America's third-world state. An example of Democrat leadership.

California is ranked number 4 in best economy in the U.S. It is also ranked 5th largest economy in the world at 3 trillion a year. If it was a country it would be between India and Germany in size.

Texas is ranked 12th in the nation.

CA is hardly sinking by any stretch of the imagination.

For those who keep expounding how great California is, I would like to introduce a few facts. Trigger Warning!!
Ignoring earthquakes, mudslides, droughts, and forest fires, here is the data;

1. California is ranked as the state with the lowest overall quality of life. (Ranked as 50th).
2. California has the lowest credit rating of all states and is ranked as 45th in fiscal responsibility.
3. California primary schools (K-12) are ranked as 44th. In 1968, it was ranked #1
4. California ranked last in urban air quality and 45th in "low pollution health risk.
5. California was ranked 49th for cost of doing business, and 50th in business friendliness.
6. California ranked 49th in voter participation.
7. California has the slowest and most expensive high-speed rail line.
8. In the last 20 years, 30% of people earning $70,000 - $200,000 have left the state.
9. California is ranked 49th for infrastructure quality.
10. San Francisco has banned plastic drinking straws but gives out 4.5 million plastic syringes each year for free.
11. California has been ranked one of the least free states at 48th by the Cato Institute.

As a proud resident of the Peoples' Republik of Taxifornia, I'd like to respond to each and every one of these claims:

1. I would have to question this one. Even our poor are pretty well off.
2. Guilty as charged.
3. Guilty as charged. We spend waaaaay too much on needless staff. They're like useless middle management. Teachers? We do need to spend more on them.
4. Guilty as charged. Our air is filthy, at least around our big cities.
5. Guilty as charged. We are inhospitable to business. I know this first hand.
6. Guilty as charged. No need to vote if there are only democrats on the ballot... usually.
7. What high speed rail line? That boondoggle of a project has been cancelled. The feds deserve to get their money back!
8. Guilty as charged. Yes, our middle class is shrinking.
9. Guilty as charged. Super guilty in fact. Although, we've passed ballot measure after ballot measure to rebuild our infrastructure, particularly roads, yet somehow... it's not getting rebuilt. Our roads are like mine fields only with potholes. In the last general election, the only money grabbing ballot measure that didn't pass is the one that would truly benefit all of us, which was funding to update the storage systems and delivery systems for drinking water.
10. Guilty as charged, sadly.
11. Guilty as charged, probably. I guess this one has a huge subjective element to it, because we're still in America, so we have some fundamental freedoms that it will take longer for them to chip away. But yes, our gubment is, on the whole, fairly oppressive to anyone who isn't of like political thinking.

Sorry, but #1 was not my opinion. USA Today did a study of all states and California came out last in quality of life.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/03/01/california-ranks-last-quality-life-new-report/384853002/

No need to say sorry. Just because I can't imagine that it's correct doesn't mean it's incorrect.

Although if I wanted to dig into that story and find out what their methodology was for making that determination, I'd bet it would be pretty easy to tear it apart. Usually "studies" that are from an entertainment news outlet like USA Today are pretty un-scientific.

Number 7 is a massive shame. they should've started off the route between Los Angeles and San Diego to make massive sums of money from the commuters. In Florida, the rail is a different story. Brightline (a private venture) made sure a train was up and running quickly.

Appropriate that you should compare it to India, another place suffering from an epidemic of poverty and public defecation and such.

That’s what happens when Democrats have a supermajority in their congress.

lol

Little known fact: PG&E is actually an arm of the Democratic party bought and paid for by none other than HILLARY CLIMPTON!!
Lol

Also, the Titanic didn't have a poop deck....

funny

as a citizen of California, i deem this accurate

Then explain all the wildfires that occurred before global warming could even be affected by human industry? (Which is the implication you're trying to make).

A friend who lives in Hollywood says there are
environmentalist regulations in place which keep the trees around power lines from being trimmed often enough to keep them out of the lines. She said she once saw the top of one tree catch on fire because it had grown right into the line. So, it seems to me that California needs to either enact sensible management of their trees or place the power lines underground. We have States as hot or hotter than California and they do not have continual issues with wildfires.

Winds, yes another reason for smart maintenance of trees.

The problem isn't "global warming." The problem is politicians who ignore the threat of not clearing the underbrush when told it was a fire hazard. It's politicians not doing their job when confronted with problems that could have been avoided in the beginning.

God, you people are stupid.

B.S. Not true.

Actually, he's right. Heat makes fire.

I doubt the climate temp of California is causing the wildfires. Wood burns at 451 degrees F. I am pretty sure the climate hasn't reached that yet.

However, listening to environmentalists and poor land management, do contribute to uncontrolled wildfires. The failure to create fire breaks, the refusal to thin the forests by not allowing logging, and the banning of control burning are major contributors. The Bureau of Land Mangement and the Dept. of the Interior has been warning California of the risks for years.

Add in the requirement by the California government that PG&E invest heavily in wind and solar rather than in upgrading the old existing infrastructure, and you have the perfect firestorm.

Then why aren’t wildfires increasing globally if it’s due to global warming?

/Everything/ is worse in California, including the conditions humans are forced to live in.

Right, it has nothing to do with poor forest management or the fact that you've been importing eucalyptus trees which are extremely flammable due to the volatility of the eucalyptus oil. Only global warming, lol. Someone shouldn't be accusing others of things being too complicated to understand.. you're a moron.

Wildfires are caused by many different factors and the state being "hotter" is likely not one of them. This state has been hot for a long, long time. Long before humans contributed even a ton of CO2 to teh atmosphere. If it were just heat, why don't other states that have warm summer temps, have the same problems?

Before you attack me, please know that I'm not a republican, and I do believe humans contribute to global warming. I'm not an alarmist though. Yes, we have more than 12 years.

Are you from California? Why are you so certain about your meme which claims a causal link (while providing zero proof) between "global warming" and California's wild fires?

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Ridiculous! So these first just started when Trump came into office?!?? Hah!

It's amazing how the people who hate Trump so much that they lose their ability to view things objectively, have tried to blame him for problems that have been around for years or even decades before he became president.

The fires are mainly the cause of poor maintenance of electric transmission lines. Some of the towers are 100yrs old. Cracked and brittle. That's why they're shutting power down during high winds, when wires break.