Gov. Jerry Brown, whose pronouncements of California’s economic recovery have been criticized by Republicans who point out the state’s high poverty rate, said in a radio interview Wednesday that poverty and the large number of people looking for work are “really the flip side of California’s incredible attractiveness and prosperity.” The Democratic governor’s remarks aired the same day the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 23.8 percent of Californians live in poverty under an alternative calculation that includes the cost of living. Asked on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” about two negative indicators — the state’s nation-high poverty rate and the large number of Californians who are unemployed or marginally employed and looking for work — Brown said, “Well, that’s true, because California is a magnet. “People come here from all over in the world, close by from Mexico and Central America and farther out from Asia and the Middle East. So, California beckons, and people come. And then, of course, a lot of people who arrive are not that skilled, and they take lower paying jobs. And that reflects itself in the economic distribution.” Cal Political News
Still the Catholic all these years. We are poor because it is great to be poor! My job is to look for the forces of negative growth that have brought America to bankruptcy. I claim that the center of the negative force was a dangerous political black hole in Sacramento. Here we have exactly the evidence I need, Jerry Brown, a whistle blower who admits to negative growth.
So latinos, you are poor because it makes lilly white liberals feel rich.
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