Long term Democrat/progressive/socialist control has brought California to bankruptcy. Unions unholy alliance with Democrats, environmental wackos, and acclaimed victimhood of every group has brought the utopian state of California to ruin. Higher costs, higher taxes, ever increasing tyranny of regulations and thought police have made the state dysfunctional. The first to flee were businesses. Now people are seeing the results of their welfare state.
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Fleeing Liberal Utopia – Failed State of California a Vision of Obama’s America
California is Destroying Itself – U.S. is Next
The result of this fiscal insanity is that “In 2010, at least 204 companies said goodbye to the state, exactly four times more than fled in 2009. The exodus surged to more than 280 companies in 2011, when they left the state at a clip of 5.4 companies per week.” This just leaves joblessness and economic stagnation in its wake.
Public Unions Continue Killing California Cities
The California hit parade keeps on rolling as yet Another California city scrambles to avoid bankruptcy.
Zombified Cities Roundup: Detroit Becomes Dumping Ground for the Dead; Financial Urgency in Miami; Oakland Pension Time Bomb; How Pensions Crashed Stockton and San Bernardino
[F]our cities in recent news that are among the walking dead. One is even a dumping ground for the dead.
Business Exodus from California Accelerates
Decades of demonizing “greedy” profit-making enterprises has paid off for California in a lower standard of living, crowded prisons, decaying schools, potholed streets, and an approaching welfare majority.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) – best money can buy
Who has funded the ascent of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi? The top ten individual and PAC donors. The top 7 PAC’s are unions of course.
California At The Breaking Point
California’s public-employee retirement funds are $500 billion in the hole. It’s news that unions and their candidate, Jerry Brown, don’t want to hear. From IBD Editorials Pensions: A new Stanford study says California’s public-employee retirement funds are $500 billion in the hole. It’s news that unions and their candidate, Jerry Brown, don’t want to hear. The government union money machine has had a good run. But increasingly there are signs that it is heading for a crackup with the taxpaying […]
Public sector unions clamor for more borrowing to fund their extravagant pensions and benefits bankrupting cities and states in the process
Shortfalls in states’ public-sector retiree pension and benefits plans, which reached $1 trillion in 2008 according to the Pew Charitable Trusts Center on the States, could bankrupt states absent reform.
The Cartel: The True Nature of Teacher Unions
The problem of continual academic mediocrity that plagues America’s public school system can be laid at the door of union monopolies. That’s the message of The Cartel, a new documentary that will show this Sunday at 12 pm at the Washington, D.C. Independent Film Festival.