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California. A land of dreams. Where crazy junkies roam the night screaming at imaginary spaceships. Where medieval diseases can be found side-by-side with cutting-edge marijuana apps. And when actors go on strike, taxpayers have to subsidize them. It’s a real dream factory of endless social justice horrors.
Striking workers in California would get to draw unemployment benefits under a proposal Democrats are preparing to introduce in the final stretch of the legislative session.
This is coincidentally happening around the time that a strike by Hollywood actors and screenwriters appears to be stretching out forever with both sides calling each other’s bluff.
The executives have gone on vacation hoping to starve out their opponents. And their opponents have gone to California Democrats to get them to force the state’s shrinking middle class to subsidize their strike.
It’s backed by the powerful California Labor Federation, whose leader, former state Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, tried to pass similar legislation in 2019.
“This is embarrassing for California that we don’t have unemployment insurance for striking workers,” Gonzalez said in an interview, noting that New York and New Jersey offer benefits for striking workers in certain circumstances.
Gonzalez’s ban on freelance workers helped destroy the state’s trucking industry causing shortages and sending food prices sky-high.
Now she wants actual workers to subsidize her Hollywood pals when they decide they don’t want to pose for the camera.
Legislators are already juggling several other proposals backed by mighty labor interests this session, including a bill related to fast food workers and a push to ensure a $25 minimum wage for health care workers.
Sure, why not. Health care is way too cheap already. Let’s send the price of a medical visit and health insurance through the roof.
And then watch as more people flee the state because they can’t afford to eat, get health care or pay for actors to go on strike.
The party logo is copulating rainbow unicorns.
Ah, just film everything in foreign countries. Foreigners need jobs too, right? Just kidding but…..
A lot of American productions are already filmed in Canada, actually, and European and Australian movies are better then ever. The European crime dramas are better than ours and the Australian actors and actresses are better than ours. I don’t like to admit it but it’s true.
Keep in mind that California is supposed to be the blueprint on how every other state will be governed in the future, forced from the federal level.
Two persons going down Hollywood Bolavard in a two person Rainbow Unicorn Costume
Are they non-binary?
While most folks couldn’t care less what happens to striking actors and the few Californian middle class left there that are suicidal enough to stay and be pummeled out of existence, I hope people will take the opportunity to study this microcosm of socialist society that is California and see for themselves the abject failure that Karl Marx plagued upon the world.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 “For even when we were with you, we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”
The Newsom mindset. The last thing the country needs.
Well, America anyway. Newscum’s mindset works great for Mexico.
Isn’t their union or guild supposed to pay them when they go on strike? Isn’t that a function of their dues? Do California actors and writers even pay into unemployment?
I don’t know about California, but in Georgia, unemployment is a racket. You only draw on what you paid in for the last four years, at their puny rate, and after four years, that money goes to the state. What a steal, I mean deal. /s
Whether it is Newsom or Gonzalez or the cast of idiots in the State’s legislature, it is psychopathic thinking in which actions don’t have consequences all the way down.
So why do we have to put up with those bunch of overpaid actors to subsidize their stupid strike we just will quit watching their movies period and see them lose a bundle
FOR REAL?
Greenfield appears to be unaware of the huge revenue the entertainment biz pulls into CA.
It has nothing to do with the middle class.
The ‘Biz” operates like the rest of the economy; the 1% get 99% of the loot, the workers get scraps.
In a multi-billion dollar economy, only a handful of people can make a living.
Uh, the entertainment SPENDS huge revenue, not earns it.
Good point about the shrinking middle class. How is one supposed to get into the middle class? Traditionally it was mainly via a small business. The diabolical effect of the alliance between big unions and the Democrats is killing small businesses. One of the best things Trump did was getting rid of regulations meant to strangle small businesses. But since the new administration took over, small businesses are getting strangled again, particularly in California.
I once asked my Dad why he didn’t go to work for a big company. He said he liked to be his own boss 🙂
Traditionally it was traditional
Being your own boss is the best. Succeed or fail, it’s all on you. Even if you work for a big company, being a manager is much better than than being an employee who has to answer to a boss who is usually corrupt and incompetent.
Like Mike Rowe advises, start your own small business. Unless you’re retired, of course.
They already did so why make a fuss about it?
I can still remember when we looked to September when all the new TV shows come on then the Screen Actors Guide went on a stupid Strike and hat when many of us were becoming disillusioned with the whole bunch of them all and now i just have DVD,s of the TV shows from the 60’s and 70’s in TV’s Golden Years
Actors hardly even work when they’re working. On his podcast, Alec Baldwin (before his “controversy”) interviewed a musician who’d acted in a couple movies in the 70s and asked why he hadn’t acted since. The musician said, “I have too much energy and couldn’t stand sitting around for the camera angles and lighting to be set up.”
Baldwin said, “I know what you mean. I factored that, for a full day of filming, I’m actually acting in front of the camera for about 45 minutes.”