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Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

More and more headlines look as if they are from the Babylon Bee. Let’s discuss the latest idiocrasy from la-la land.

Governor Gavin Newsom courtesy of the Hoover Institute

Background

In California, police don’t arrest criminals because prosecutors will just turn them loose. People and businesses are tired of the crime. The result is a campaign to roll back Soros-backed proposition 47 that made theft of less than $950 in goods a misdemeanor.

Stores are at the mercy of shoplifters and many merchants have decided to close up shop. Downtown San Francisco looks like a ghost town.

California Voter Revolt

The proposition 47 reversal has gathered enough signatures that it will be on the ballot.

However, the Progressive nut cases running the state propose an alternate measure with a laughable poison pill aimed at stopping the rollback.

The Wall Street Journal comments A Voter Revolt Grows in California.

Democrats Alternative Solution

Wow. Not even $50,000 currently gets much attention in California. People don’t bother reporting crimes because the police and prosecutors will not do a damn thing about anything.

Poison Pill

Let’s discuss how the Democrats bill would work.

Someone commits a 200 shoplifting crimes of which 25 get reported and 3 investigated. The three are immediately released because the amounts are under $950.

Ta Da!

The court issues a restraining order telling these shoplifters “Don’t do it again, or else”.

Or else what?

There is no or else what. Every criminal in California will be openly laughing how stupid this is.

Newsom’s Real Concern

Newsom’s real concern is not crime. He is living in a six-bedroom, 12,000-square-foot mansion in Fair Oaks.

Crime does not concern the governor.

What does concern Newsom is a huge budget deficit. If Prop 47 is reversed more people will be put in prison.

Thanks to union graft with Newsom in bed with union leaders, a need for more prison guards would further bust Newsom’s budget.

Annual Prison Guard Salaries

Image from ZipRecruiter, salaries as of June 10, 2024.

Newsom cant afford more prison guards, more teachers, more union anything because of outrageous base pay and then benefits on top of it.

On October 20, 2023 the Sacramento Bee reported In ‘major policy change,’ these state workers will get state-funded 401(k)s, plus pensions.

Lovely.

And please note correctional officers do not contribute to social security.

Other Benefits

Vision: An eye exam and one pair of glasses once every calendar year. The State pays 100% of the premium; employees pay a $10 (eye exam) and $25 (materials) deductible.

Paid Holidays: Each employee is entitled to receive pay for 13 State holidays observed throughout the year. Additionally, one personal holiday credit is earned each fiscal year.

Paid Leave: Employees receive leave credits for each qualifying pay period. Employees can be paid for accumulated annual leave and vacation credits upon permanent separation from State service.

Transit Subsidy: Employees may be eligible to receive a 75% discount on monthly transit passes and/or rideshare programs, up to $65 per month

Other benefits from California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Reparations Committee

In Oakland, The Reparations Committee Wants $5 Million in Tax Dollars – Just to Come Up With a Plan

Idiocy in California is Apparently Unlimited

January 10, 2024: The Hotel California Wealth Tax Advances, You Cannot Leave to Escape It

February 4, 2024: Cost of Running a McDonalds Jumps $250,000 in CA Due to Minimum Wage Hikes

March 26, 2024: Proposition 103 Backfires, State Farm to Cancel 72,000 California Policies

March 26: California Restaurants Cut Jobs as Fast-Food Wages Set to Rise

March 30, 2024: California’s Deficit Is $222 Billion and the State is $1.6 Trillion in Debt

May 20, 2024: California Governor Escalates the War on Gasoline Impacting Neighboring States

Voting With Their Feet

Anyone with the means and an ounce of common sense is leaving these Progressive hell holes.

I offer Congratulations to NY, IL, LA, and CA for Losing the Most Population.

Twenty Percent of California Lives in Poverty, What’s Going On?

On a cost-adjusted basis, California leads the nation in percentage living in poverty. Blame the Progressive oligarchs like Governor Newsom.

Unemployment rates from the BLS through April. State level data lags by one month. Chart by Mish.

For discussion, please see Twenty Percent of California Lives in Poverty, What’s Going On?

Anyone stupid enough to vote for these Progressive fools deserves what they get.

Unfortunately, the Progressives are taking everyone down with them. The only escape is to leave, as millions have done.