In California, Facts Are Preferable To Rumors

As someone who’s lived in California for more than 40 years, I never cease to be amazed at how aggressively conservatives hate this state–a deep obsession that goes far past Donald Trump’s revulsion for the state.

Republicans tend to represent California as a dystopia that has come about from decades of socialist policies and general mismanagement.

Whenever I come across this garbage, I wonder to myself: Have these people ever been here?

From this: California attracts more capital, creates more wealth, and generates more jobs with better pay than any other state in the union.  

The state budget folks report: Despite the ongoing global pandemic and its disparate health and economic impacts on Californians, revenues are growing at historic rates and we estimate the state will have a $31 billion surplus (resources in excess of current law commitments) to allocate in 2022‑23.

The modest three bedroom home out of which 2GreenEnergy is run is worth just under $1 million, about four times the national average.  How does that jibe with the idea that California is dominated by violence and poverty?

The answer?  It doesn’t.  Housing prices are high because everybody and his dog wants to live here.