Democrat Disasters

Democrat controlled California is teeming with rich people. Yet after the cost of living is factored in, California is the most poverty-stricken state in the union. One fifth of her population is struggling to buy basic necessities. The state’s poverty rate is on a par with Jamaica, Trindad and Tobago.

As old San Francisco hippies say, “Dude, really?”

In 2016, California Democrats won more than two-thirds of seats in the state’s Legislature, so Democrats hold all the power. San Francisco is famous for being deep blue with 84 percent of all voters registering as Democrat. It’s been 55 years since the city had a Republican mayor. It’s been awhile. The Beatles visited that year as well, which shows how long it’s been.

After 55-years of Democrat leadership, San Francisco should be an idyllic place to live and work. Not even close. Democrat control has produced just the opposite. San Francisco is being overrun by misery and squalor not seen since Dicken’s London. In the once scenic city by the bay, thousands of new homes arrive in a box accurately marked, Tent.

Watch Your Step

San Francisco’s homeless population is about 10,000 and growing. Those homeless people have epidemic rates of mental illness, addiction and diseases such as HIV. Public drug use, urination and human feces (yes, poop) are common sites. It is so bad locals created an online poop map.

City government, Democrats all, will spend $405 million this year on free “homeless services.” But free services are attracting more homeless. Who knew? Will voters ever try a new approach? Maybe elect a few Republicans? No chance. Once Democrats overtake a city they rarely let her go. Pestilence has a similar policy.

Detroit was once the crown jewel of the automobile industry. Now it is one of the poorest cities in America; its last Republican mayor was in 1957. In Philadelphia, the last time a Republican steered City Hall was 1952. In St. Louis, 1949, and in Chicago a Republican hasn’t sat behind the mayor’s desk since 1927, nearly a century ago.

From Gold into Grime – The Reverse Midas Touch

Democrat scandals and faces change, but the party never dies. Baltimore’s last three mayors were all Democrats, and all were forced to leave office early. The most recent, Catherine Pugh, is facing state and federal investigations. Democrat crime inside city hall translates directly into higher crime outside city hall.

Democrat run cities, according to recent FBI data, are the most violent cities in the country. The worst are legion and well known. They are St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, New York City, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Democrat rule in Flint, Michigan, was so bad that not even the water is safe.

Democrats turn prosperity into poverty. Democrat policies include lax law enforcement and high taxes. The former increases crime and the latter drives out business and job creators. Democrats favor big taxpayer funded programs to solve poverty and crime. They do neither. They, instead, waste money and destroy wealth.

Pappy was a Democrat

In 1950 Baltimore’s median income was 7 percent above the national average but, by 2017, it was 19 percent below. St. Louis, our country’s murder-rate capital, income is 33 percent below the national average. Despite such poor performance, when old Democrat mayors leave office, new Democrat mayors arrive like clockwork.

Change is hard, which explains its short supply. In 2016, Baltimore had five high schools and a middle school without a single student, not one, who scored proficient in math or reading. A 2009 Loyola study found that amid Baltimore’s 700,000 people were “200,000 functionally illiterate adults.” Those adults will likely mimic their parents and grandparents and vote straight Democrat.

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Never Been Good at Math

Democrats claim to love the environment. They express that love through strict zoning and environmental laws. Those laws, however, increase construction costs. As a result San Francisco, and many other big cities, have sky-high real estate prices. The median price for a single-family San Francisco home is $1.5 million.

San Francisco has the highest concentration of billionaires in the country, 1 out of every 11,612, and, so far none are reported as homeless. They can afford a $1.5 million home, especially if it comes with a sturdy homeless-proof gate. The math, however, does not work well on a teacher’s or bus driver’s salary. The result is an exodus of San Francisco’s middle class.

People are also fleeing Democrat controlled Flint, MI, except Flint doesn’t have billionaires to pick up the tax shortfall. Housing is cheap but, with a poverty rate of 40 percent, that matters little. Poor people don’t contribute much in tax revenues. Flint is a financial disaster and failed Democrat government is largely to blame.

Democrat politicians working with union officials approved generous pensions for city workers. Flint now has more than 1,900 retirees. The city spends 75 cents of every health care dollar on its retirees. More busted math! Flint has been contemplating bankruptcy since 2013.

An ATM for Democrats and a Disaster for America

Unlike many Democrat run cities, Democrat politicians and labor unions are financially healthy. A Center for Union Facts (CUF) report showed over $1.1 billion in union member dues went directly to liberal groups. Those groups have familiar names such as Planned Parenthood, the Clinton Foundation and the Democratic Governors Association. Why?

Loyalty and sweetheart deals. City, state and federal government employees are highly unionized. Their unions’ political contributions grease the skids for future salary and pension agreements. It is legal money laundering. The last time the Teamsters endorsed a Republican for president was 1956, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The Democrats’ pitch is simple – free stuff, fear and boogeymen. The 2020 election will be no different. They can’t run on their records because, across the board, those records are disasters. So the Democrats will try to beat something, the Trump economy, with nothing, empty promises, scare tactics and Trump-hate. As old San Francisco hippies say, “Dude, really?”