California Governor Jerry Brown gavehis last--thank god --State of the STate address.
I can't believe that this state has suffered under his terrible leadership all these years. What is the matter with California voters, that they continue to send these hateful liberal Democrats to Sacramento, where they continue to rape, pillage, and demonize the citizenry while robbing them blind.
The state goverment has given more benefits to illegal aliens and to third-world dependents than to California's citizenry, the men and women who pay the bills in this state.
The Bill of Rights mean nothing to California progressives, who think that they are above the law. Democrats have announced publically that they will pass legislation, even if every court in the land deems such legislation unconstitutional.
Whatever talk about economic recovery which has gained ground in the state of California, it is nothing compared to the epic losses of major manufacturing, building, investment, financial resources, and the innovation economy which makes any state thrive.
Crime is up, good jobs are down, housing is beyond costly. Whatever jobs remain are not enough to live and thrive. Most adults are either living with their parents or sharing a room with another adult. Whatever happened to upward mobility?
But for Governor Moonbeam, everything is mainstream wonderful:
Dear Arthur,
I hope one of your talking points on Jerry Brown‘s last State of the State Address is that he’s the "luckiest" Governor in recent history.
Jerry Brown has dealt with nothing but a growing national economy since he was elected. The national economic recovery began in 2009, and he was elected in 2010. He’s had eight years of economic growth as Governor.
Arnold had to deal with the worldwide financial crisis; Davis had to deal with the dotcom collapse and was Governor during 911.
Pete Wilson became Governor right as the country was going into recession.
So yes, he’s been able to surf off the national financial economic wake.
But beyond that:
The violent crime rate is up 15.7% over the last two years because Jerry Brown lead the effort to let the bad guys out of jail and prison.
60% of Californians are thinking of moving because the cost of housing and living is too great.
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There’s no evidence the test scores of students have risen significantly, if at all. In spite of the fact that he’s pumped tens of billions of dollars of additional money into education.
His High-Speed Rail from LA to San Francisco isn’t high speed, and it doesn’t go from LA to San Francisco. It was cutting edge technology when he was Governor in the 1970's, but it’s outdated technology today. And cost overruns continue to plague his premier infrastructure plan.
His overreach on environmental policy requires utilities in California to buy more solar energy than they need, and has forced California utilities to pay utilities in other states to take the surplus power off of our hands. So ratepayers get to pay for energy they don’t need and then have to pay utilities in other states to take the power, which benefits residents of Arizona.
Jerry Brown could’ve taken on public employee unions and really fix the pension system, but he’s been timid and only tinkered around it at the edges.
And just as only Nixon could go to China, Jerry Brown could’ve taken on the California Environmental Quality Act and really fixed it. But he’s been absent from that fight too.
The leadership of Governor Jerry Brown has been an epic failure ... except in one sense: the destruction and degradation defining our state has all been part of a large, determined plan to promte the needs of coastal elites at the expense of everyone else in the state. There are really two states: the uber-blue coastline, and the red interior, an interior where poor people are getting poorer, where access to good schools and quality jobs has fallen on hard times, getting worse by the day.
California needs better, must do better.
We need a Republican Party, however, which will fight for this better, not go along with the corrupt Deep State of Sacramento and the bureaucratic hustle which enriches consultants and well-connected contractors at the expense of everyone else.
The legacy of Jerry Brown is a legacy which we must flush down as fast as we can.
Please, Californians, we need a real change. We need to Make California Great Again!
