Comments on: Is Adelanto the next CA city to go belly up? https://calwatchdog.com/2013/07/03/is-adelanto-the-next-ca-city-to-go-belly-up/ Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:25:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Icantquit https://calwatchdog.com/2013/07/03/is-adelanto-the-next-ca-city-to-go-belly-up/#comment-91956 Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:25:15 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=45214#comment-91956 Greedy government workers? Where do you get that from? They aren’t getting paid that much. No raises for years, less benefits, extremely high case/work loads, these people that work in government aren’t the enemy. Maybe you can classify certain high up people in government that way but 99% of them are just people like me and you trying to make a living, barely doing so and struggling just as hard as the rest of us.

I am always amazed at how so many people hate government workers and I’m not sure why? Is it because you couldn’t get hired there? Don’t have the education they required or what? The city couldn’t run without these people. You wouldn’t have any of the amenities you have without them. Think real hard about what life would be like without them – don’t mess around but seriously think about it. They are the spokes in the wheel that keep things rolling. Of course, there are always bad people and this is true as well for government employees but not as a general rule.

]]> By: Tough Love https://calwatchdog.com/2013/07/03/is-adelanto-the-next-ca-city-to-go-belly-up/#comment-13016 Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:36:38 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=45214#comment-13016 Quoting …. “The biggest economic generator in Adelanto has been government, not industry or commerce. Ironically, if the city merely dis-incorporated, letting the county take over all services, its budget problems might disappear altogether. But this is not going to happen when municipal employment is a source of six-figure jobs for a few people in a community without much economic mobility.”

THAT paragraph says it all …. greedy Gov’t workers (i.e., “I got mine … screw you”)

]]> By: Queeg https://calwatchdog.com/2013/07/03/is-adelanto-the-next-ca-city-to-go-belly-up/#comment-13015 Fri, 05 Jul 2013 04:05:55 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=45214#comment-13015 Service jobs are not career jobs…..they are jobs created by modern slavers and exploitive globalists.

Less and less manufacturing….more and more latte baristas…lower productivity….welcome falling personal income growth and standard of living.

Raise taxes in this enviro and destroy the health care delivery systems…..the worst is still to come…..

]]> By: Hondo https://calwatchdog.com/2013/07/03/is-adelanto-the-next-ca-city-to-go-belly-up/#comment-13014 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 16:30:03 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=45214#comment-13014 Socialism fails when you run out of other peoples money.
Hondo….

]]> By: stolson https://calwatchdog.com/2013/07/03/is-adelanto-the-next-ca-city-to-go-belly-up/#comment-13013 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:55:40 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=45214#comment-13013 moving out of CA is not due to gloom or doom, but job necessity and retirees trying to make it, straight up. There is no sky is falling mentality–just survival. If there is a major job scarcity — own up.

]]> By: Ulysses Uhaul https://calwatchdog.com/2013/07/03/is-adelanto-the-next-ca-city-to-go-belly-up/#comment-13012 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:40:48 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=45214#comment-13012 Queeg is having a cool one after a record day moving gloomers….a smile on his face reading all the moans from Carp, Poodle, The RAGWUS haters, Teddy Fans and Carpetbaggers Target and Hondo.

Adelanto is a dust allergy nightmare… high desert doomer oasis…..

Cannot get a decent Slurpee or corn dog at Poodle’s truck stop…..

]]> By: Rex the Wonderdog! https://calwatchdog.com/2013/07/03/is-adelanto-the-next-ca-city-to-go-belly-up/#comment-13011 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:54:22 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=45214#comment-13011 LOL@ Teddy’s home town 🙂

]]> By: Steele, Ted, When only the very best will do! https://calwatchdog.com/2013/07/03/is-adelanto-the-next-ca-city-to-go-belly-up/#comment-13010 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:52:04 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=45214#comment-13010 LOL the supeme irony here is tghat Adelanto is where most of the doomers out here live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Wayne Lusvardi https://calwatchdog.com/2013/07/03/is-adelanto-the-next-ca-city-to-go-belly-up/#comment-13009 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 18:45:16 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=45214#comment-13009 More interesting is that redevelopment and affordable housing left nothing for Adelanto to sustain itself.

Adelanto is not alone in the High Desert with these sort of problems. Apple Valley, Hesperia, and Victorville are all desperately trying to find an economic base after losing George Air Base. Victorville tried the more entrepreneurial approach but got caught in the crash of money markets with the Mortgage Meltdown. Loma Linda might find an economic base with its medical school and hospital under Obamacare.

Let’s hope Adelanto finds a pathway to self sufficiency other than by having to continue to raise taxes.

]]> By: stolson https://calwatchdog.com/2013/07/03/is-adelanto-the-next-ca-city-to-go-belly-up/#comment-13008 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:44:11 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=45214#comment-13008 Wow. There is an underbelly there of gangs, welfare for lifers, etc. There are good people there, of course, but foreclosures were high–Chinese came in and bought up at pennies on the dollar–property taxes plunged. A tax base is needed for essential services. Interesting to see what transpires soon.

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