Crowdifornia 2008
By http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4737
Not so long ago—before the Immigration Profligacy Act of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3402 took hold, and before Washington decided to stop enforcing the law against illegal aliens—California was Eden, even for average folks.
The late demographer Meredith Burke wrote in The Union Sells Out The Little Man—and the Nation [San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 2000 about the life her parents had in post-war Los Angeles:
‘My father’s long workweek earned him about $25-30 in 1938 when he and my mother married and perhaps $65-70 in the postwar era. On this he and my mother were able to buy into the American dream. They could afford the $58 monthly payments on a three-bedroom stucco bungalow house. Sundays we enjoyed drives to near-by San Gabriel Valley farms and orchards or a day at an uncrowded, unpolluted beach. My mother used to say, thanking God, ‘Where else can working folk live like this?’
“…The low cost of living, the unparalleled beauty of the natural setting my father’s generation enjoyed were benefits conferred by a sustainable population base. In 1940, the country had 132 million people; http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4927, 7 million people. By 1950, the nation’s 150 million and California’s 10 million people were both butting up against ecological limits. Yet land for postwar housing tracts was cheap; one merely had to convert nearby farmland. Long Island and San Gabriel Valley farms alike vanished.”The speed at which postwar California has been paved over for dubious progress and substantial profit has been breathtaking. California is full and getting fuller, but They Keep Coming—everyone on earth, or so it appears. The Golden State is losing its luster to many—but not enough. As a result, the state’s population is expected to pass 40 million in 2012 and exceed 50 million by 2032.
http://www.vdare.com/walker/080527_crowdifornia.htm