What is going on everybody? My name is Thor welcome back to the world according to
Briggs and let's talk about the Golden State California Thank You Thor
California has been taking a lot of flack for some time now about the way
the state is running and to be honest they deserve 90% of it at least the
people running the states and local governments deserve it California has
two classes of residents currently the wealthy and the people watching youtube
channels like this one trying to find a better place no I love California
at least I love my old life I had in California before I moved to Oregon I
left it because it wasn't worth the price anymore it's not that I couldn't
afford the standard middle-class California lifestyle I could I just feel
I wasn't getting what I was paying for in a way it's sort of like this you
could make it a couple million dollars a year are you going to buy an SUV for a
hundred thousand dollars when you can get the same SUV for thirty thousand
dollars someplace else no if you do it's called being stupid with your finances
and that's what it kind of got to the point for me I felt I was being stupid
with my finances for living in California now before we get rolling on
this one a little disclaimer California my birth state has some great things
about it it adds more to the US economy then probably five or ten states
combined you know depends on which states throw in their entertainment is
unmatched in the United States maybe in the world I say maybe because you never
know what's going on in Liberia they have a civil war and that's exciting
beaches sunsets great food but you also have number-10 license for every
occasion the state of California requires a license for 198 different
occupations the most in the nation the national average is about 96 the next
closest is 122 now I understand things like a license
to practice medicine I get it construction get it pilot absolutely
lawyer absolutely insurance salesman yeah maybe
real estate definitely carry and concealed permit yeah I understand that
one too but in California you need a license or certification for everything
hot dog vendor yep yoga instructor yep tanning salon worker yep gardener better
get a certification you want to fill balloons with helium get a certification
if you want to clean someone's swimming pool you better be certified if they
ever find a good enough explanation on why breastfeeding needs a license they
will and pregnant women will be doing 20-hour training courses and
paying their $200 and seventy-five for recertification if you like your
breastfeeding license lapse between kids they are ridiculous number nine tickets
the state of California issues some of the most expensive traffic tickets in
the nation and all the cities and counties have followed suit with their
own premium style tickets speeding and premiums when you factor in DMV fees and
insurance premiums and tickets and all that stuff California is the most
expensive state to own a car now last time I mentioned this guy said I own a
2018 Jeep in Arizona and you're trying to tell me that if someone owns like a
Honda Accord in California it's more expensive then he followed up with come
on man we're not that dumb my response was not dude it's just you but yes with
all the fees regulations and tickets it sucks to drive in California
number eight state employee pay the average pay for a California state
worker has risen by a hundred percent from 2005 to 2012 and a 120 percent from
2012 to 2015 now that is great if you're one of those state employees but it's
terrible news for the residents they have to pay their salaries and their
pensions through taxes and whatnot now this isn't a knock on the employee so
you have to make that kind of money to live in this state and I don't think in
the history of man has a middle-class worker ever turned down more money from
their job now there's a lot that goes into this subject that I don't have time
for in this you know 10-15 minute video but I did read an article a couple years
back about how the reason these salaries are so high or at least how it got
started is because during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s the state
negotiated with the unions during the time that California had more money
coming in than they knew what to do with really well that bubble burst which
meant less income from taxes but they still had their commitments now things
have happened since then but that was the beginning of the situation they're
in according to this article now like I said tons either go into really broad
brushing it but that's one thing that has to do with it's kind of strange
number 7 childhood poverty since 2007 the number of children living in poverty
in the state of California has steadily increased at the rate the poverty is
growing in California they could theoretically pass Mississippi and
poverty by 2025 you know you're in bad shape when you're gaining ground on
Mississippi in sucking this stat is just as bad as
59% of all students attending California public schools now qualify for free or
reduced-price school lunches to qualify the family's income must be around 30%
lower than the poverty line in the 1990s 10% of the students qualified now almost
60% number-6 regulations of the Yazoo the amount of regulations in the state
of California is a thing of legend and has been forever the amount of
departments that have these regulations is so bad people have to hire
professionals to help them navigate the insane amount of bureaucracy this just
makes it impossible to operate a business in California that's like a
fact years ago Mayor Richard Riordan who was a banker to businessman before
becoming the mayor said that he had to go to four agencies and wait over a
hundred and twenty days to get a palm-tree he purchased planted in front
of his business prior to becoming the Marik now the funny thing is we have
palm trees everywhere in Los Angeles it's not like he was trying to introduce
a non-native species or something like that palm trees are everywhere took 120
days to get it put in there to this date Reardon remains the most recent
Republican to serve as the mayor of Los Angeles the Milken Institute did a study
and found the operating costs of a business in California are most 25
percent higher than the national average state of California is the worst when it
comes to the small business failure rate and that's from 2010 to 2016 it was 69
percent higher than the national average during that time they also have four out
of five cities in the category of top 5 worst places for a small business in the
United States that's crazy number 5 the traffic California has
three cities in the top five for the worst traffic in the country now
everyone complains about traffic nobody likes traffic but it's just become a way
of life California takes it to a new level it's not an uncommon thing for a
