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Gavin's Watch: So Many People Fled California It Could Lose a Congressional Seat in Census
BY VICTORIA TAFT DEC 20, 2020 1:03 PM ET
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Eureka! We found that gold you hear about in California. And it just left.
California lost so many people in the last decade that when the census numbers are all tabulated, it could lose a congressional seat. Even the state’s Rose Bowl game just left for Texas.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports the California Department of Finance says the state grew by only 21,200 residents in the past year, the lowest since 1900.
“This is a real sea change in California, which used to be this state of pretty robust population growth,” said Hans Johnson, a demographer at the Public Policy Institute of California. “It hasn’t been for some time now. But it’s now gotten to the point where the state is essentially not growing population-wise at all.”
[…] If the trends continue statewide and California’s population decreases, one of the most immediate effects could be the loss of a seat in Congress, Johnson said.
A Facebook group for people fleeing California that I’ve been monitoring for months is teeming with tales of getting the heck out of the Golden State. They don’t want to leave, but Leftist politics, remote work, fires, high energy prices, and high taxes force their hand.
They post photos of the homeless camps, rates for moving vans, give tips on where you can get a coveted 26′ truck from UHaul, ask for help in finding the most conservative cities in America to move to. They call on fleeing Californians to respect the beliefs of the state they’re moving to. Another person posts a parody article saying Texas has issued a stay-at-home order for Californians. A woman posts a receipt from a San Francisco parking garage to explain how the city is bleeding her dry.
(Facebook screenshot)A recent poster asked where people are going. They’re going back home to Knoxville, a guy jokes. Others chime in that Montana has beckoned them, North Carolina is a nice place to raise a family, and one commenter says he’s going to Missouri. Anyplace but California.
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It’s cheaper to rent a truck to move to California than to move out of California.
Staggering differential.
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Supply & demand. https://t.co/8G5nMW3Ykf
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 13, 2020
Tech billionaires are leaving and taking their employees with them. Even Gene Simmons of the rock group KISS is leaving California for Washington. Forbes reports that Simmons is disgusted. “Enough is enough,” he says.
“California and Beverly Hills have been treating folks that create jobs badly and the tax rates are unacceptable,” Simmons said. “I work hard and pay my taxes and I don’t want to cry the Beverly Hills blues but enough is enough.” Simmons isn’t the only one saying that. California may have more millionaires and billionaires, but the tax cost of living in the Golden State is high. It could go higher still, since the 13.3% Tax Rate may be raised to 16.8% retroactive to January 1, 2020. California top 13.3% rate is the highest in the nation, and it applies equally to ordinary income and capital gain. There’s even a legislative proposal for a 0.4% wealth tax.
The Democrats control all levers of power in California. There’s a super-majority at the statehouse, a governor in Sacramento who attempts to control people’s movements in the pandemic, but not his own. Instead of spending money to shore up and increase basic infrastructure such as water storage and forest and wildland management, California has spent billions on the laughably labeled “high-speed” train and lawsuits against President Trump. Pet projects have siphoned off billions from the state coffers and still politicians demand more from taxpayers – even after they’ve moved.
They decide how you should cook your food by plotting to get rid of natural gas appliances, which use the cheapest fuel around, while forcing them to pay for more expensive energy that won’t work at night and when the wind isn’t blowing. Brown-outs such as shutting off air conditioning and lights in August, have become commonplace because of these “renewable energy mandates.” They’re making personal travel more expensive by phasing out gas cars.
Democrats didn’t like the way people worked so they outlawed it.
They’re remaking California into their own utopia and, as predicted, people can’t afford to stay, nor want to. They want more freedom.
Those who kick up a fuss to protest lockdown orders and demand a recall of the governor are labeled as cranks, conspiracy theorists, and greedy by their betters in government.
California’s Department of Finance spokesman H.D. Palmer told the Union-Tribune that the pandemic has accelerated the changes in the state’s population.
“A lot of people who might otherwise have come to California didn’t, because they didn’t go anywhere,” Palmer said. “They stayed home. That’s something that’s different than any other year.”
And they’re not likely to come, either. As beautiful as the Golden State is, the “sunshine tax,” as greedy politicians call the high cost of living in California, is now too high.
When people get a whiff that California lawmakers plan to impose a decade-long wealth tax on people who only come to the state for 60 days in a year, they won’t bother to come at all. That includes students, people seeking medical care, and snowbirds.
So now the universe is telling California that it wants less of its brand of “leadership,” not more. And because so many people have left and will likely continue to do so, the state might lose a congressional seat in the census.
I’d joke that the last guy who leaves California should turn out the lights, but they already did that, too.
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Obama’s Secret Stay Behind Army
October 31 2019
It’s the most powerful three-letter agency in government.
More powerful than the CIA, the NSA and the FBI.
In fact, it’s so powerful it has its own seal and its own flag.
And no, it’s not the FDA, the SEC, or the IRS.
And it’s not part of Homeland Security or FEMA… Although its tentacles reach deep into every one of those agencies.
The mainstream media rarely mentions it by name…
So most Americans have no idea it even exists.
But thanks to an obscure executive order and the secretive, if not treasonous, actions by former President Barack Obama…
It’s become the hidden force behind the coup of a duly elected president and the ongoing “complete transformation of America.”
And only by exposing it and bringing it out of the shadows, will it ever be stopped.
You see, on December 15th, 2015, six months after Donald J. Trump declared his candidacy for president and began to rise in the polls…
Former President Barack Obama signed what at the time, appeared to be an innocuous executive order.
However, Obama’s intentions were much more complex and sinister.
Because with that single executive order, Barack Obama launched an accelerated purge of thousands of American patriots from virtually every government agency — including our intelligence services and the military —while replacing them with party loyalists and political operatives loyal not to the country and the Constitution, but to him and his globalist and progressive-socialist agendas.
