XM MLB Chat: California resident favorability rating drops 50% from 1985-2011. Wrecked because it was wreckable

California was the biggest and best state in America, there for the taking. As Gordon Gekko might say, it was wrecked because it was wreckable. They claimed to 'care' about the environment, took over government and wrecked it. Similar people advise governments how to confine US populations to urban clusters (so as to eliminate cars except for people like movie stars and Al Gore).

3/18/11, "Field Poll: Quality of life plunges in California," SF Chronicle, Berton

"Californians are bummed out.

The Golden State's residents rated their quality of life at its lowest mark in almost 20 years, citing the economic downturn and stagnant personal finances, according to a joint

UC Berkeley and Field Poll.

"Residents are reconsidering the image of the Golden State and showing more ambivalence toward it," said Jack Citrin, a Berkeley political science professor who co-wrote the report. "The changes going on - socially, culturally, economic - have made people here less Pollyannaish about the reality of life here."

The poll, based on a telephone survey of 898 registered voters in February, showed that only 39 percent considered the state "one of the best places to live," compared with the glory days of 1985, when

78 percent gave the state the highest rating.

Californians' self-assessment has gradually declined since then, with occasional spurts of optimism, until the appraisal rock-bottomed in 1992 at the tail end of a national recession.

Jon Christensen, the executive director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University, said while the poll reflected personal financial woes. Californians are also bothered by a dysfunctional state government mired in a budget crisis.

"The state's dysfunction as a whole feeds into this worry that this is far from one of the best places to live," Christensen said. "One would think that a criterion for someone to say, 'This is one of the best places to live,'

is that it's well governed."

At risk is the concept of California - land of world-class universities, beautiful open landscapes, perpetual job growth, and opportunities for immigrants, Christensen said.

"I say this in a positive way: When the myth of California gets questioned, when all of those things become disconnected, people begin to consider the reality," he said. "This is a wake-up call to fix all of those things."

The report also asked residents whether immigration had an impact on their quality of life.

Most voters - 47 percent - said immigration had no real impact.

Yet of those who said immigration had changed California, 39 percent said it lowered their quality of life, while 10 percent said immigration made life here better.

Brian Peterson, 45, a landscape gardener in Yreka (Siskiyou County), said that if he had been polled, he would have answered Option B, "California is a nice but not outstanding place to live."

In the past 20 years, Peterson said his community near the Oregon border has lost jobs in the timber and mining industries because of more stringent state

regulations and pressure from environmentalists.

"The location is excellent," Peterson said. "I love my local community. But the state politics suck. It comes from either Sacramento or Washington, D.C., and

they don't know what's best for us up here."

Peterson said illegal immigration - as opposed to legal immigration - has negatively impacted the state's quality of life. That's part of the reason he's the unofficial spokesman for the State of Jefferson, a group of secessionists who would like

to see Northern California counties create their own state.

"Our county is rural, poor, but big," Peterson said. "If we could make decisions on our local laws and business rules that work for us - then

our quality of life would increase.""...

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Given enough time you can convince people of anything (plenty of people think stoning to death for adultery is fine). Californians have chosen to put time and effort into the idea that marijuana legalization is a way to help the economy.

So they put the issue on the ballot:

10/25/10, Soros: "Besides allowing adults 21 and older to grow and possess marijuana, the initiative would allow cities and counties to authorize commercial cultivation,

sales and taxation."...

Reference, "Multibillionaire investor George Soros backs Proposition 19," LA Times, Local, 10/25/10

Commenter

Posted by: Race for the Money | October 25, 2010 at 10:19 PM

"Prop 19 is a race for the money. Who is the next billionaire? Richard Lee? Zoros, trillionaire? The corporations are taking over.

Read Prop 19.

(b) Statutes and authorized regulations to further the purposes of the act to establish a statewide regulatory system for a COMMERCIAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY that addresses some or all of the items referenced in Sections 11301 and 11302 of the Health and Safety Code.

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2/26/11, "“Sustainability has less to do with the environment, and everything to do with economics. It is an attack on capitalism, and

an attack on America’s middle class lifestyle.”"

2/26/11, "Agenda 21 Part III: Maryland County Abolishes Agenda 21 – Now it’s Your Turn," Big Government, James M. Simpson

"An in-depth explanation of Sustainable Development published in the local (Maryland) paper:

Sustainability invokes government power to enforce activists’ views of environmentalism. They want to replace farmers’, ranchers’ and other landowners’ concept of stewardship with government-centric control. It merges environmentalism and socialism to expand government into every aspect of our lives, including

land use,
food production,
housing,
transportation,
manufacturing,
energy rationing and
even health care.

He identifies the ICLEI for what it really is:

…an organization with extreme beliefs on global warming that promotes United Nations’ big-government socio-economic policies....
“So, we call our process something else,
such as comprehensive planning, growth management, or smart growth.”...
Finally, there is another even more pernicious factor that may underline politicians’ motivations to support this wholesale assault on private property....“We have our own rural agricultural diversity and it is on the endangered species list.” Rothschild quipped."... --------------------------------------------

(We end up back where we started, with only 2 classes, the monarchy and the peasants. This is not a theory, ICLEI is an actual well funded UN group. ed.)

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Reference: 9/22/09, "Senate rejects measure to turn California water on," Washington Times, Amanda Carpenter

"The Delta smelt ruling impacts "the water supply for more than half of the state of California" according to California Judge Wanger. (12/15/10, para. 6).

Two GOP congressmen begged legislators to turn the water back on in California (9/22/09), but Senator Feinstein likened giving water back to suffering farmers to the US being attacked at Pearl Harbor."...

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