What is going on everyone? Welcome back for part three of why California sucks
or why California is failing whichever you prefer
I know sucks is sort of a harsh word and if you're one of the people that's been
complaining about me using that word saying that it's too harsh I just like
to say sucks to be you I'm gonna keep using it
back to the golden state it should be no surprise to anyone that keeps up with
current affairs California spends a lot of time in the various news cycles for
its ever-growing list of failures and questionable moves the facts are pretty
straight forward I mean you can overcomplicate it in anything and you
know give arguments because you've overcomplicated but let's just simplify
it California brings in more money than any
other state California by itself is the fifth largest economy in the world and
that's as of 2018 it'll probably pass Germany in the next few years so like I
said let's look at a simple way they bring in far more than any other state
in the Union they tax the residents more than any other state yet they still suck
and they still have budget shortfalls some of the wealthiest neighborhoods and
people in the country live in the Golden State and California has some of the
best wine country but they also have number ten failing schools California
has some of the best university and trade schools in the country and that's
the end of the good news when it comes to education in California California
teachers are the fifth highest paid in the nation the California students
ranked 46 and math and 49th and reading now they're not just overpaid because
they're overpaid they live in a very expensive state so of course a
government employee state county whatever is going to get higher than say
someone in Mississippi's so that's understood but the thing is California
scored 45th in the nation's report card for public schools getting educated in
California is an uphill battle here's the thing California teachers for the
most part are excellent at what they do but when the school districts are so
broken that teachers have to buy pencils with their own money there's a problem
and it normally has to do with the budget and who's managing that budget
and what the state's giving them you need supplies you need equipment you
need computers you need things like that to educate kids it's not just the
teacher I mean California does have the lowest per pupil spending in the nation
so you gotta expect bad scores right number nine the exodus the amount of
people leaving California is starting to be a problem there's been a steady flow
of outward migration in California for about a decade maybe a little more maybe
a little less anyway the real problem with that is who's moving for the most
part it's the middle class the middle class makes up a majority of the
population and a majority of the people paying those high taxes we've spoken
about I think like any business you can charge a premium when everyone wants
your product in this case California is charging a lot in taxes that's the
premium because a lot of people wanted to live there that was their product
these days the product California's lifestyle isn't as popular as it used to
be I think it's only going to get worse like anyone governments get addicted to
the tax revenue and it is going to be hard when they have to take a look and
say we need to lower these taxes or it's just gonna be us sitting here staring at
you know an open desert with a nice beach number eight power prices like
everything else in this state electricity is expensive residential
customers in California pay about 50% more for electricity than the national
average this is of course to private companies and that we sort of touched on
in video one of this series we talked about how all the utility companies are
just horrible they're run by horrible people and they do horrible things to
their customers now they can get away with it because they have a monopoly on
whatever area of the state you live in Nebraska is the only state that
generates electricity entirely by publicly owned power systems as of 2018
the Nebraska statewide average electricity price is the fourteenth
lowest rate in the country that's based on the latest federal
figures nationally electricity costs 15% more than it does in Nebraska for you
know that's the average 15 percent more across the entire country Hawaii has the
highest electricity rate with twenty six point seven cents per every kilowatt
hour Louisiana has the lowest I don't know how they pulled that off but it's
only seven point seven five cents per kilowatt hour
California is sixteen point five zero cents for every kilowatt hour so when
you're doing your budget for moving to California
don't forget about $250 a month for electricity or $100 for electricity and
$100 for candles or you can just buy a pair of night-vision goggles and roughen
number seven mother nature mother nature hates California more than the average
hardcourt Republican does we know this because what happens
every single year you have wildfires racing up and down the hills outside of
Los Angeles and the Bay Area every single year a good friend of mine
actually lost her house in one of those fires two years ago I think she owned it
less than a year at the time and just burnt down to the ground she updates the
rebuild on her Facebook whole time I think she's finally getting ready to
move back in anyway this is two years later every year this happens and they
never seem prepared I used to watch them fight the fires on the news when I lived
in Southern California and they always had a fire chief on that acted like wow
who knew the whole hillside could go up in flames like that is amazing
I never saw that one coming I know we had the same thing happened last year
and a year before that and the year before that but Wow
boy do I beg on my face we were not prepared for this one this year I
remember these big Plains they would have that would scoop water out of lakes
in the ocean as they you know they kind of land and just scoop up water and then
take off right away and then they'd go fly over and dump the water on the
flames and kind of help you know fight the fire and they would always say that
they're borrowing them from Canada they borrowed two of them from Canada make
sure are effective here's an idea California if they're so effective why
don't you buy some super scoopers of your own maybe you know I don't know six
spread them around the state or something who knows could borrow them
from Canada anyway after the fire season you have the rainy season which isn't
that big of a deal they don't get much rain but all those hillsides that got
burnt out well they don't have any vegetation holding the earth in place
anymore every time it rains all those people who almost got their house
torched spend most of their time wondering if this year's mudslide is
going to actually wash their house out to sea
number six Mother Nature on steroids wildfires and mudslides are bad enough
but a serious earthquake can be devastating I've been in a bunch of
small earthquakes and three big ones I was in the military during one of them
and had to guard a building that had collapsed in California people are
trying to loot this building that was almost completely leveled it still had
bodies in it it was summer it was hot and they'd been there for about a week
it was rough California is part of the Ring of Fire in case you don't know what
that is the Ring of Fire is a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where
many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur about 90% of the world's
earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire the Ring of Fire is a direct result of
