7 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

  1. Tough call. Walled IT communities versus the open society that they claim to want.

    I’ll take popcorn futures, and watch from a safe distance.

  2. I know ONE THING for certain … When all of Silicon Valley, and every other major corporation with HQ in San Franfreako have had enough and leave the Bay Area … my property values will crater. At least a 50% drop. I’m literally facing a photo finish … which comes first? My retirement and relocation? or Bidinh’s economic implosion? Or SanFranfeako/Killathon Valley disassembly?

  3. Sell-a-con also works. But I fear they are leaving CA for TX, specifically Austin. When rent-seekers finally leave town, they need a ride to the next gig.

  4. I was taught that if government wants more of something, subsidize it. If government wants less of something, tax it.

    So our (US) government taxes productive people and subsidizes homeless people, and then wonders why the number of homeless people keeps increasing.

    Governments exist only because they are subsidized by taxes. That’s why we keep getting more government. You want more and better roads? You vote for tax levies to pay for them. So, you (hopefully) get more and better roads, but you also get more government.

    Starve the beast.

  5. Imagine that.
    You want more useless and clueless?
    Promote and protect the useless and clueless.
    The “Do-Gooders” have spread like a cancer,enjoying social status and financial success…
    While helping no one except themselves.
    “The urge to help humanity,is always a disguise for the desire to rule over other men.”
    Or some such.
    CS Lewis also made fine comment on the relentless nature of such parasites.

    I sense a longterm plan to cull the population of California.
    Beautiful place,with too many people..so sayth the entitled ones..
    If left alone the Seaboard cities might become as crowded as Singapore,Tokyo..
    Intolerably crowding out the special ones..
    And what has been done there seems to have a shape,a plan..which excludes the American Dream..Or exaggerates it beyond reason.
    Feudal Lords,from Old Money,New Tech and Political Theft,grasping greater and greater power,the tax paying citizen made smaller and weaker..
    Constitutional Rights denied by Rules and Regulation.
    Lawfare used routinely to squash the resisters..
    California is a lesson for us all.
    One cities such as Vancouver,Toronto and Calgary imitate,as modern and trendy..

    Law and rule of law.
    First; Laws only apply within the boundaries of the people who agree to them.
    So you need a nation with defined borders.
    Second; Rule of law does not permit the cheating and favouritism to be blatant and celebrated.
    For all these necessities of civil society require the consent of the governed.

    Welfare ,the free lunch,the not my fault mentality,where no one is personally responsible for their actions…
    As Progressive as rust.
    Progressive’s are a cancer rotting civil society.
    The attempt to buy off the “Have Nots” by stealing all the “Have a Little’s” have got..has resulted in the obvious results.
    Many more “Have Not’s”.

    Just as “Work Place Safety” has made us all less safe and much crazier,with a whole new Bureau of Rules and Regulations middlemen,so has the Do-Gooders made homelessness more common,more ugly and much more profitable..For themselves.
    Ghouls and Carrion Eaters feeding upon those made helpless ,clueless and valueless.

    Seems some of the castouts/rejects are extremely dangerous..
    Who woulda thunk?

  6. I wound be unsurprised to find data that shows that as the number and funding for ngo’s/ government departments rises, so do numbers of homeless folks. Govt workers need clients.

    Vancouver is full of middle-aged stolen grocery cart drivers and tenters, who love dope and invade decent parks and former decent streets, ruining them for taxpayers.

    Most of them are on the taxpayers dole, so sirens run on Wefare Days. Cost for cleaning up their tent pig pens: 1 million plus in one park.

    Nothing has changed in the three decades I have lived here

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