resident in Los Angeles San Francisco or San Jose to spend an hour commuting to
and from work now we reach weights to extra hours odd to each day its total of
10 hours a week stuck in traffic what's really sick about this that there's a
ton of people that spin much longer than that hour the traffic is the number four
most cited reason for leaving California according to the mover study now this is
where we get some dude that tells us that it ain't that bad
he only spends 30 minutes each way gratulations I didn't make this video
with you specifically in mind stop typing keep driving
number for quality of life now if you've been following this channel long enough
you know that there's this stat they rate cities and states with called
quality of life this stat takes things like poverty housing affordability how
well the state educates the students from preschool through high school the
economy and the state government's transparency integrity and fiscal
stability there are a few other stats but that's the main crookedness
California sucks California is ranked dead last that's 50
out of 50 people in quality of life number 49 was New Jersey by the way ask
any Californian and they will tell you that the state government is horrible if
they don't or they try and defend it call somebody that cares about that
person because their mind isn't right some say this is why California
legalized weed so some of the people would get so high they wouldn't realize
how bad the government is number three pollution California has bad everything
when it comes to pollution in the environment in general it's dirty pretty
much everywhere the water quality sucks and it has eight of the ten most
polluted cities by ozone or air quality whichever you want to call it they're
different but they're kind of the same all the while having the strictest
regulations in the country right behind Oregon how does that work or how is it
not working if you have all these regulations where is the results here's
an idea if you put regulations in place a make
sure they make sense and B make sure you have people in place to enforce them
instead of just enough people to use the regulations to generate revenue for the
state through fines it's that simple the that whole thing with California always
just blew me away they had the strictest laws about everything when it came to
pollution growing up there the water quality of the ocean I lived right by
the ocean was always in bad shape but we always heard that they have these strict
rules where's the results stupid number two utility companies are horrible
utility companies have always irritated me the rates are always too high they
were since as far back as I can remember and that's pretty much everywhere that's
why everyone hates the utility companies the water quality in Los Angeles where I
grew up was just a little bit better than Tijuana's
which isn't saying much and it seemed like the people that were running all
the utility companies were just plain dumb now back before I left California I
had a friend who'd worked at one of the water companies in LA I think he was
there about 10 years at the time the company decided to hire an Indian
company that would bring in their own employees to do his job and they you
know let everyone go here's the kicker if you wanted any sort of severance you
had to stay on and help train the person that was replacing you for Half Price
another one of the power companies in the 1990s was facing some costly repairs
to be in compliance with some new environmental laws that had come into
play as we have already learned that doesn't always work out they couldn't
afford it they didn't have the money to do it so one of their spokesman actually
said when he was talking in like the City Council that he didn't think it was
fair to the shareholders and the investors for the company to take out a
loan to cover these upgrades and repairs so instead they would treat it like they
had been under charging customers for five years and send all their customers
the bill for the difference genius the downside was in that press conference or
that meeting he admitted some people would see bills for like five thousand
dollars so as you can imagine the protests started like 15 minutes later
it didn't go through they didn't charge people back you know stupidest thing I
ever heard and more recently the utilities have had to shut off the power
for hundreds of thousands people because the chance of wildfires the state's
infrastructure is so horrible that they have to do things like that and then
every single time there's an earthquake now is called the worst ever earthquake
that's it the worst ever earthquake that knocks out the power for thousands of
people every single time sometimes for a day or two at a time it's horrible and
number one a massive political overcorrection
now this one's everywhere political correctness is gone too far lately but
California seems to be the worst in a lot of ways I think this massive
overcorrection is what has helped give rise to a lot of the division in this
country right now people who can only be pushed so far towards change in a short
amount of time before they rebelled and I think we're seeing a little rebellion
here example well I was working at a company here in Oregon two friends that
have been friends before they start working the known each other a long time
we're discussing a hike one friend didn't want to go on this longer hike
one weekend the other one did the other friend that want to go on longer hike
said don't be a sissy just do it that's all he said I heard the whole
thing someone else overheard that and filed a complaint about him and he was
written up I got pulled in that meeting it was BS course I acted like I didn't
hear anything now I understand a certain amount of political correctness is good
we don't need people just going overboard and really offending people
but it is moved beyond people actually being offended now the people
complaining about being offended really seem like that's just how they're
getting attention these days the attention they desperately need
obviously the old days we did it with talent and skills these days it's how
offended they could be being offended is not a skill or a talent now why is this
on the list a Southern California Police Department Laguna Beach put decals of
the American flag on their cars people complained that it was offensive and it
was aggressive they want him taken off and a couple of years back a student
council at one of the state colleges wanted American flags removed from the
campus because you guessed it it was offensive
all right so that is my 10 reasons why California sucks for failing I haven't
decided what to call this one yet anyway I hope you guys got some rice out of it
this is part one I'm gonna have another one here pretty soon it's a little you
know different than I'm used to anyway everybody have a great day be nice to
each other