Richmond and Los Angeles Have Been Mugged By Reality
Posted by freedomforall 1 week, 2 days ago to Politics
Excerpt:
"Los Angeles is burning down. The government incompetence there is extraordinary. LA has its own DEI problems. Its fire chief was hired because she is an outspoken lesbian. Her initiative has been to hire more women and LGBTQ firefighters. Yep, I want a 99 lb mentally ill woman who thinks she’s man pulling me out of a burning fire! Who wouldn’t?
I’ve been known to be unabashedly blunt, but of course always right. DEI is the process of hiring simple minded knaves at the expense of competent and qualified artisans. Worse, it instills a sense of unearned entitlement in those who “Didn’t Earn It.” It is a cancer metastasizing through the ranks of work forces given grave responsibilities, and it spreads to the point where no one in an organization has the work ethic or skill to change a light bulb.
As bad as DEI is, what’s worse is the political class that initiates DEI policies. There should never ever be any reason to vote anybody into office that has not had a career in real world practicalities. Community activists, academics, government apparatchiks, non-profit do-gooders, clinicians, blah, blah, they generally know nothing other than the au courant platitudes of the bougie Bolshevik chattering class. In Richmond, 8 of our 9 council members are women, and the one man is a soy boy. Have any of these folks ever crawled under a house to fix a leaky pipe, changed the oil in a car, operated earth moving equipment or walked a police officer’s beat at 2 am in the morning? Have any of them started a business from the ground up and hired and fired dozens of employees? No. Yesterday, I ran into my friend Frank. He runs a small independent HVAC company. Frank understands how things work. Cities need guys like Frank to run them as opposed to purple haired social justice Sallyboys. "
"Los Angeles is burning down. The government incompetence there is extraordinary. LA has its own DEI problems. Its fire chief was hired because she is an outspoken lesbian. Her initiative has been to hire more women and LGBTQ firefighters. Yep, I want a 99 lb mentally ill woman who thinks she’s man pulling me out of a burning fire! Who wouldn’t?
I’ve been known to be unabashedly blunt, but of course always right. DEI is the process of hiring simple minded knaves at the expense of competent and qualified artisans. Worse, it instills a sense of unearned entitlement in those who “Didn’t Earn It.” It is a cancer metastasizing through the ranks of work forces given grave responsibilities, and it spreads to the point where no one in an organization has the work ethic or skill to change a light bulb.
As bad as DEI is, what’s worse is the political class that initiates DEI policies. There should never ever be any reason to vote anybody into office that has not had a career in real world practicalities. Community activists, academics, government apparatchiks, non-profit do-gooders, clinicians, blah, blah, they generally know nothing other than the au courant platitudes of the bougie Bolshevik chattering class. In Richmond, 8 of our 9 council members are women, and the one man is a soy boy. Have any of these folks ever crawled under a house to fix a leaky pipe, changed the oil in a car, operated earth moving equipment or walked a police officer’s beat at 2 am in the morning? Have any of them started a business from the ground up and hired and fired dozens of employees? No. Yesterday, I ran into my friend Frank. He runs a small independent HVAC company. Frank understands how things work. Cities need guys like Frank to run them as opposed to purple haired social justice Sallyboys. "
"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed"
I don't see anyplace in the US that is worthy of a gulch. Governments and banksters are taxing/indebting everyone into slavery.
Without a complete change the intelligent young people will be seeking a better life elsewhere.
Second, why should there be ANY increase at all on the theft by the state of your earnings without your contractual consent?
Q: What happens if you move to a different house?
A: You are shafted by the state with higher theft (aka taxes.)
Are you saying that the high taxes are ok if they don't affect someone until they move or only affects people moving to FL?
I understand that you are stuck with (and enslaved by) the theft, JB, but why are you defending it?
So you sell for $550k and buy another for $550k, your new taxes are based on 550k less homestead (not what you paid in 1998 plus llimited 3%.)
The $50k maximum homestead is a much smaller % exemption on the new higher assessment.
This also raises the taxes on the house you sold for the new buyer. State wins; you lose.
You get shafted if you move or if you move into FL. The state enslaves you economically to your current location.
Lastly $250 a month stolen by your enemies is no bargain, imo, and the theft will be much higher for both your new home and the buyer of your house.
The local government "expert" always wins regardless of rational thought.
Doesn't matter if your property needs 100k in repairs either; the %^&*
revenooers must have a few pounds of your flesh to justify their illegitimate jobs.
This is a great article describing a rot Ayn Rand understood, but wrote about it using different terms. AS comes alive in the USA!