Failing Dreams: California Faces Its Own Great Depression
16th October 2011
The flapping sound you hear is the chickens coming home to roots. They have no one to blame but themselves, for voting into office the people who are destroying their economy and their lives.
“The people at the bottom, young people trying to start their career, the underclass, people in the service and agricultural industries, they have got an insurmountable problem in attaining the California dream. A young person leaving college and wanting to start a family in California today goes to Texas.”
… where they will be welcome, if they are willing to work and willing to keep their noses out of other people’s business, i.e. leave their California ways behind.
The stark divide between the haves and have-nots is growing. Beverly Hills 90210, with its $50 million mansions, was named the fifth most expensive zip code in America this week by Forbes magazine. But two of the state’s other cities, Fresno and San Bernardino, are among America’s ten poorest population centres of over 200,000 people.
That’s what socialism does. The nomenklatura live in luxury, and everbody else starves. That’s why rich people in California are all liberal Demorats — if you aren’t a member of the pack, you’re prey.
Perhaps the starkest example of how far some people have fallen in the economic downturn is a man in his 50s, who once earned a six figure salary as a producer on television studio sitcoms and small budget Hollywood movies.
A few years ago he lived in a three-bedroom house with two cars in the drive and occasionally mixed with A-list stars. Now, he lives with his wife and two children in one room at the Union Rescue Mission. He calls it the shelter’s “penthouse suite.”
That’s what happens when you’ve got a niche skill. When the niche goes away, so do you. If he were a plumber or an electrician — or a computer programmer — he’d probably still have a job.