Destroying the economic hopes of low income people in order to stoke the green self esteem of entitled Boomers is not progressive politics.
The destruction of California isn’t a victimless crime. Millions of low income California residents are trapped in decaying cities where, thanks in large part to narcissistic green unicorn chasers, the manufacturing base has withered away.
If there’s no one to pick up your garbage what do you do? Bury it in the back yard?
If there’s no one to fix your car do you take a bus? Oops, California no longer has bus drivers. They can’t afford to live there.
If your roof leaks do you fix it yourself? Good luck with that.
The point is that a city, state or country needs people of all skill levels to exist. When only the college grads and the rich can afford to live in an area it’ll soon die.
Anyone interested in what’s going on in California should read this from Anthony Watts.
California Air Resources Board cap and trade program circumvents state open meeting laws with a Moonbeam assist
Posted on July 14, 2012 by Anthony Watts
I once served as an elected official on my local school board. During orientation and virtually every annual CSBA meeting after that, along with numerous public meetings and letters to the editor where people constantly reminded us of the Brown Act, it loomed large as the most important law that we had to follow.
We were constantly reminded that if we did not follow the letter of the law and provide full and open access to all meetings (the exception being employee management) we would be guilty of breaking the open meeting law and subject to severe penalties. If our local school board in our small town ever tried to hold a closed-door meeting without the knowledge of the public, not only we would we be excoriated in the press and public discourse, but we would also have people filing for our election recall.
So, it was with shock and surprise that I learned today that the California Air Resources Board declared the method by which they could circumvent the public meeting laws. Even more shocking they put it in writing and, got the California State legislature to pass it as a law as a rider on a totally unrelated bill of legislation, and Governor Brown signed it into law on June 27th, 2012.
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