that the party governing our country's largest state for decades has no connection with the state of its economy.
ChicKenShit really is an utterly shameless stooge.
…the fourth largest economy IN THE WORLD, not in the United States. Only the US, China, and Germany have better economies than California.
Yet this is what some TER righties think of California:
willy - 8/23/24, 7:20:42 AM:
“… people are shitting all over the streets…”
“… businesses are closing because they legalized theft…”
“… there’s homeless meth heads all over the place.. “
CDL - 12/26/24, 10:58:37 AM:
“This is why California is a shit-hole now. Because of the Democrat super-majority in the legislature for the past 20 years, taxes are higher than average, large cities are turning into slums and the climate-change grift is sucking up money that could be better-spent on other projects…”
I can forgive willy - he lives 3,000 miles away and his post was equal parts jealousy and hyperbole.
But CDL lives in California and supposedly has a 60+ employee business in California. For someone to have a business in California and not have his finger on the pulse of the California economy tells me he’s bullshitting about owning a business. He’s really just a wage slave sitting in his cubicle all day posting on TER and grousing about how others are getting rich and he’s just a broke ass bitch.
for two reasons, 1) it's a reflection of the population being so large, and 2) Most businesses take food stamps from poor people, so all of that Federal welfare money is pouring into California businesses and is being counted as part of the "economy." It's smoke and mirrors.
Californians earning $200,000+ a year are leaving California in record numbers since Newsom took office. Most are going to Texas and Florida, both Red states. At the rate that these two states are improving their own economies, it's foreseeable that they will both surpass California, even with fewer people. There's a local real estate guy who runs a commercial saying that his company has named Gavin Newsom the Realtor of the Year, because Newsom has made more people sell their houses and move out of state than the next 10 realtors combined. There is no suit from Newsom that this is false advertising, because it's true.
I live in a very nice part of OC, so I will be the first to admit that life is pretty good in some counties in California, but all I have to do is drive into downtown LA where there are people everywhere pissing and shitting on the streets to see the real condition of California. Just drive down Alameda from 1st street to Olympic Blvd. if you want to people doing their toilet business in full view of the public or take a deep breath in any of the off-site parking garages surrounding Staples Center and you'll choke on the smell of stale urine and feces. I'm guessing that you live in the Fairfax area which is still mostly white. Am I right? If you want to see "homeless central" just park your car within two blocks in any direction from the homeless mission on 5th St. and take a leisurely walk in this area. If you don't agree it's a shithole just a few blocks from LA City Hall, then I will know you never went there and are just lying your ass off.
…CDL is being his usual ANTI-SEMITIC self by “guessing that (I) live in the Fairfax area…”
The Fairfax area USED TO BE the area where Jews lived in L.A. About THIRTY YEARS AGO, many Jews moved to the San Fernando Valley.
Today they’re moving further west in the Valley to Calabasas, Hidden Hills and Agoura.
Not only is CDL an ANTI-SEMITE, he’s also a fucking moron.
You made a reference to where I live and where you live a few years ago. Thanks for taking the bait . . . .again. That's see what kind of tap dance you do to walk this back. When you have no substantive argument, you go to the Liberal playbook and cry, "racism." What a dumb fuck.
The coCKSucker never fails to criticize me for posting a post from years ago but doesn’t say shit when CDL links a thread from February, 2023.
And if the coCKSucker had bothered to read CDL’s you would have seen CDL’s post was a LIE. But the coCKSucker was too busy sucking CDL’s cock by White Knighting for him.
You rarely link but when you did here, your link fucked you in the ass.
You said: “I’m guessing you live in the Fairfax area.” Why were you “guessing” that I live in the Fairfax area. You didn’t know, but because I am Jewish, and you are an ANTI-SEMITE, you stereotyped me as living in the Fairfax area.
After I called you an ANTI-SEMITE, you FRANTICALLY searched for anything to try to “prove” I claim to live in the Fairfax area because you were only guessing.
You hastily searched the K girl board for the subject, “Fairfax”, and the author, BigPapasan. There was ONLY ONE POST that mentioned “Fairfax” by Bigpapasan. You latched onto it and posted the link. If you even so much as skimmed the link, you would see that OC did not refer to where you live, and Fairfax did not refer to where I live.
In that thread, OC and Fairfax referred to geographic areas where K girls work. The thread you linked was about where K girl Sera was working. The OP said: “I know Sera has been in OC for a few months now.”
CENZO1 wrote:
“As for Sera, despite rumors, she was going to retire, she appears to be back in FAIRFAX, Virginia at least for a little while.”
ROFLMAO!! You were hoist by your own petard, you fucking moron!
What say you, CDL? Are you going to “stand corrected” which means you are admitting you are an ANTI-SEMITE or are you going to run away like a little bitch?
What say you, CKS175? Do you see the truth now or are you going to bury your head in the sand, taking it out only long enough to bury your head on CDL’s cock?
