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The big news was that Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a self-branded podcast and began talking to conservative influencers and talk show hosts to stay relevant into a possible presidential candidacy for 2028.
Meanwhile, California is struggling to rebuild after the LA wildfires and the state is falling deeper into financial chaos.
California will need to borrow $3.44 billion to close a budget gap in the state’s Medicaid program, Newsom administration officials told lawmakers Wednesday in a letter obtained by POLITICO.
That’s the maximum amount California can borrow, and will only be enough to cover bills for Medi-Cal — the state’s Medicaid program — through the end of the month, Department of Finance spokesperson H.D. Palmer separately told POLITICO.
The budget pressure will bring fresh scrutiny to the state’s coverage of illegal aliens, which is costing more than first budgeted.
Originally, the state estimated it would cost around $3 billion per year to insure that population. But one year after the program has been fully implemented, it’s turning out to be more expensive than anticipated.
No kidding.
Pouring more money into welfare for a low-income illegal population is always going to be more expensive.
This is the kind of thing that a state governor ought to be on top of instead of promoting his podcast.
I don’t see much of anything you do as helping We The CITIZEN People of California Governor Hair Gel.
What you do get away with doing so far is just getting people homeless or killed.
Yes, Governor Greasehead uses his podcast to interview conservatives so he can try to “prove” the California government performs better than Florida’s and those of all other “red” states. Good luck to Newscum coming up with any sophistry convincing enough to trick anybody. His advisors are just as dumb as he is. As if his podcast is going to last for the next four years.
I don’t see the financial logic in giving state money to illegal immigrants. That never made sense to me, even when it was first proposed. The state government is in reality bankrupt, was only kept afloat by money from the Biden Administration. How are they going to stay afloat under the current administration?
Hopefully and righteously, they won’t. Maybe is time the big BQ comes round and wakes a few million legal residents up… best thing to happen is a million man march on the Gabbling Nuisance’s home.
Governor Gruesome and his cabal should not be financed, but set adrift in the Pacific as afloat people.
Yes, the D-Bag outreach to illegal aliens is just one of many subjects Newscum lies about on his podcast. His first two guests have been Charlie Kirk and Michael Savage. It’s obvious that he’s choosing conservative guests in an attempt to mislead MAGA America that he’s a moderate. It won’t work and I seriously doubt his show will last the three years necessary for him to run for President.
I’m sure Kirk noticed what he’s up to but I don’t think Savage did.
Who knows? Maybe he’ll invite Danny Boy on his show but I think that would be a mistake on his part. I notice Danny Boy is soft spoken but rhetorically brutal.
What he can’t and will never discuss is all the companies that have fled California. Look no further than just across the California-Nevada border. 30 years ago, there use to be nothing but open unpopulated country between the border and Henderson, NV. Not anymore.
Henderson itself use to be a small Nevada town just before you hit the airport. Now Henderson is a large growing suburb that will soon be if not already larger than the city of Las Vegas itself. What’s more, hundreds of small to mid-size companies from all over California have relocated to Henderson.
Nevada has no state income tax or corporate tax. California is just the opposite and can’t compete with Nevada for new businesses. The only knock against Nevada is that the state is mostly a desert and the hordes of scorpions in the late spring and early summer months,
Yes, Nevada is mostly desert. But Reno in the northern part of Nevada is quite nice.
Lake Tahoe is very nice, too, and beautiful.
Henderson Nevada? I stayed in a casino resort there that was great. It had a restaurant in the “food court” that looked like a cave and even had a fake stream. All the restaurants there had good food and like the casino the lighting in the court was subdued, especially in the “cave.” The Johnny Rocket’s there was great. It had burgers in different sizes from sliders to huge ones and you could get up to three or four patties on the ones bigger than sliders. The Johnny Rockets here in downtown San Jose closed down during the Scamdemic and never came back, like so many other businesses, mostly locally owned. That JR’s sucked, though. Customers were required to buy entire dinners like it was a real restaurant instead of choosing burgers and sides.
I had to drive from Henderson northwest to a city way out in the open desert called “Pahrump” (A real name) once. That desert was so desolate and the trip so long I thought I might’ve been lost and called a coworker who’d driven there earlier that day. He said I wasn’t lost but to watch my speed because he’d been pulled over by the highway patrol and gotten a ticket because he’d thought he might be lost and was speeding because he was impatient. I saw the HP hiding in a good place of concealment when I passed them. That was what the desert was like there back in 2010.
