California Voters Agree State is Expensive and Lacks Jobs

American Thinker

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One of the reasons the reported unemployment rate isn't higher is that the State of California's statistically considers all 1,427,000 welfare recipients to be "employed." With only 12% of the nation's population, 34% of nation's welfare recipients now live in California. This robust participation rate in this "employment program" is due to California paying ultra-high monthly cash grants of $638 to families on welfare. The state also continues to pay benefits for children after the parents lose eligibility and provides child care and transportation if beneficiaries attend school or training.[emphasis added]

Comment:

For those with a brain, let's figure out what this means.  Number one, giving people free stuff doesn't make them "employed".  That's dishonesty.  This is how California can fool themselves and the rest of us into thinking that conditions are good over there.  Number two, those who are on the receiving end can't pay for their benefits.  This impoverishes not only the recipients, but the state itself.  Number three, the people who like this outcome are the problem, which exacerbates the situation and makes it difficult to unwind.  Try taking away their free stuff and they will go on a rampage.

The only way to turn California around is to get enough people over there to recognize that all this free stuff is hurting them, not helping them.  Only if you pull that off can you even begin to have hope for that state.  They don't care that they don't have enough jobs.  After all, the government will take care of them.  But what happens when the government is no longer capable of doing that?