Buchanan: California, Here We Come!

bobbyw24 · 06-26-2009, 04:52 AM

http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-califor...e-we-come-1585

California, Here We Come!

By Patrick J. Buchanan

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — In just a few weeks time, California hits the wall.

And Americans should take a good, long look at the fiscal and social wreck of the Golden Land, because California is at a place to which all of America is heading.

In May, when five fund-raising proposals were put on the ballot, Gov. Schwarzenegger pleaded with the overtaxed Californians not to make their state “the poster child for dysfunction.”

As The Economist writes, “On May 18th, they did exactly that.”

Arnold went to the White House for U.S. loan guarantees for new state bonds. But with the president’s approval rating wilting because of a belief he is spending too much, the Obama-ites slammed the door.

In Sacramento, a Republican blocking force is resisting any new tax revenue. And with the state under a constitutional mandate to balance its budget, yet facing a $24 billion deficit this July, a chainsaw is about to be taken to state government.

Some 38,000 of 168,000 state prisoners may be released. As Barack Obama is pushing universal health insurance, California will cut Medi-Cal for the poor. Education will be slashed, resulting in a shortened school year, thousands of laid-off teachers, school closings and an end to summer programs in a system that has plummeted from the nation’s best to one of its worst, as measured by dropout rates and academic achievement.

The 10 campuses of the University of California face cuts that may result in 50,000 fewer students and 5,000 fewer teachers.

What makes her fiscal crisis relevant to us all is not only that California is our most populous state, with one in eight Americans living there, but California has a gross domestic product larger than Canada’s.

Moreover, the demography of California today is the demography of America tomorrow, just as the social and fiscal policies of California in the last decade mirror those of the U.S. government today.

One-third of all U.S. wage-earners today have been amnestied from paying U.S. income taxes, as the top 1 percent haul fully 40 percent of that huge load. So, too, in California, the well-to-do and the wealthy are hammered, which is why many have quietly closed their businesses, packed and gone back over the mountains whence their fathers came.

Under George W. Bush and Obama, the U.S. government has undertaken huge new responsibilities: No Child Left Behind, Medicare prescription drug benefits, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the takeovers of banks and auto companies, bailouts without end and national health insurance.

California, too, spent lavishly in the fat years and issued bonds when state revenues did not cover the costs, bringing its once-sterling credit rating down to the nation’s lowest. So, too, U.S. Treasury bonds, T-bills and the American dollar are now increasingly suspect.

Demographically, California is where America will be in 2040.

White folks, who are leaving California as they did in the millions in the 1990s, are below half the population. Hispanics, their numbers surging due to legal and illegal immigration, are well over a third of the population. The African-American share of California’s population is also falling, as the Asian share is rising, again from immigration.

Los Angeles, which is what most large American cities will look like, is the most diverse city on earth. Has diversity been a strength?

In the prisons and jails, and among the scores of thousands in street gangs and the underclass, a black-brown civil war is underway.

In October 2006, the Financial Times reported the findings of the famed author of “Bowling Alone” on what diversity has wrought:

“A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of ethnic diversity has been revealed in research by Harvard University’s Robert Putnam, one of the world’s most influential political scientists. His research shows that the more diverse a community is, the less likely its inhabitants are to trust anyone — from their next-door neighbor to the mayor.”

“In the presence of diversity, we hunker down,” said Putnam. “We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we don’t trust people who do look like us.”

“Professor Putnam,” said the Financial Times, “found trust was lowest in Los Angeles, ‘the most diverse human habitation in human history.’”

Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan carried California nine times. But the state is now a fiefdom of liberalism. John McCain’s share of the vote was smaller than Barry Goldwater’s. California today believes in Big Government, open borders, diversity, multiculturalism and the politics of compassion. But what liberalism has wrought in California, its native-born are fleeing.

Still, where California is at, America is headed.

Californians who are running away from the communities and towns in which they were raised have Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, Utah and Nevada to head to. But when all of America arrives at where California is at today, where do the Americans run to?

ShareThis

Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Economy, George Bush

Sean · 06-26-2009, 08:43 AM

Prop 187
Prop 209

The voters tried to put a halt on some of it but in the end the politicians and courts teamed up to smash some of the better efforts. Not too long ago California was more conservative than Texas is today. A few more years and most states and this country will be in the same situation.

Minarchy4Sale · 06-26-2009, 09:20 AM

this is the kind of talk that gets Buchanan labelled as a racist. He isnt. He is a culturalist. ....

And he is right.

Lord Xar · 06-26-2009, 11:40 AM

100% true. America will not be america in a few short decades. To rally against it, you are labeled a racist. To point of the truths, you are a racist. To quietly let it happen, you are a proper zombie. We are totally phukked.
With the importation of so many non-americans, the United States has slowly and purposefully lost its history. To disconnect this Soveriegn nation from its past is the most assured way to alter its future. A nation of imported cultures and peoples, and the acceptance of everything non-american has brought about a complete detachment from what it is to "be american".

BenIsForRon · 06-26-2009, 11:42 AM

Let me get this straight, California's native born are white?

I think this guy would beg to differ.

