How did California degenerate so quickly from the Golden State into the state with the highest percentage of poor people? A recent study offers clues.
The United Way study – “Struggling to Get By” – delves well beyond even the recent Census Bureau analysis, which, by factoring in housing costs, already established California as the state with the highest percentage of poor people, at roughly one in four. United Way expanded this percentage by calculating what the charitable organization called the “Real Cost Budget,” which includes not only rent but also costs for child care, medical, health and transportation.
By United Way’s calculation, roughly one in three Californians can barely make ends meet, despite the state’s relatively generous transfer payments, subsidies and general assistance.
Importing poor people from the Third World and paying them with other people’s money to stay poor has had a predictable effect on the overall standard of living.
The high taxes and malicious regulation that characterize Democrat rule have certainly taken a toll on the California economy. But it is the demographic transformation that put Democrats in power that is driving poverty.
As goes California, so will go the nation, straight down the rat hole into Third World misery — unless of course the fundamental transformation is stopped in time. But that would require putting an immediate end to large-scale Third World immigration. Under either party, our corrupt and treasonous government has no intention of saving the country.
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