Comments on: Why does CA unemployment remain so high?

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 14:35:36 +0000

Yup, global warming (in summer)/climate change (in winter) is an EXISTENTIAL THREAT to mankind, according to the United States Government, and that’s why the United States Government is expediting the approvals for a terminal in Vancouver Washington to SHIP COAL TO CHINA. REPEAT: SHIP COAL TO CHINA.

Agencies that are fast tracking this plan, which will help FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING, include the ever-fanatical US EPA…Goldman Sachs is ‘helping’ with the debt-based financing of this much needed project.

By: Angus

Angus — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:51:52 +0000

Just completed a big remodeling project inside my home. Did not get any permits, expect that the town officials will be eaten at their desks by California’s needy when EBT cards don t work. Think that will happen before I sell house so permits will be obsolete. Purchase price will be in bullets and blankets. Guess your could say we are going to a brass based currency.

By: Queeg

Queeg — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 05:55:14 +0000

Poodle

Are you a long distance Uber driver?

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 01:30:39 +0000

Also don’t forget that CA makes refineries use a special winter blend of gas that drives prices sky high. Drive out to Yuma and gas is 30 cents a gallon cheaper than in Imperial Valley….and 50 cents cheaper than San Diego. LA has cheaper gas than San Diego.

By: ricky65

ricky65 — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 22:11:53 +0000

All of that is true of course. And don’t forget, Jan 1 California consumers get to pay an undetermined additional tax on their gasoline due to the inclusion of refined petroleum products in the State carbon tax auction extortion scheme.
It is thought to be10-15 cents per gallon initially which would pick state gas consumers pockets of nearly $3 billion dollars the first year. And it could climb to DOLLARS per gallon in the coming years as the Sac Mob cuts down the number of credits available every year to force up the price on the so-called ‘market’. Does anyone think that will not adversely affect consumer spending in the coming years? Well maybe if you’re a government bureaucrat ignoramus who denies cause and effect and actually believes that large tax increases will not affect consumer spending.
I nearly choked on my bagel laughing this morning when the Sac Commie Bee article called it this government fleecing a ‘market based’ approach to fighting carbon emissions. Maybe that flies in their juvenile editors board room but only a socialist state would declare government control of the supply of goods is a ‘market’ solution.

So we”ll see if this causes any consumer backlash. I doubt it. The drop in oil prices will moderate the outrage. But if the Middle East blows up again and gas goes back above $4 bucks it could be an issue given that we already pay the highest gas taxes in the country.
The people in this state are so ignorant its hard to see any large scale protest of this ripoff. When nearly half of our citizens are tax grazers dependent on government they might be reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them. Shockingly, the recent election polls showed nearly 40% of our disinterested dolt population did not even realize Jerky Brown was running for governor again.
This will put state government awash in extorted cash at the expense of hard pressed middle class and working folks who have to drive to their jobs. Ol’Jerky is counting on the cash for his Brown Streak train and twin tunnel fantasies. And state D-Rat party hacks are counting on this unlimited slush fund to pass around goodies to their favorite patronage groups and green crony capitalist bankrollers.
SoI suspect the fleecing by a kleptocratic state government will continue until either the flock of shorn sheep die of exposure or high tail it to greene, less hostile pastures as has been the case for the last couple decades.
Back to the point: If you’re looking for the reasons for persistent high unemployment in this state, the above is a good example of why that is.

By: Ronald Stein

Ronald Stein — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:06:46 +0000

California’s business climate with over regulations on businesses, over taxation and uncontrollable fees are contributing to the middle class becoming an endangered species as the inequality has deepened. The results are that consumers are paying for over regulations to businesses. Those behind the over regulations, over taxation, and uncontrollable “fees” on businesses are mostly the highly compensated, and most with sweet defined retirement benefit packages waiting for them upon retirement, i.e., those that CAN afford the higher costs that trickle down to all citizens for products and services. AB32 was implemented in 2006 when CA contributed a minuscule 1% to the worlds GHG’s. Now 8 years later we have higher costs for energy and higher costs for every industry that relies on energy and the by-products from oil and we still have that 1% minuscule contribution to the World’s GHG’s. The primary thing AB32 has done is to generate hundreds of millions of dollars of income to the government at the expense of the financially challenged. Case in point, in the past 40 years, California’s population has nearly doubled to its present 38 million, but the air quality has gotten better, not worse.