Lord Xar · 06-26-2009, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BenisforRon

Let me get this straight, California's native born are white?

I think this guy would beg to differ.

Should I post a picture of a caveman and say the same thing? Don't miss the point of the OP with your want to derail the thread.

silverhawks · 06-26-2009, 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Xar

100% true. America will not be america in a few short decades. To rally against it, you are labeled a racist. To point of the truths, you are a racist. To quietly let it happen, you are a proper zombie. We are totally phukked.
With the importation of so many non-americans, the United States has slowly and purposefully lost its history. To disconnect this Soveriegn nation from its past is the most assured way to alter its future. A nation of imported cultures and peoples, and the acceptance of everything non-american has brought about a complete detachment from what it is to "be american".

I would actually fear the opposite happening - that the neo-cons encourage America to lose its tolerance of other cultures altogether. We cannot lose sight of the fact that BOTH parties are fascists and nationalists: they share an identical, globalist ideology. They don't care which one of them brings this kind of social transformation about...and fascist regimes require an ENEMY to rally the nation against.

It's becoming obvious to me that the Democratic leadership wants to make true conservatives the enemy for society to fear. With the neo-cons, they are pushing the fear of Mexicans and Muslims. Once these objectives have been completed, that will broaden to include anyone else who dares to call themselves different, or dissent, or even question.

As American history has proved - not only blacks were reduced to slavery...white people are as oppressed by government today as anyone else. It isn't a question of race - it's a question of bank balance.

I lived in LA for four years, saw exactly what Buchanan describes...but I also saw extremely hard working Mexicans and Asians who came to America to do exactly that. The problem is not immigration; it is good for a country as long as it is controlled. The current problems in CA have been primarily created by government pandering to a "minority' that they created through not providing adequate immigration controls, and not promoting integration into American culture once people arrive here. They threw open the doors to anyone who would vote for them, and allowed them to create micro-nations inside US borders, as long as those votes keep coming.

erowe1 · 06-26-2009, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Xar

Should I post a picture of a caveman and say the same thing? Don't miss the point of the OP with your want to derail the thread.

Really, what IS the point of the OP? Buchanan is throwing all kinds of non sequiturs into this column as he usually does when he gets into issues involving his miconception that there are such things as multiple different races of people which exist on any level other than as a mental construct. I like Buchanan in a lot of ways, and I would easily vote for him for President over any establishment Republican, if for no other reason than that he avoids both the welfarism and the warfarism that most politicians in both parties embrace (and add to that his opposition to global treaties, and more recently the war on drugs and the federal reserve). But there's plenty you can say about the problems of California, and the presence of too much melanin in its residents' skin, and the fact that their immediate ancestors didn't live in Europe, aren't among them.

Lord Xar · 06-26-2009, 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by silverhawks

I would actually fear the opposite happening - that the neo-cons encourage America to lose its tolerance of other cultures altogether. We cannot lose sight of the fact that BOTH parties are fascists and nationalists: they share an identical, globalist ideology. They don't care which one of them brings this kind of social transformation about...and fascist regimes require an ENEMY to rally the nation against.

It's becoming obvious to me that the Democratic leadership wants to make true conservatives the enemy for society to fear. With the neo-cons, they are pushing the fear of Mexicans and Muslims. Once these objectives have been completed, that will broaden to include anyone else who dares to call themselves different, or dissent, or even question.

As American history has proved - not only blacks were reduced to slavery...white people are as oppressed by government today as anyone else. It isn't a question of race - it's a question of bank balance.

I lived in LA for four years, saw exactly what Buchanan describes...but I also saw extremely hard working Mexicans and Asians who came to America to do exactly that. The problem is not immigration; it is good for a country as long as it is controlled. The current problems in CA have been primarily created by government pandering to a "minority' that they created through not providing adequate immigration controls, and not promoting integration into American culture once people arrive here. They threw open the doors to anyone who would vote for them, and allowed them to create micro-nations inside US borders, as long as those votes keep coming.

I agree. My issue isn't with the "illegals etc.. color of skin" per se' but rather the govt/politics that encouraged and subsidized it. There is a scheme afoot that encompasses alot of these issues .. open borders, dumbing down of the school systems, welfare dependency et.. that all work in collusion.

torchbearer · 06-26-2009, 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Xar

Should I post a picture of a caveman and say the same thing? Don't miss the point of the OP with your want to derail the thread.

The natives Americans where the first to immigrate to the land mass known as California.

