{"id":16225,"date":"2013-01-29T07:11:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T13:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=16225"},"modified":"2013-01-30T22:44:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T04:44:02","slug":"california-completely-screwed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=16225","title":{"rendered":"California: Completely Screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of going out and doing the heavy lifting myself on a Texas vs. California update, Victor Davis Hanson [[Corrected. &#8211; LP]] has done another of his <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/california-at-twilight\/?singlepage=true\">California is totally screwed<\/a> pieces, and it&#8217;s a cornucopia of facts on California&#8217;s decline.<\/p>\n<p>A few tidbits:<\/p>\n<li>Salinas just named an elementary school after a serial cop killer\n<li>Racist Latino gangs are now driving black families <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0126-compton-20130126,0,977110.story\">straight out of Compton<\/a>\n<li>&#8220;Hundreds of thousands of the working and upper-middle class, mostly from the interior of the state, have fled \u2014 maybe four million in all over the last thirty years, taking with them $1 trillion in capital and income-producing education and expertise. Apparently, they tired of high taxes, poor schools, crime, and the culture of serial blame-gaming and victimhood.&#8221;\n<li>&#8220;One of every three welfare recipients lives in California.\u201d\n<\/li>\n<p>Read the whole thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of going out and doing the heavy lifting myself on a Texas vs. California update, Victor Davis Hanson [[Corrected. &#8211; LP]] has done another of his California is totally screwed pieces, and it&#8217;s a cornucopia of facts on California&#8217;s decline. A few tidbits: Salinas just named an elementary school after a serial cop killer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":25,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,422,102,17,16,65,232],"tags":[354,406,2872,2864,2863,63,1037,1029,78,2875],"class_list":["post-16225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-control","category-budget","category-crime","category-democrats","category-economics","category-waste-and-fraud","category-welfare-state","tag-border-controls","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-democrats","tag-economics","tag-fraud","tag-liberal-racism","tag-victor-davis-hanson","tag-waste","tag-welfare-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16225"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16252,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225\/revisions\/16252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}