California isn’t called the Golden State for nothing. It has a long history of gold diggers coming to the state expecting to get rich at public expense.
It isn’t just gold. It’s land. It’s water. It’s federally subsidized industry. And it’s state taxpayers living beyond their means and then blaming a convenient scapegoat. The rest of the United States is expected to bail out California because Californians supposedly have a divine right not to live as frugally as Americans elsewhere.
Rich Californians routinely hire illegal immigrants to water their lawns, cook their meals, baby-sit their children, and wash their clothes. They then buy illegal drugs from street criminals. Then they rant and rave that their taxes are too high while demanding all the best publicly funded services for themselves. Then they get upset when neighborhoods of illegal immigrants and street gangs get too close. So, they leave to somewhere else in the West.
Then, these exiles will then insist upon hiring illegal immigrants to do the housework, buy illegal drugs from the street gangs, demand lower taxes to pay for police and schools, and then wonder why there’s a crime wave in their new town. So, they leave again, bringing their problems with them. People throughout the West have a word for this – Californication.
Los Angeles is big, powerful, and it takes whatever water and electricity it likes from elsewhere. And since “environmentalism” has taken hold, California insists upon exporting its pollution to other states. Even the dairy farms of Eastern New Mexico are a result of corporations evading Californian environmental codes. When coal-burning plants are built elsewhere, they are called “jobs”. When coal-burning plants are built in California, they are called “pollution”.
Illegal aliens?? Illegal aliens aren’t the problem California is facing. No, they are the effect of a bunch of rich Californians who can’t bring themselves to do without the goods and services that illegal immigrants and street gangs deliver. If illegal immigrants didn’t have such a ready market for their services, they wouldn’t be here. If drug gangs didn’t have a ready market for their products, they would just be a bunch of low down punks.
No, it is rich Californians who are causing one problem after another and then expecting the rest of the United States to wipe their rear ends. If you want to stop illegal immigration, tell rich Californians to take care of their own children instead of fobbing off childcare to some stranger named Maria. If you want to stop illegal immigration, tell rich Californians to stop watering their lawns and then expecting some stranger named Jesus to cut the grass. If you want to lower the crime rate, hire more police and expect them to arrest rich people who want to get high. Even better, tax every marijuana joint to the skies and earmark that money for midnight basketball.
It’s easy for Californians to blame the Chinese, or blame the Mexicans, or blame the El Salvadorans. But there is no getting around the fact that rich Californians insist upon both labeling people by race and playing races off against one another, all the while acting so self-indulgently that their civilization crumbles as fast as it gets built. Illegal immigrants exist because rich Californians want them here. If they didn’t hire illegal immigrants, those immigrants would leave this country. So perhaps it isn’t the barrios that are the problem. Perhaps it is in the neighborhoods of ranch-style mansions for rich executives with their coke parties.
So the next time we hear any more complaints against illegal immigrants, let’s crack down on their rich employers.