06-26-2009, 04:52 AM	#1
bobbyw24 Herr Auskunft Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 9,175	Buchanan: California, Here We Come! http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-califor...e-we-come-1585 California, Here We Come! By Patrick J. Buchanan PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — In just a few weeks time, California hits the wall. And Americans should take a good, long look at the fiscal and social wreck of the Golden Land, because California is at a place to which all of America is heading. In May, when five fund-raising proposals were put on the ballot, Gov. Schwarzenegger pleaded with the overtaxed Californians not to make their state “the poster child for dysfunction.” As The Economist writes, “On May 18th, they did exactly that.” Arnold went to the White House for U.S. loan guarantees for new state bonds. But with the president’s approval rating wilting because of a belief he is spending too much, the Obama-ites slammed the door. In Sacramento, a Republican blocking force is resisting any new tax revenue. And with the state under a constitutional mandate to balance its budget, yet facing a $24 billion deficit this July, a chainsaw is about to be taken to state government. Some 38,000 of 168,000 state prisoners may be released. As Barack Obama is pushing universal health insurance, California will cut Medi-Cal for the poor. Education will be slashed, resulting in a shortened school year, thousands of laid-off teachers, school closings and an end to summer programs in a system that has plummeted from the nation’s best to one of its worst, as measured by dropout rates and academic achievement. The 10 campuses of the University of California face cuts that may result in 50,000 fewer students and 5,000 fewer teachers. What makes her fiscal crisis relevant to us all is not only that California is our most populous state, with one in eight Americans living there, but California has a gross domestic product larger than Canada’s. Moreover, the demography of California today is the demography of America tomorrow, just as the social and fiscal policies of California in the last decade mirror those of the U.S. government today. One-third of all U.S. wage-earners today have been amnestied from paying U.S. income taxes, as the top 1 percent haul fully 40 percent of that huge load. So, too, in California, the well-to-do and the wealthy are hammered, which is why many have quietly closed their businesses, packed and gone back over the mountains whence their fathers came. Under George W. Bush and Obama, the U.S. government has undertaken huge new responsibilities: No Child Left Behind, Medicare prescription drug benefits, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the takeovers of banks and auto companies, bailouts without end and national health insurance. California, too, spent lavishly in the fat years and issued bonds when state revenues did not cover the costs, bringing its once-sterling credit rating down to the nation’s lowest. So, too, U.S. Treasury bonds, T-bills and the American dollar are now increasingly suspect. Demographically, California is where America will be in 2040. White folks, who are leaving California as they did in the millions in the 1990s, are below half the population. Hispanics, their numbers surging due to legal and illegal immigration, are well over a third of the population. The African-American share of California’s population is also falling, as the Asian share is rising, again from immigration. Los Angeles, which is what most large American cities will look like, is the most diverse city on earth. Has diversity been a strength? In the prisons and jails, and among the scores of thousands in street gangs and the underclass, a black-brown civil war is underway. In October 2006, the Financial Times reported the findings of the famed author of “Bowling Alone” on what diversity has wrought: “A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of ethnic diversity has been revealed in research by Harvard University’s Robert Putnam, one of the world’s most influential political scientists. His research shows that the more diverse a community is, the less likely its inhabitants are to trust anyone — from their next-door neighbor to the mayor.” “In the presence of diversity, we hunker down,” said Putnam. “We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we don’t trust people who do look like us.” “Professor Putnam,” said the Financial Times, “found trust was lowest in Los Angeles, ‘the most diverse human habitation in human history.’” Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan carried California nine times. But the state is now a fiefdom of liberalism. John McCain’s share of the vote was smaller than Barry Goldwater’s. California today believes in Big Government, open borders, diversity, multiculturalism and the politics of compassion. But what liberalism has wrought in California, its native-born are fleeing. Still, where California is at, America is headed. Californians who are running away from the communities and towns in which they were raised have Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, Utah and Nevada to head to. But when all of America arrives at where California is at today, where do the Americans run to? ShareThis Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Economy, George Bush __________________ Follow me on Twitter for news about Ron Paul, The Fed, & American Economy and Polity AbolishTheFed

06-26-2009, 11:40 AM	#4
Lord Xar Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Los Angeles, Ca. Posts: 5,734	100% true. America will not be america in a few short decades. To rally against it, you are labeled a racist. To point of the truths, you are a racist. To quietly let it happen, you are a proper zombie. We are totally phukked. With the importation of so many non-americans, the United States has slowly and purposefully lost its history. To disconnect this Soveriegn nation from its past is the most assured way to alter its future. A nation of imported cultures and peoples, and the acceptance of everything non-american has brought about a complete detachment from what it is to "be american". Last edited by Lord Xar; 06-26-2009 at 11:42 AM.

06-26-2009, 11:42 AM	#5
BenIsForRon Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: NC Posts: 2,981	Let me get this straight, California's native born are white? I think this guy would beg to differ. __________________ if modern agriculture continues to follow the path it's on now, it's finished. The food-growing situation may seem to be in good shape today, but that's just an illusion based on the current availability of petroleum fuels. All the wheat, corn, and other crops that are produced on big American farms may be alive and growing, but they're not products of real nature or real agriculture. They're manufactured rather than grown. The earth isn't producing those things.. petroleum is! -Masanobu Fukuoka

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

06-26-2009, 08:43 AM	#2
Sean Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 457	Prop 187 Prop 209 The voters tried to put a halt on some of it but in the end the politicians and courts teamed up to smash some of the better efforts. Not too long ago California was more conservative than Texas is today. A few more years and most states and this country will be in the same situation.

06-26-2009, 09:20 AM	#3
Minarchy4Sale Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 718	this is the kind of talk that gets Buchanan labelled as a racist. He isnt. He is a culturalist. .... And he is right.