After more than a decade of warnings California Governor Jerry Brown continued to waste billions of dollars supporting illegal immigrants, record-breaking handouts and bizarre special interest groups while ignoring the infrastructure needs of state citizens.
His unsustainable budget practices have left the Oroville dam in disrepair and created a mountain of debt that now exceeds $400 Billion and is climbing fast.
In an excellent article uscommonsense.org clarifys that state officials and the media depict California’s debt “wall” as $26.2 billion, far smaller than it actually is. California’s actual wall of debt is $443 billion. The state’s complete and growing Wall of Debt reflects unsustainable budgeting practices.
Now, after blowing his budget and bashing the Trump administration, he has a disaster on his hands and no where to go but the White House. He will undoubtedly get federal aid to help solve the problem his fiscal irresponsibility has created, but many who see the need to help fellow Americans, tire of bailing out a state that can’t take care of itself, even without a disaster.
According to the California Debt Clock California has accrued a debt of over 454 billion dollars that is growing at the rate of about $1,000 per second. That’s not spending, but debt. Every second California is spending $1,000 more than it is taking in. The solution in the past has been to raise taxes, but as businesses bail and residents struggle, the policies of the past are rapidly coming to a screeching halt.
The dam is still intact, but as the water rises in the already flooded lowlands below the dam it is becoming apparent that the potential damage from a complete breach would make this one of the most significant disasters in California history.
VIDEO: Powerful Pictures Of The Oroville Dam That Should Embarrass Gov. Brown
sources: youtube, wikipedia, US Debt Clock, uscommonsense.org
