Laugh of the day - Leavin' California

California's government sucks. By 2035, Gavin Newsom plans to keep the residents from being able to purchase new autos that run on gas.

IF he runs for president, this will not work in his favor.

 

Yes, in a big city. That's called an 'incidental fact' not a 'political fact'. A political fact would be the fact that when Trump took office, hate crimes are up 20% and America is still paying that price.

Yes, facts all of which you use to twist into a narrative that doesn't provide the full context.

There are more urban areas per capita in CA than any other state, so that stat, though accurate, doesn't paint the picture you are trying to paint.

Your insinuation doesn't reflect a greater truth, that correlation often isn't causation.

See, the fact that homeless people tend to live in urban areas reflects the fact that they find it easier to survive in urban areas.

That California has more urban areas is the result of that fact that SoCal's weather, plus it's coastline, is an attractive place to live, which is
why developers invested there, which attracts a larger, more urban population.

Politics is not the reason for homelessness, relying too much on free market economics and then the cut backs in social/mental health programs (the result of neoliberal thinking and policies) is the reason. But getting rid of neoliberalism in America is well nigh impossible, republicans have made it a veritable institution across America. There is little any mayor in any City or any governor can do about it. It's also the reason why there are homeless in all big cities, blue or red.

Of course, right wingers will tout the benefits of market economics, except when it comes to the problems that market economics creates, there they blame that on democrats. California has had as many republican governors as Democrat governors, and the homeless didn't get leave the state because of Ronald Reagan, and, in fact, the homeless population shot up under Reagan, he pulled the rug out from under the budgets of the mental hospitals, and they were tossed out into the streets. Of course, when a democrat expresses this, then republicans will ASSUME democrats want to go in the entire opposite direction, i.e., totalitarian communism, which is a ****ing lie, they never speak the truth, that we want a balanced economy, a mixed economy, a centrist economy with an equilibrium of the public/private forces.

As for Reagan when he was Governor....this will reveal clearly what neoliberalism does. Reagan lit the fuse of neoliberalism's firecracker, and when he become president, America still hasn't totally reversed the neoliberal ship of state, though Biden is trying.

https://shelterforce.org/2004/05/01/reagans-legacy-homelessness-in-america/

Reagan not only failed to recognize his own HUD Secretary, he failed to deal with the growing corruption scandal at the agency that resulted in the indictment and conviction of top Reagan administration officials for illegally targeting housing subsidies to politically connected developers. Fortunately for Reagan, the “HUD Scandal” wasn’t uncovered until he’d left office.

Reagan also presided over the dramatic deregulation of the nation’s savings and loan industry allowing S&Ls to end their reliance on home mortgages and engage in an orgy of commercial real estate speculation. The result was widespread corruption, mismanagement and the collapse of hundreds of thrift institutions that ultimately led to a taxpayer bailout that cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

The 1980s saw pervasive racial discrimination by banks, real estate agents and landlords, unmonitored by the Reagan administration. Community groups uncovered blatant redlining by banks using federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act information. But Reagan’s HUD and justice departments failed to prosecute or sanction banks that violated the Community Reinvestment Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in lending. During that time, of the 40,000 applications from banks requesting permission to expand their operations, Reagan’s bank regulators denied only eight of them on grounds of violating CRA regulations.

By the end of Reagan’s term in office federal assistance to local governments was cut 60 percent. Reagan eliminated general revenue sharing to cities, slashed funding for public service jobs and job training, almost dismantled federally funded legal services for the poor, cut the anti-poverty Community Development Block Grant program and reduced funds for public transit. The only “urban” program that survived the cuts was federal aid for highways—which primarily benefited suburbs, not cities.

These cutbacks had a disastrous effect on cities with high levels of poverty and limited property tax bases, many of which depended on federal aid. In 1980 federal dollars accounted for 22 percent of big city budgets. By the end of Reagan’s second term, federal aid was only 6 percent.

The consequences were devastating to urban schools and libraries, municipal hospitals and clinics, and sanitation, police and fire departments – many of which had to shut their doors.

Reagan is lauded as “the great communicator,” but he sometimes used his rhetorical skills to stigmatize the poor. During his stump speeches while dutifully promising to roll back welfare, Reagan often told the story of a so-called “welfare queen” in Chicago who drove a Cadillac and had ripped off $150,000 from the government using 80 aliases, 30 addresses, a dozen social security cards and four fictional dead husbands. Journalists searched for this “welfare cheat” in the hopes of interviewing her and discovered that she didn’t exist.

This study is interesting:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4364434/
Reagan administration officials, who clung to a historically rooted ideological belief that homelessness resulted mainly from individual character flaws. The administration's 1981 attack on the federal government's social research programs, its aggressive denial of federal responsibility for responding to homelessness, and its move to cut HUD funds by 70% between 1980 and 1987 together forestalled the development of a coordinated homelessness research program that examined housing, employment, and social services along with mental and behavioral health aspects

The above study reveals that homelessness had primarily two sources, cut backs in social and mental health programs and problems associated with free market economics.

 

You're trying to blame REGAN NOW????? Now that is REALLY hilarious.

You're too much. Reagan was governor 47 years ago and president 33 years ago.......................but REAGAN!!!!