The Golden State is already cracking under the influence of the country's largest homeless population and one of the worst economic climates post-COVID-19. With millions of middle-class residents and business owners leaving to red states, those left behind have noticed a burgeoning lower class emerge.
Gasoline is pushing $5 a gallon, 18 million homeless pack into all the blue cities, and dilapidated freeways are covered with garbage.
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Even the Atlantic outlined the hostile economic environment in a lengthy article called “The California Dream is Dying.”
It’s against this backdrop that Newsom held a press conference Monday promising $12 billion to fight homelessness on top of billions that have already been spent. People will be taken care of, and anyone who wants to avail themselves of the California dream is welcome, he explained in response to a reporter who questioned whether he expected the country's homeless to fall upon California with this new expenditure.
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“It’s about getting people off the streets, out of incidents of crisis, and meeting people where they are and to the extent that people want to come here for new beginnings and all income levels, that’s part of the California dream,” Newsom stated. “We have a responsibility to accommodate and enliven and inspire, and California’s dream is still alive and well.”
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Newsom went on: “I’m proud of people from around the world looking at California again for opportunity, and that, again, that should not just be for certain people. All people should aspire to that California dream regardless of their income level and regarding their lot in life.”
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California is the highest-taxed state in the country, and purchasing a home is out of reach for the average resident. Newsom did not mention this though rather pointed to an $80 billion budget surplus that he stated is enough money to help all get the American dream.
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva listened to Newsom’s message and was not pleased with what he heard.
“As a private citizen, I support the [Newsom] recall,” he said.
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Villanueva has tried to stand in the gap of rising crime and increased homelessness despite a $145 million “defund the police” cut to his budget in the current year.
“Those comments blew us away, we are trying to keep our heads above water, and he goes and says that?” Villanueva said. “When he invites the rest of the nation’s homeless to California, that is the death wish.”
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