David: Good point. Then the teachers should tell their unions to pursue policies that reduce the cost of housing, such as ending the California Coastal Commission.

What? We’re not the worst? Of course we’re the worst @ 23.8%. I never said we weren’t the worst. How’d you come up with that?

My point was that the CB’s numbers indicate that the media’s lamebrain theory that the ‘high cost of living’ is largely responsible for the high poverty rates is flawed. It’s not so much ‘high cost of living’. It’s saturating certain states with illegal indigents that’s causing the poverty rates to climb.

The reason Texas does not have our poverty rate is because Texas is not as strong a magnet for illegal immigration as California. Texas doesn’t give them TX driver’s licenses or defy Federal law by refusing to turn them over to the Feds for deportation like California. No wonder more illegals come to California and our poverty rates climb! Duh!

The cart is in China being cut up for scrap!

By the way, the government just approved China chicken coming into United States for your tostadas.

You really think they can screw things up any more? Wow, what a pessimist! (sarc)

OK, OK, you’ve made your point, we’re not the worst. But being among the worst is still a great cause for concern, anguish.

I see pigs on the runway, and their tails are spinning.

Governor Clown has been making noises lately about his concern over the states “inequality” problem. My guess is that the solution will be higher taxes on the rich and middle class (to fund transfer payments/subsidies to the poor) and counter productive nonsense like raising the minimum wage 25%.

I guarantee you that the Dems will only make the problem worse. But hey, they will screw it up with the best of intentions and that’s what really counts right?