Anyway, Nevada is great even though most of its desert land is ugly. The Eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevadas are beautiful and a person can live there for a fraction of the price it costs just over the border in California. I’d planned to retire there by now but my plans have been delayed because of the four disastrous years of national sabotage by the Alzheimer Joe regime, just like the plans of so many other Americans. With no state income tax or corporate tax and the fourth lowest property tax rate at an “effective” .5% it’s hard to beat living there. And housing is so cheap it’s practically free compared to California. I want another “cabin” like the one I lost to my ex-wife. A loft, one bedroom, one bath and a fireplace with a kitchen and living room are more than enough for me.
California is going to be lost for a long time, longer than I’ll be alive. I’m just young enough I may live long enough to experience it sink all the way into Hell if I stay. Guys who’re already comfortably retired will be just fine and the corrupt, elitist scumbags who’ve ruined it, like Grease head Newscum, can ride high with the silver spoons up their butts but like you noted, mass flight from the state is very real.
Don’t you prefer those seasonal scorpions to the all year street creatures of California?
I do. I don’t know about Nevada cities but San Jose California is crawling with street creatures.
In 2023, Los Angelas Port had 462K jobs tied to it. The largest private employers in America include #1 – Walmart at 1.5 million; #2 – McDonalds – 420K. All these jobs are paying state income taxes. Then there’s Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Given so much abundance, it would take a lot to sink the state. The left was up to the challenge.
Hollywood is quietly shifting to Las Vegas. If you make around $200k/year, you still cannot afford to by a home in the San Jose/Sunnyvale area where the average home price is over $1.5 million. The average 2 bedroom apartment rental is over 3,ooo/month and rising.
Most young engineers I know avoid working for companies in Silicon Valley because of the high cost of living. Myself and other retired engineers have advised them to consider working for tech companies in states like,Arizona, Texas, North Carolina and elsewhere. Anyplace but California where the cost of everything rises asymptotically with no inflection point in sight.
California is even in the process of shutting down oil refineries and/or taxing existing ones out of business to force state residents into electric cars. As an engineer, I would never own an electric vehicle for a number of technical reasons that are little known to the average person.
I used to own several electric cars. They were slot cars when I was five.
I had a Buck Rogers battery operated raygun.
I used to love those slot cars. That was my favorite thing for years. Not that I was any good at driving them 🙂
They used to have businesses with huge slot car tracks users could race on. Maybe they still do 🙂
Founders wanted the states to collect money for people who aren’t citizens.
Remember, Little Fidel just asked Trump for $40 billion to rebuild Los Angeles after the terrible fires. If Trump gives Little Fidel any money, how much of that money will be spent on illegals rather than on rebuilding LA??? And, since Little Fidel just bought a second mansion for $9 million, how much of the federal aid money might “accidently” slip into his pocket before it is used for the citizens of California??? (it was reported awhile back that Little Fidel wasn’t paying his Cal. property taxes on his first mansion, so we already know he can’t be trusted with money.)
Maybe “Little Fidel” would use the money to replace his bust in City Hall with a hundred foot tall monument to his ruinous reign?
As a California resident, I can tell you with certainty that the first thing that would happen if that money is given to California is the state legislature would give themselves a pay raise followed by a pay raise for state employees.
Then the leftovers will be given to local governments who will give themselves pay raises and what’s left after that will go to the NGOs will get their cut of whatever money is left. What’s left (pennies on the dollar) will go towards whatever the money was originally intended for. Like free box lunches (baloney or spam sandwich, a small bag of Doritos and an apple) and bottled water for the homeless. I know for a fact that this happens because wife does volunteer work for an NGO.
I’ve followed California political machinations for 30+ years and that’s the way things work in this sh*thole state.
I’ve seen those bagged bum lunches and they’re just like you described, except they usually have a bag of plain Lays® potato chips because they’re much cheaper than Doritos.® They’re D-Bag™ approved.
Sounds like making California into Haiti. Insert coin here.
Hypocrisy – Relying on Trump’s illegal immigration position to save them from their own views (not just medicaid, but housing, energy, and other issues also)… while keeping the views that are sinking them.
And $3.44 billion means that if Newscum could sponge up more, he would. Those illegal aliens have lots of brats who need state welfare.
The First Rat is jumping ship.
This is the acceptable cost for all those minimally informed motor voters aka illegals in CA. But the sheer arrogance to ask for more money? Who in their right mind would lend this narcissistic goon even a penny?
One look at the state’s cooked books should be the beginning and the end
Maybe Tom Homan should get approval and audit Medicaid for all of their names, and addresses and ICE can begin removing them back to Mexico and the other southern country locales.
Gavin Newsom needs to be tested for drugs.
Considering Gov. Gruesome’s green policies, his hair should be tested for oil slicks. If in violation, his hair should have to switch to electric.