Wednesday Open Comments

The Blue State Exodus Is About More Than Economics; We’re Fed up With Being Treated Like We’re Stupid

From Red State:

…we have all been writing about the California adios for at least three years now…. it started with AB5, the rabidly anti-independent contractor law that was signed by Newsom in 2019. Many of the colleagues and activists who were a part of the AB5 fight at the beginning now live in other states: Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Idaho… name your business-friendly, right-to-work red state, and they found it. It was not because they lacked the will to fight, but because it became a matter of self-preservation. Staying in the fight required the ability to live and work without being concerned about an adversarial government whose only intention is to destroy the livelihoods they worked so hard for.

With the looming Department of Labor rule changes, the push for the PRO Act, and the nomination of Julie Su to fill the post of Secretary of Labor, these same activists were still all in, but now doing it from a national perspective. We were the first casualties in California, and we saw the fallout coming to other states before anyone else was paying attention. It is no mistake that on Wednesday, as chair of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, California Congressman Kevin Kiley is going to do an accounting of AB5 and the damage it has done to the state — damage spearheaded by Julie Su herself, who is scheduled to begin her Senate confirmation hearings on Thursday. While California independent professionals, small businesses, and the self-employed are grateful to Congressman Kiley and feel as though we have finally been vindicated, in many ways, it has been too little, too late.

Make no mistake: California’s AB5 started the exodus, but now other Blue states are seeing their taxpayer base depart in droves. Whether it be for economic freedom, vocational freedom, protection of family, or better quality of life, the trend that started just before the pandemic is now a massive wave.

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My husband and I are now among this number. We are working to move out of California before Summer ends. The state …has essentially bled us dry and left us with nothing to show for our decades of hard work. Between financial crises, illnesses, the fallout from AB5, the government’s manipulation of housing, and the rampant homelessness of which we have no desire to be a part, you can stick a fork in us…

This couple is going to borrow money to leave…because they have been robbed of the fruits of their labor.  Their friend had to do the same.  They must do this just to survive.  For another set of friends, those friends are moving to protect their children from the radical left indoctrination at the public school.

It boils down to no longer pouring money down the drain as well as quality of life. If you are paying three-quarters of your income on someone else’s mortgage, you have little to no margin for anything else. Couple this with being afraid to go out for fear of crime, Bidenflation increasing the costs of goods and services, and stepping over homeless to get to work. So, for many, moving out of their blue state has become a no-brainer.

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But the icing on this crap cake is a political class that simply Does. Not. Care. This is also reflected in the departure. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom would rather go to red states and point out what is wrong with them than fix the massive issues in California. Then, when he is challenged on his poor governance, Hair Gel has the unmitigated gall to gaslight and obfuscate by claiming this is the land of freedom and people are more concerned with abortion rights and infanticide than they are about their lives and property being stolen, or their children being mutilated.

We are so lucky to not only be born in America, but to be in Texas.  Well, most of us, anyway.  I cannot even imagine doing all of the hard work that Hubby and I have done, the risks we have taken, the money we’ve lost, the stress we’ve endured…only to have the government take it and give it to someone else not willing to put in the effort.

May God bless those who are escaping the lovely hell hole that goes by the name of California.  The same for the New York, et al, refugees.  Please, just do not come here and make the same voting mistakes that destroyed your lives.

And I hope that those poorly educated but well indoctrinated skulls of mush have a “growing up” experience that’ll show them just how badly they are treating others by foisting such a disastrous agenda upon the public.  Before it’s too late.

Oooooh, that swirling!