“To impose a new burden on fast-food restaurants, the state plans to ignore the constitution’s right of voters to review laws.”
George Rebane
California suffers a continuous stream of social, economic, and political disasters. All of these are formulated, brought to bear, and implemented by the state’s virulently anti-American Democratic Party. Most of the public policy tragedies arrive unknown and unannounced to the state’s shrinking share of maker residents. The takers don’t care since they know that all the wealth transfer programs, no matter how scurrilous, all go to buy and pay for their votes.
The latest of these promises an historic change in how California’s referenda will now be treated. Slated to go into effect tomorrow (1jan23) – “The law creates a state council to dictate wages, working conditions and benefits, among other things, for fast-food workers who aren’t unionized. The law is intended to coerce fast-food franchises to surrender to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).” (here)
What’s different is that this law was passed late in the legislative session to deny Californians any reasonable review of the matter. However, an astute watchdog organization, Save Local Restaurants, has gathered over a million signatures on a petition opposing the referendum and filed it with the state. According to California’s constitution “a law is required to be put on hold once a referendum petition with enough signatures is filed.”
The constitution is very specific about this 1911 amendment which reserves “to the people the power to pass judgment upon the acts of the legislature, and to prevent objectionable measures from taking effect.” Once a referendum is filed, “no such act or section or part of such act shall go into effect until and unless approved by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon.”
The state is ignoring its constitution, and has stated it will “temporarily” implement the law until the signatures are verified, a task that will be completed sometime in October 2023. At that time the law will either be withdrawn or made permanent. Such an unconstitutional, temporarily-in-effect provision has never been attempted before.
If allowed to stand, this legislative tactic – passing bills late in the legislative calendar in order to limit their opponents’ ability to stop them from taking effect - will become yet another tool and precedent for our monopoly political party to continue its destruction of California. Sleazebags on parade.
The only remaining hope on this is an order by a state judge prohibiting enforcement of the law until a hearing is held in two weeks. Else “businesses would have to temporarily comply even though the laws may be later suspended once signatures are verified and eventually overturned by voters.” So it is no surprise that we continue to witness large numbers of our businesses and people vote with their feet by leaving California.
Enduring Impact of Imported Cultures
George Rebane
As we anticipate the horrendous impact of abandoning Title 42 for managing the current tsunami of illegal aliens crossing our southern border, George Mason University economics professor Garett Jones comes out with The Culture Transplant (2022), a major essay on the enduring impact of cultures brought in by America’s immigrants. In the book review (here) we read –
… cultural traits can persist for generations after migrants arrive in a new country. Newcomers don’t simply assimilate to their new homes; as the book’s subtitle puts it, they “make the economies they move to a lot like the ones they left.” It’s a thesis that is at once highly provocative and a restatement of common sense: Poorly chosen immigrants can undermine a country’s success; cultures don’t disappear when people move from place to place.
A point long made in these pages, the presentation of this research underlines the damage, not only possible, but to be anticipated from the hordes of millions of illegals that have been released with no effective controls into all corners of our land. More ominously –
… even after four generations in the U.S., immigrants continue to hold attitudes toward trust that are significantly influenced by their home countries. On a host of other matters, such as family, abortion and the role of government, fourth-generation immigrants on average converge only about 60% of the way to the national norm. “Overall,” Mr. Jones contends, “that low level of conformity is a bad sign, unless you think most immigrants come from countries with better political attitudes than Americans currently have.”
The bottom line is that immigrants from bad and backward countries don’t leave their cultures behind. They continue to embrace and practice them here, especially when they gather in ethnically homogenous enclaves. The resulting disunity impedes the falsely touted assimilation, and gives lie to the progressives’ chant that ‘Our diversity is our strength.’ In this shibboleth Jones writes “you’re hearing the cultural equivalent of second marriages: a triumph of hope over experience.” As demonstrated over the centuries, first and foremost, people like to live with their own kind, no matter where they locate.
In this work Prof Jones has introduced a migration-adjusted SAT (state, agriculture, technology) score which usefully predicts the assimilation attributes of our immigrant ethnicities – e.g. predicts more than 60% of modern day income differences between the groups as derived from their countries of origin. It turns out that the technology component of SAT is the most impactive. Correlating with their home countries -
Technology also seems to be the best long-run predictor of government quality. So the main story seems to be about technological development persisting over time, and of people bringing their technological capabilities to new places.
Continuing to allow uncontrolled entry of millions of illegals portends a cultural and existential disaster for America – “These concerns are immediate and tangible, not preoccupied with the effect of immigration generations from now. To address some of the more compelling worries, we might start placing greater emphasis on skills, perhaps implementing a points system, as Australia, Canada and the U.K. do, to grade potential immigrants.”
But first and foremost, to implement any of these factors into an immigration policy that sustains America, we have to secure our borders. This is also understood by our neo-Marxist and anti-American elites who will fight tooth and nail to maintain our borders in their current dysfunctional state that promotes, nay invites, the uncontrolled invasion by millions of illegals who will implant their own counter-cultures in this fair land.
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