by Bob Walsh
Yesterday was the last day for Gavin Newsom to act on bills put before him by the legislature.
He signed a bill that prohibits K-12 schools from starting class before 0800. That might be fine, but don't you think that is the sort of thing that local school boards should determine? That is kind of what they are there for.
He also vetoed a $2 billion housing bill. I guess he is OK with 10s of thousands of people living homeless on the street and six people living in a one-bedroom apartment because even middle class incomes can not afford to live in many places in CA. A significant number of the people living in the central valley, Stockton and Modesto, commute every day into the Bay Area because they can't afford to actually live there. The house around the corner from my dad's place in San Leandro, not quite 1,000 square feet, two bedroom and one bath on a 5,000 sq ft lot with a one car garage, just went for $610,000 last week.
The formerly great state of California is becoming unlivable for the middle class unless you inherited a house. Pretty soon there will be nobody here but tech billionaires, homeless people, illegal aliens and persons on parole or probation, who are likely also to be homeless. The middle class is the real tax base, no matter what Pocahontas Warren and Crazy Bernie tell you. If you kill them off or drive them out, your whole state turns into Detroit. There are whole square blocks of Detroit with no inhabited houses and wildlife incursion is becoming an issue within the city.
You might not get the government you deserve, but you sure as shit get the government you tolerate.
2 comments:
There in a new middle class neighborhood being constructed near me. A new brick 3 br, 2 bath, and 2 car garage middle class home runs $200,000. I walked through an open house. It was nice.
My bad, the school hours thing does not affect elementary schools.
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