From: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 8/6/24 11:31, Governor Swill wrote:   
   > On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 21:50:28 -0700, Bobbie Sellers    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 8/5/24 19:55, Governor Swill wrote:   
   >>> On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 22:49:19 -0700, Bill Pfister  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> The problem is Pelosi and Newsom. Those two have done more to ruin   
   >>>> California than any other politicians.   
   >>>   
   >>> You say that, but you never say why.  You can never point to specific laws   
   and policies   
   >>> attributable to them that caused whatever issue you're railing about.   
   >>>   
   >>> #nevertrump   
   >>   
   >> /S   
   >>   
   >> 	Yes well neither prevented the housing crisis in affordability nor   
   >> solved the homeless problem. They also failed to reinforce all the   
   >> dams, bridges and highways in California against the horrible weather   
   >> of climate change. They did not totally solve the pollution due to   
   >> fracking or shut down the  Methane leaks near Los Angeles.   
   >   
   > Much better, thank you for being on the ball!  That said, these issues are   
   happening all   
   > across the country so they're not California specific.   
   >   
   >> 	They especially Newsom failed to overcome the pumping   
   >> of water from the aquifer of the Central Valley which has   
   >> provided the water to replace water sent to Southern California   
   >> to fill the swimming pools of the residents of exclusive   
   >> neighborhoods.   
   >   
   > Too much money to fight.  Interestingly, a lot of big ag companies buy/farm   
   land less for   
   > the food production profits than for the right to pump and sell from aquifer.   
   >   
   >> 	The could not figure out a way to beat Trump in 2016.   
   >   
   > Trump won in 2016 on a fluke, a clever management of the EC by the RNC.   
   >   
   >> Of course Pelosi was a congressional representative and not   
   >> doing much in California and Newsom was just the successor   
   >> to Jerry Brown who served non-consequentially 8 terms in total   
   >> 4 in my youth and 4 in my old age. He did not make many bad   
   >> decisions and his career was only marred by the idea that   
   >>   he was a good fiscally conservative Democrat.  Which   
   >> was the only real problem with Newsom and with Pelosi.   
   >>   
   >> 	But those are negligible problems.   
   >>   
   >> 	What has done the most to ruin California was real estate   
   >> promotions in the 20th Century and property speculation especially   
   >> in the San Francisco area. Someone failed to prevent WW II and as   
   >> a result many troops got to visit California and did their best   
   >> to move here bringing along racist attitudes from where ever they   
   >> came from. Then they had children raised them to adulthood and   
   >> they had more children and that is the root of the problems   
   >> of California. Too many of us love it though with the Global   
   >> Heating it may become much less attractive. Not to say we   
   >> did not have plenty of California grown racists already. The worst   
   >> prejudice I saw in my childhood was directed at immigrants from   
   >> other US States mainly Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas.   
   >   
   > So we come to your last paragraph where you say without equivocation, that   
   California's   
   > biggest problems had nothing to do with Pelosi or Newsom.  You blame them on   
   events that   
   > happened three quarters of a century ago, to times before either of them was   
   born.  Don't   
   > forget the massive dust bowl migration to California in the nineteen   
   thirties.   
   >   
   > #nevertrump   
      
   	I do not leave out the Dust Bowl migration and maybe my father was part   
   of it. He died in 1939 when I was only 2 and 1/3 years old so   
   I never got to question him about his life he was a WW I veteran.   
   I remember his burial in the National Cemetary at the Presidio of   
   San Francisco on cold and goggy day My mother was murdered in   
   1983 and is now on the other side of his headstone. They identified   
   the murderer recently and he may go to trial later this year. He   
   was already in prison for I think attemped murder but is not   
   confined to a wheelchair.   
      
   	Father was work working as a cook/restaurant owner   
   in Project City as Shasta Dam was being built.  My mother   
   met my Stepfather as the both worked on the sandwich line   
   for the workers.   
   	My mother's Father never held  a job in my memory   
   but took care of me while Mom was working and I remember him   
   escorting me across town in Redding or Chico to nursery or   
   kindergarten run by Catholic nuns.  We had to wait at a   
   railway crossing as trains crammed with American troops   
   went by.   
   	At that time Mom, I and my Grandfather were living   
   in a boarding house and I early on developed my distinctive   
   "Boarding House reach".   
   	So while I forget a lot of tiny details still   
   I remember a lot about my childhood in Northern California.   
   Including frosty mugs of Root Beer sold out of a window on a   
   busy street.   
   	Oh and about drugs we knew very little but avoided   
   them until about 38 years later aside from alcohol.   
      
   bliss - Leo with Leo rising born in the year of the Ox.   
   which makes me somthing like griffin.   
      
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