Remaining silent will brand you an ANTI-SEMITE too.
CDL is a fucking LIAR!
CDL is a FUCKING MORON!
CDL is an ANTI-SEMITE!
CDL is running away from his anti-Semitic post like the gutless coward he is. Keep running, you ANTI-SEMITE. Run, little bitch!
100% about the higher income earners leaving the state. Dont forget about retirees who are looking for more tax friendly states.
What CA hasn't realized yet is much of the recent laws passed that haven't really taken hold yet. Mandatory min wages, new paid work leave laws, weak laws on retail theft (which I believe some might have been reversed?), etc. All that will hamper business. Then with the advancement of AI.
What I am getting at is this.... Right now you have only seen a few "stores close down" because of min wage. Those stores could have been closed down because of proximity of other stores....ie: target on every corner type thing. So they were "expendable". But what will happen is you will start to see even more kiosk ordering at fast foods, more self check outs, more "app" ordering, less people more AI doing the check out/taking orders. ESPECIALLY as our society is pushing towards cashless. Look how everything is going that way. I was at a place that I had to put cash into a machine to get a fucking card to go and pay for food and beverages at different stands. All because they dont take cash.
So to end that long winded paragraph above.... those fucking laws really haven't taken ahold of yet. CA hasn't seen the full extent if those will be good or bad for the work force/economy. But as a business owner myself. Adding $5 an hour for wages, having more paid time off, adding salary increases work comp insurance costs, etc. All of this decreases the money I would take home. So a few things need to happen..... increase what I charge, automate, fire employees, or close up shop. I mean why should I take over a 15-20% loss in income? I am not even including inflation, normal increases in property taxes, or natural increases benefits/raises. What I was talking about was FORCED by law.
Would anyone else take that type of loss?
Now to expound on the Min wage BS. Fed Min $7.25... now CA is a making you pay $15 an hour. As a company you were already paying your workers $15 an hour. What do you think those workers will now want to get paid? They will want to be paid $7.75 more... so $22.75 an hour. You know why.... because they are worth that much more that "minimum wage". Correct? That would be their argument..... or they would at least want to be paid more than $15 an hour because they are better than min wage. See the fucking issue.
Also with the minimum wage doubling the state/cities automatically doubled work comp insurance for all business. Work comp insurance is calculated off of salary/wages paid. So you double the work comp insurance when they doubled the minimum for all business owners. That an expense NOBODY thought of.
…than it receives from the federal govt.
Contrast that to Texas which is the largest ‘welfare’ state, receiving $71Billion MORE from the federal govt. than they send to the federal govt.
from you on why this is. That's because the money Texas received was to compensate them for managing the walk-ins that Biden was inviting to cross the border illegally. More lying by omission and deflection from BigP, our liar-in-chief.
Here is something that liberals like to throw in the face with the TX and CA debate... with the federal money.
In that figure is the tax credits the oil industry gets. So with the cattle, farming, oil industrial complex of Texas and mentioning about immigration and funding for protection of the largest border. That all goes into those figures of FEDERAL FUNDING.
Again CA does produce or "give" to the Fed. But again.... they dont have to defend as much of a border, have another huge industrial complex that gets tax breaks figured into the equation (oil/gas).
So numbers can be skewed.
They are moving their HQ to Tennessee.
After 77 years, In-n-Out HQ will say goodbye to its home state and set up shop in Franklin
Some Stats just coming out:
Job Losses and Employment Impact
Since the implementation of the $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in September 2023, California has reportedly lost nearly 18,000 fast food jobs. A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research highlights that fast food employment in California has decreased by 2.64%, while employment in the same sector has grown nationally. Additionally, another study from the Berkeley Research Group found that fast food restaurants lost approximately 10,700 jobs between June 2023 and June 2024, marking the largest job decline outside of the 2009 recession and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Per: epionline.org
Price Increases
The wage hike has also resulted in a 14.5% increase in food prices at local restaurants, as businesses attempt to offset the higher labor costs. Franchise owners have reported raising menu prices significantly, with some items seeing increases of over 8%. This has led to concerns among consumers, who are now ordering fewer items due to the higher costs.
Per: institutodelibertadeconomica.org
Shift Towards Automation
In response to the increased wage, many fast food establishments are accelerating their use of automation and artificial intelligence. This includes implementing ordering kiosks and AI systems, which further reduces the availability of jobs for human workers.
Per: national law review
So what this has done is put a strain on fast food industry, restaurant industry, food service industry, etc. All that hire middle to low income people. It is having the "reverse" benefits it was intended to gain. Putting stress on middle to upper income owners of smaller operations/franchisee's and managers of these places when or if they will shut down or not.
Like I stated prior.... we have about 2-3 years to see the real ramifications of this especially with how fast AI is advancing or IF artificial intelligence will or can take over these jobs.
I know in another thread it posted that In-Out is staying in CA... great. It is a west coast staple. But it will be interesting if they change how they operate or not.