, Florida, and most to Texas. And 10 of those businesses moved in 2023.”
“Ruiz Foods isn’t the only large company to move their corporate headquarters to Texas in recent years. Tesla, for example, relocated their headquarters to Texas. Exxon Mobil, AT&T, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are just a few of many household names who moved to the Lone Star State.”
So claiming that California as an “economic powerhouse” is dishonest. The industry growing and hiring in California currently is state and local government.
As the California Policy Center reports, “California’s GDP today may be impressive, but the rate of GDP growth since 2000 does not begin to compare to its growth during the booming 1980s and 1990s.”
Education
As for education, besides ranking dead last in literacy, and nearly as bad in math, California’s public school system has turned into a sexually explicit DEI factory, foisting pornographic books on the little ones, by hard-core leftist teachers with purple hair. The educational priorities now include “comprehensive sexual health” under the banner of the California Healthy Youth Act, which curiously takes you to the ACLU Northern California.
Remember that Gov. Newsom closed down the public schools, public colleges and public universities, sending every student home to “distance” learn online for over two years. However, his own school-aged children continued attending their private school in Sacramento.
The SAT exam was cancelled. High schoolers lost college opportunities, academic scholarships, and sports scholarships. And while other states allowed athletics to return, California high school and club sports teams remained benched under Newsom’s cruel orders. Teen suicides exploded.
California’s school kids still have not recovered from the horrific learning loss.
Infrastructure
Gov. Newsom’s economic powerhouse on infrastructure, except California’s infrastructure is crumbling: bridges and highways are in third-world shape, desperate for regular maintenance and repairs. California’s energy grid is compromised because of increasing renewable energy mandates without the necessary oil and gas backup, the state suffers rolling blackouts, and turns the power off whenever the wind picks up.
According to Chief Executive magazine’s Best and Worst of 2024, as doubts fester about the reliability of the American electric grid, chiefs in power-hungry nascent industries are looking more closely at energy availability… and they are not looking in California.
We could produce all of our own energy needs with a “all of the above” policy, and have plenty left over for sale to other states, but Newsom instead has declared war with the oil and gas industry resulting in Chevron Oil Company announcing in August they are moving to Houston Texas from the Bay Area, where it has been based since 1879.
Chevron President Andy Walz sent a letter Tuesday condemning Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to decrease the state’s gas supply, which will clearly result in even higher gas prices at the pump.
Quite notably, Walz said of the 36 states in which they work, only California has the highest gas prices.
Nearly every expert in California agrees that more water infrastructure is necessary, because water restrictions and conservation alone will not provide a reliable water supply to Californians. Voters have approved more than $30 billion in water bonds which have not led to two approved reservoirs being built, or even more water storage.
Instead, Newsom and his appointed state water board have imposed water restrictions on the people, creating water scarcity, ostensibly to combat “climate change.” But in reality, Newsom’s “water scarcity” is a tool for amassing political power. California has plenty of water for urban and agriculture uses, just not the political interest in making it available for everyone. Controlling the water is the most powerful political tool Newsom has.
And then we have High Speed Rail – except it isn’t built yet. High Speed Rail has been under “construction” 16 years since 2008 when voters were convinced to approve Proposition 1A, a $9 billion bond to build a high speed rail system. However, high-speed rail has become nothing more than a pipeline project for grabbing taxpayer funds and is a big deceit on voters and taxpayers. I’ve been covering this for many years. State lawmakers and rail officials have treated the largest public works project in the state’s history as if it’s a design-as-you-go bathroom remodel, with unlimited funding.
And really, why would voters invest in technology that’s been around for over a 100 years?
Immigration
California is now the number one state to illegally cross into the United States. And why wouldn’t illegal aliens look to California – the first state to offer health insurance for all illegal immigrants, unemployment pay, and drivers licenses, and free education, and many layers of welfare benefits… illegal immigrants in California can apply for Disability Insurance (DI) and Paid Family Leave benefits, even if they do not have a Social Security number, according to the California EDD.
According to Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research Center for Immigration Studies, in congressional testimony, welfare use by illegal immigrants is 59.4 percent of illegal immigrant households, which use one or more welfare programs. Compared to the U.S.-born, illegal-headed households use every program at statistically higher rates, except for SSI, TANF and housing. Illegal immigrants have especially high use of cash (mainly the EITC), food programs and Medicaid.
Four years ago, the annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on services for that population and their children totaled $23 billion – it has to be double this amount now.
In June, “an audit conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG), found that California improperly claimed billions of dollars in federal reimbursements to pay for the health care of illegal aliens enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program,” the Federation for Immigration Reform reported. “Whether intentional or accidental, the state must repay the federal government a whopping $52.7 million. It may also be required to pay back money the federal government has given California in previous years.”
In May 2021 during the Covid pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he would let another 76,000 prisoners out of state prisons – on his own authority through Executive Order – as violent crime was spiking in California’s cities. Together with hundreds of thousands of drug-addicted homeless vagrants and millions of illegal immigrants, crumbling infrastructure, illiterate school children, is it any wonder that Gov. Newsom said a few years ago when he was looking at Los Angeles, “My God it looks like a third world country!”
