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Also the same KFF.org data shows that 50% of Medicaid non-elderly recipients in Arizona are Hispanic.

That may explain the "demographics is destiny" effect in Arizona as it is becoming a Democrat state.

It’s fucking insane how badly liberal policies fuck everyone here over. Boiling frog at this point.

FortWayneIndiana says

It’s fucking insane how badly liberal policies fuck everyone here over. Boiling frog at this point.

University of Virginia's Larry Sabato calls it "demographics is destiny".

Will California bifurcate between a 3rd world community and a 1st world Tech / Internet community ?

AD says

This could be resolved a lot by making affordable housing (i.e., working class apartments, condos, townhomes, etc.) more available.

I read that Governor Newsom is pushing ahead with bring more affordable housing to California.

Housing (i.e., rent or mortgage/taxes/insurance/HOA fee) should not be more than 1/3 of the monthly household net income. If the average working class wage is $15 an hour, then the monthly rent should be about $700. That is why two-income households are required to purchase a home or rent a nice home.

Wishing for a thing does not make it so. Rent is what it is because that's what it costs to provide that domicile once you've factored in the cost of originally securing the land, building and maintaining the structure, supplying utilities, paying for community needs such as transportation, fire safety, security, emergency services, education, miscellaneous support services, earmarks, and special interest group handouts. Not to mention the sort of stable environment that the aforementioned create in order to support enough economic opportunities to make the place worth living in to begin with.

All of that is why the land costs what it does, the taxes and leverage are what they are, and in result what the rent is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_iron_law_of_bureaucracy

...in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representatives who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.

Hence, the reason why the total percentage of administrators in Education has grown from 10% to over 50% since the 50's. Take your kids our of public school now. But make sure to research the schools you put them into: it will determine whether they become a snowflake or a productive citizen.

The poor are there so that we coastal elites can enjoy the sounds of their crunching bones under our Bentleys.