tectonic plates moving and colliding with other
this causes the earthquakes and all kinds of nonsense that goes with it
volcanic eruptions who knows on top of all that yep sea levels rising which
could bring even more chaos and play within the next 50 or 80 years and that
of us will probably be around then but still number five crime yeah finally get
the crime I know it's a lot of you've been waiting for it California's no
stranger to crime California has some of the worst prime in the country back in
the day if you avoided Compton Oakland and maybe Watts you are pretty much safe
kind up these days those places are considered sort of tame compared to
other cities like Fresno Long Beach or Stockton California if you want to see
some violence go to any one of those cities or be at an all-you-can-eat place
when they run out of wings with my cousin's ex-wife the rampant gang
activity in the state gets even worse with each passing year Los Angeles is
considered the gang capital of America California's violent crime rate is the
ninth highest in the nation they have four of the top ten most violent cities
in the United States number four breaking up a state in my life I have
seen I think three or four movements to break up California sometimes three
states they want break into six states it's never going to happen every time
they bring it up I've heard someone say it's going to happen this time and they
act like they have some insider information on it they know then it
never makes the ballot on top of that yellow area and the San Francisco Bay
Area pretty much make all the money for the state what does Northern California
have to make money on water and weed that's about it but the breaking up of
California isn't the real issue the issue is parts of the state feel that
their interests aren't being represented California is a one-party state Democrat
with a few representatives and towns that lean right well very right in some
cases so there's this frustration and an anger that their government isn't
working for them it's not just California Oregon has a very liberal
Western section near Portland and Salem and then you have the eastern section of
the state which is very Republican that is the biggest obstacle I think this
country not just the state's faces people feeling that they're not being
represented it's always been that way but it's gotten worse over the years
politicians don't bend anymore they're there to advance what their
people want deels negotiate do some politicking they
don't do it anymore they stick to what the party tells them
to do because that's where all the money is the money tells them what to do and
that's it there's no more negotiating it's either black or it's white they've
eliminated gray and it's both sides it's not just one side it's both of them and
then each side has the zealots you know them you could see them in the comments
section of almost any video I don't care if I did a video on Crayola taking
periwinkle out of the 32 box people would blame it on the other side it's
the Liberals they're removing the periwinkle you know or it's the they
need to remove the brown one because it's racist
you know it's everyone has it it's just weird do nothing but making it worse
number three no fix in sight the Golden State has all these things that need to
be fixed as far as the middle-class and poor residents go but they ain't making
the right moves to help those people out California is home to roughly one-third
of the nation's welfare recipients despite having just 12% of the nation's
population and nearly one out of every four California residents is considered
poor now we sort of touched on this before but we need to look at the cause
and the lack of solution a little bit deeper now to be fair as far as the
welfare recipient thing goes they don't lead the country in the per capita that
would be Oklahoma but moving on so what's the problem or at least one of
the main problems when businesses leave the middle class shrinks and many who
once had jobs lose them obviously and a portion of them slip into the poor
category because they can't find another job or they can't find one that pays as
well as maybe the company they've been with for ten or fifteen years why are
businesses leaving 40 years of hostility towards business chases amount high
utilities and labor costs Chase's amount excessively punitive regulations
absolutely problems with housing affordability for the employees
absolutely these things all make for a very toxic environment for businesses so
in a nutshell they've chased all these companies out with all their BS here's
why there's no fix in sight California is lagging behind in this new
trend of restoring jobs reassuring jobs means basically companies are moving
back that have been overseas for some time so they're coming back they're just
not coming back to California all the issues that I mentioned before are
sending companies to basically Texas and things like that so it's like there's a
solution out there but they're making no moves
towards that solution number two the harbor's California has 11 shipping
harbors or ports whatever you want to call it and they have two major ones in
LA and Long Beach California there are two the largest shipping harbors in the
country and they're right next to each other unless you live or work in that
area you probably wouldn't know the difference if you look at them from a
map they look like one big thing but they're actually two so why is this a
problem they're both far too big and sort of
unmanageable far more bad things come through these harbors than any state
border in the country the amount of containers that flow through these
harbors is crazy about 16 million containers are offloaded in California
harbors every single year with about 80 percent of them going through LA and
Long Beach harbors it is impossible to open up each one of these and inspect it
one harbor officials said that they estimate they only catch about five
maybe 10% of the illegal stuff that ends up in these harbors and number one the
drugs Californians have always been known for their ability to be high most
of the time obviously that's a stereotype but it's not much of a
stereotype California's history with drugs is legendary
it started in California in the 1950s and 60s with the weed and hasn't stopped
leading the country in the latest drug trends except for maybe that whole oxy
thing that happened in like Kentucky in Ohio and West Virginia everything else
they've been ahead of the pack why is this for one thing it's the culture
another thing it's the lifestyle and third it's the steady supply you have
the border and then the before-mentioned harbors there are too many ways to get
things into California it doesn't matter if you build a wall 30 stories high with
a moat that has sharks with frickin laser beams in it they will find a way
to get what is in-demand into the United States through California most the time
back in the 1980s it was coming through Florida across the water which is far
more difficult to get over than a wall in the middle of the desert the fact is
as long as there's a demand money to be made and people willing to do it drugs
will find their way into the Golden State nothing we can do about it made me
just kind of slow it down a little bit
all right so that is my last top 10 reasons California sucks that was three
videos on this it was pretty interesting California does suck there's no getting
around it they've got some work to do they got good people there most of them
leaving but good people in California it's too bad it's just sucked forever
it's why I left anyway don't forget all the links below don't forget to that
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