It was a purge of patriots and a takeover of government that began early on in his first term…
A purge that began by transforming an obscure federal agency hidden deep within the bowels of government, into what soon became a private, stay behind army.
An army of political operatives committed to two things:
The complete political, cultural and economic transformation of America as promised by Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.
And the overthrow of a Donald J. Trump presidency should he be elected.
The Department of The Deep State
FlagThe Senior Executive Service, or “SES,” was created on September 19, 1979 during the Carter administration.
It was originally formed to professionalize career civil service, while attracting the nation’s best and brightest in an effort to improve and modernize the management of the federal bureaucracy.
A position within the “SES” is considered the equivalent to general officer or the flag officer ranks in the U.S. Armed Forces.
For that reason, they are often referred to as our “civilian generals.”
Their pay scale starts above the top level of civil service (GS-15), with base salaries ranging from a minimum of $127,914 to a maximum of $192,300.1
Ostensibly, the SES was to be a corps of non-partisan, career managers who serve as the executive management of federal agencies…
Their job being to implement policy, not create it.
At least it was until then President Barack Obama changed that with a mere flick of his pen…
Making SES members nearly impossible to fire, once hired.
To say Obama’s transformation of the SES into an army of political operatives was effective would be a gross understatement.
There are more than 2 million federal government employees. And at the top of that pyramid are approximately 8,000 SES (Senior Executive Service) employees who service as the professional managerial class linking our political leaders to the civil service rank and file.
And Barack Obama as president, replaced more than 6,000 members of the 8,000-member SES during his two terms, assembling what became a stay-behind army of political operatives…2
So how pervasive is the SES?
Here’s a list of the number of SES employees that were embedded in the following government agencies at the end of Obama’s 2nd term in 2016:
Department of Education – 86
Department of Housing & Urban Development – 115
Department of the Air Force – 182
Department of Labor – 200
Department of State – 204
Department of Transportation – 231
Department of Interior – 258
Department of the Army – 261
Department of the Navy – 326
Department of Veterans Affairs – 357
Department of Agriculture – 361
Department of Commerce – 425
Department of the Treasury – 458
Department of Health & Human Services – 468
Department of Defense – 478
Department of Energy – 490
Department of Homeland Security – 639
Department of Justice – 821
All Other Agencies (all non-Cabinet level agencies) – 1,796
And it wasn’t just a purge of patriots from governmental agencies…
https://stpaulresearch.com/2019/10/31/obamas-secret-stay-behind-army/
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Obama’s purge of the military was especially damaging to our national security, as he literally gutted the command structure of the U.S. military.
Not to mention the demoralization of the ranks due to his policies of radical political correctness.
In all, Obama’s patriot purge included 9 Senior Commanding Generals, 2 Nuclear Commanders, 197 high ranking Senior, General and Flag Officers, along with thousands of non-commissioned officers…
With perhaps the most glaring example being the firings of U.S. Army General Carter Ham and Rear Admiral Chuck Gaouette…
Red September…
Obama’s Benghazi Stand Down Order
General Carter Ham was relieved as head of U.S. Africa Command because he defied Obama’s “stand down” orders to not mount a rescue mission in response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi.
And Rear Adm. Chuck Gaouette, commander of the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group, was relieved for disobeying orders when he sent his group on Sept. 11 to “assist and provide intelligence for military forces ordered into action by Gen. Ham.”
And as damaging as Obama’s purge of the military was, it was his takeover and transformation of the Department of Justice, the F.B.I. and the Intelligence Agencies that raise the greatest threat to America today.
Because instead of being tools for implementing the policies of the president and the United States government…
They’ve become the defacto 4th Branch of Government and are now dictating and carrying out their own policies, while openly subverting and sabotaging those of a duly elected president.
But, before we go any further, please understand this…
Barack Obama was not the architect of these changes, merely the front-man in charge of carrying them out as the Deep State and Shadow Government’s placeholder president.
And that’s the root of President Trump’s problems…
Trump: America’s Last President
You see, in the post 9/11 world, we’ve transferred far too much power to the office of the president.
And that’s created a very big problem for the Deep State and our Shadow Government.
Because the one thing they can no longer ever allow to happen…
Is to have an outsider not under their control, become president.
And Donald J. Trump is definitely an outsider who is not under their control.
That’s why they launched their “insurance policy,” before President Trump was even sworn into office.
You remember their “insurance policy,” don’t you?
BuildingThe one orchestrated by Obama’s secret stay behind sleeper cell…
Located on the 7th floor of the Truman building in Washington D.C.
The “insurance policy” that Peter Strzok (the FBI’s Chief of Counterespionage), referred to in the now infamous text he sent to FBI attorney Lisa Page.
It was “Plan B,” just in case Trump was elected.
It’s what the Steele Dossier, the Mueller Investigation, the entire Russia-gate hoax and their current impeachment witch-hunt is all about…
Because as far as the Deep State and our Shadow Government are concerned…
The office of The President of the United States of America as we know it, no longer exists.
A real President…
Like JFK, or Reagan?
No longer acceptable.
You saw what happened to both of them.
No Dear Reader, they’re not looking for Presidents any more…
Nor will they tolerate one.
Especially one picked by you and not by them.
Thanks for reading,
Marty Robinson
Contributing Editor For Whiskey & Gunpowder
PS: The Shadow Government and The Deep State…
Fact, fiction, or conspiracy theory? Stay tuned, because we’ll be naming names and doing a deeper dive into both in future issues.
1 Senior Executive Service (United States), Wikipedia
2 They Decide What Government Does, New American
https://stpaulresearch.com/2019/10/31/obamas-secret-stay-behind-army/
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