California Hate Thread

[Ex-California]

Raising Minimum Wage Causes Restaurant Die-Off

Not mentioned but also a factor is astronomical rent which causes problems for both the restaurants and the ability to keep employees

[Speaker to Animals]

Raising Minimum Wage Causes Restaurant Die-Off

Not mentioned but also a factor is astronomical rent which causes problems for both the restaurants and the ability to keep employees

He's a good writer.

In a pair of affluent coastal California counties, the canary in the mineshaft has gotten splayed, spatchcocked and plated over a bed of unintended consequences, garnished with sprigs of locally sourced economic distortion and non-GMO, “What the heck were they thinking?”

As politicians insert their sausage fingers into subtle market mechanisms, scarcity and unintended consequences will ensue.

That's great stuff.

[TheReal_ND]

who's ready for the Exploration of the American West Podcast, episodes 1-5 Lewis and Clark, episode 6 French Trappers, episode 7-12 Jedidiah Smith?

I'll call Casper and Harry's and Audible and see if they'll hook it up

Maybe ZipRecuriter too?

Delet

[TheReal_ND]

[TheReal_ND]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... outhwards/

Immigration to the U.S. has failed to make up for the number of residents leaving New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — the nation’s top three metropolitan areas.

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

O, that airbag's gonna smart!

[TheReal_ND]

Nobody tell him. Self removing flak cannons ftw

[Ex-California]

Nobody tell him. Self removing flak cannons ftw

The worst thing is that's a "him"

[Ex-California]

June 20, 2017
Source: California Healthline

As they scrambled to finalize next year’s state budget, California lawmakers this week abruptly dropped a plan to offer full Medicaid benefits to young adults living in the country illegally.

The proposal, which would have used money from California’s recently implemented tobacco tax, passed through budget committees last month. That had led some proponents to believe it might succeed, despite the nation’s fraught political climate over immigration and plans in Washington to cut Medicaid spending.

There was a “realistic hope” that the proposal might be included in the state budget that lawmakers are expected to vote on and send to Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday, said Daniel Zingale, a senior vice president at the California Endowment. “I wouldn’t say people are shocked, but there is definitely some disappointment. There are a lot of complicated crosscurrents, especially with what is going on in the federal government.”

There were many competing priorities for use of the tobacco tax money, said Stan Rosenstein, a health care consultant in Sacramento and former director of California’s Medicaid program. The tax is expected to raise about $1.2 billion in the first year, and how to spend it has been the subject of a months-long political tussle in the statehouse.

“It always comes down to negotiations … there is always a limited amount of money and a long list of how to spend it,” Rosenstein said, adding that boosting Medicaid payments for doctors and dentists was “the basis of the [tobacco tax] initiative.”

Under a deal announced Monday, legislators plan to send the governor a budget that includes $325 million to boost payments for doctors and $140 million for dentists in Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program.

The plan scrapped by legislators would have extended coverage to approximately 80,000 immigrants ages 19 to 26 living in the country without permission, at a cost of up to $86 million. It would have made California the first state to provide full Medicaid benefits to adults living here illegally. California and a handful of other states already offer full Medicaid coverage to children regardless of immigration status.

Expanding eligibility for Medi-Cal may not be the prime concern at this point, especially when “there is a big cloud over the entire Medicaid program,” Rosenstein said, referring to proposed GOP cutbacks. “We’ve got to see what the federal government does.”

We The People Rising, a Claremont, Calif.-based group that opposes unlawful immigration and had argued against the extension of Medi-Cal for undocumented immigrants, praised lawmakers’ decision to drop the plan.

“I think this was a good move, one reason being that our budget should be dedicated to helping our own citizens,” said Robin Hvidston, the group’s executive director.

Immigrant and health care advocates in the state said they will continue their push to extend benefits to young adults in the country without permission.

“We’re disappointed that we missed this opportunity, but absolutely, we’ll be back,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access, a health consumer advocacy group in Sacramento. “We’re committed to the goal.”

[TheReal_ND]

Only California would encourage illegal immigration so blatantly to begin with. I think something stinks here. They are passing something else that's stupid and dropping the outright fantastical elements of it methinks