[Vision2020] Who Killed California?

[Tim Lohrmann]

Visionaries,
Even if he's not your cup of tea politically, you
gotta admit that Pat tells it like it is about "Free"
trade and Immigration.
    TL
    

Who Killed California?
> 
> By Patrick J. Buchanan
> 
> With Gov. Gray Davis facing recall, a budget $38
> billion in deficit, and a bond rating dropped three
notches by Standard & Poor's to near junk-bond
> status, the lowest of all 50 states, the Golden
> State is no more.
> 
> Who killed the goose that laid the golden eggs?
> 
> Certainly, Davis, who misled voters about the
> gravity of his budget crisis in 2002, and won
re-election by demonizing his GOP rivals, deserves his
20
> percent approval rating. But Gray Davis did not kill
> California.
> 
> The United States government did. For what killed
> California as the golden land was massive and
unrestricted immigration from the Third World, an
> unrepelled invasion from Mexico, and a failure to
> protect the U.S. manufacturing base and the wages of
America's workers.
> 
> During and after World War II, California became a
> bastion of our defense, aerospace, auto and TV
industries. Hundreds of thousands were hired to become
> the highest-paid manufacturing workers on earth,
> giving California the world's highest standard of
living. The average California wage once stood at 130
> percent of the average U.S. wage.
> 
> In the 1970s and 1980s, however, Japan, a free rider
> on America's defense, began to engage in predatory
trade, attacking and killing, one by one, U.S.
industries and capturing U.S. markets with subsidized
exports.
> 
> California suffered first. Our TV industry was wiped
> out. Our auto industry was reeling when Ronald
Reagan stepped in to impose quotas on Japanese cars.
> Reagan also intervened to save the semiconductor
> industry, Big Steel and Harley-Davidson. Unlike
today's free-trade fanatics, Ronald Reagan put America
> first.
> 
> But it was under Bush-Clinton-Bush that California
> was irrevocably sacrificed to the gods of the Global
Economy.
> 
> During Bush I's term, millions of Mexicans began to
> flee north to seek jobs and take advantage of the
health care, welfare and free education American
> citizens provided for their people. For one-third of
> the illegals, California became the destination of
choice.
> 
> What the U.S. government should have done was
> obvious, and was demanded by Americans: Enforce our
immigration laws, halt the invasion, restrict
> immigration from the Third World. But America's
> politicians - out of fear of being brande xenophobic
and to curry favor with Big Business, which
> benefits from an endless supply of low-wage labor -
did almost nothing to protect America.
> 
> Californians tried to defend their state. As
> illegals poured in by the hundreds of thousands
yearly, they passed Proposition 187, denying social
> welfare benefits to illegal aliens who had broken
> the law and broken into the United States.
> 
> The open-borders coalition, repudiated and routed,
> ran to a federal judge, who annulled the voters'
victory. Davis then refused to appeal the overturning
> of 187 to the Supreme Court. Hispanic voters
> rewarded him in 2002, and California state and local
budgets continued to hemorrhage.
> 
> By the 1990s, an exodus of taxpayers had begun. Fed
> up with being fleeced to subsidize illegal aliens,
Californians began leaving for Nevada, Idaho,
> Arizona and Colorado. Two million native-born
> Californians left the state in
> the 1990s, as immigrants, legal and illegal, sent
> poverty rates soaring in Los Angeles, Riverside, San
Bernardino and Orange counties.
> 
> This, then, is what killed California:
> 
> First, open borders. By failing to enforce our
> immigration laws, America now hosts 31 million legal
immigrants and their children and 10 million
> illegals, most of them net tax consumers. California
> got the lion's share.
> 
> Second, global free trade and the trade deficits it
> produced, now running at an annual rate of $562
billion in May. This has killed millions of
> manufacturing jobs, as thousands of companies closed
> factories here and shifted plants to Mexico, Asia
and China.
> 
> The Third Worldization of California is now far
> advanced. Yet those responsible, Bush Republicans as
well as Clinton Democrats, still cannot
> see what they have done to our country.
> 
> But what is happening in California is not confined
> to California. It is happening across America.
Unless we elect a president who will enforce our
> immigration laws and defend our borders, unless we
> find a Congress that will jettison the free-trade
madness that is denuding America of her manufacturing,
> what has happened to California will happen here.
> 
> President Bush appears oblivious to it all - but
> then, so did his father
> before him.
>

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