Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2014 (26. évfolyam, 1-39. szám)

2014-02-28 / 9. szám

Pope Francis, the Immorality of California’s Unemployment and the Brown-Newsom Administration’s Refusal to Cure It By ERNIE KÖNNYŰ, Retired Member, U.S. Congress This week, Pope Francis declared in his pre-Lenten message that sometimes “unjust social conditions” like unemployment lead to destitution by depriving people of the dignity of work “In such cases, moral destitution can be considered ...impending suicide.” Unknowingly, Pope Francis could have been talking about the California’s people suffering from unemployment and poverty. The Pope called on Christians to actually touch poverty and make it our own. www.boston.com/news/world/Europe/ 2014/02/04/pope-unjust-unemployment-can-mean-sin-suicide. I am doing that here. Let’s take a look at unemployment and poverty in California and rightly address both as Republicans. I spent six years of my life as Vice Chairman of the California Legislature’s committee on welfare so I can knowledgeably recommend ways to improve the lot of our Californians. The unemployment rate of Californians accord­ing to the U.S. Dept, of Labor was 8.3% as of this past December, ranking an abysmal 47th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Hispanic unem­ployment rate was projected 26% higher for California (using the National Hispanic unemployment rate differential) The National unemployment rate at the same time was a much lower 6.7%. (www. bls.gov/news. release /empsit. nrO. hint) If we look further, we find that our California Hispanics earn less pay per capita and suffer 26 % higher unemployment rate. (Bureau of Labor statistics National unemployment rate over Hispanic (www.bls.gov/ news.release/empsit. t03.htm) And we have all this immoral unemployment under a Catholic Democrat Governor Jerry Brown and Catholic Democrat Lt. Governor Gavin Newsome who repeatedly claim support for the poor and unemployed. Our statewide Republican constitutional candidates should campaign to REDEEM California’s unem­ployed from their heavy economic burden. They should establish jobs creation programs through business incentivized by state and local government. Following are some examples. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-New York) has a 2013 law for new businesses that gives the first 10 years of businesses a tax forgiveness to help create new jobs. California should promise to match this law using money saved by not spending wastefully AB 31 tax dollars or on denying the bullet train from funding. Basically, New York state has created a law that offers no taxes for NEW businesses for 10 years. (See for details https://www.governor . ny.gov/sites/default/files/documents/GPB32-START- UP-NY-MEMO.pdf ) Here is a great bi-partisan idea adopted from a Democratic governor that could really help California’s unemployed and underemployed especially Hispanics. This program adoption would really help especially the 26% higher unemployed Hispanics. In Texas the biggest payoff came from reducing burdens on business to create new energy jobs at the same time that California held back on fracking and oil shale jobs as if America did not need more domestic oil. So, Texas jobs creation resulted in a 6.0% state unemployment rate instead of California’s tragic 8.3% rate. South Dakota has jobs going begging because fracking their shale oil formations has brought its citizens work and their unemployment rate is 3.6%. Instead of all that, California ignored jobs creation and spent new taxes on utopian dreams on the environment. California’s state government should work to lift the economic standing of all Californians. In other words adopt the economic growth mode suggested by Dr. Art Laffer in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) study. (See http://www.alec.org/publications/rich-states-poor-states/ For California see http://www.alec.org/wp-content/uploads/CA.pdf). A good place to start would be California oil production from tar sands in the Bakersfield and Monterey fields. This information is the key to the California oppor­tunity to improve our state. Yes! IJnemnlovment and novertv are thriving in California under the Brown / Newsome administra­tion. Sadly they are doing us in by busily squandering our tax dollars by the hundreds of millions. For example, they try to prevent global warming through billions of dollars of AB 31 tax increases on our utilities. How? They enforce instead of amend out existing state law to buy so called carbon credits. That raises our energy costs in most California homes and businesses. Just last December alone, according to the Sacramento Bee, $297 million in carbon credits were auctioned off by the state and there is more to come. Yet, they can’t find a single group of scientists that claim AB 31 dollars will cure global or even California warming...not one tenth of a degree. Brown / Newsom and the Democrats say they are just doing the right thing. In reply let me again declare that Brown / Newsom wasted AB31 tax billions won’t cure a damn thing. The U.S. Census Bureau said more than 16% of the population lived in poverty in the United States, including almost 20% of American children, up from 14.3% (approximately 43.6 million) in 2009 and to its highest level since 1993. In 2008, 13.2% (39.8 million) Americans lived in poverty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_ States Our Brown/Newsom led California has a poverty rate of 23.5%, the highest of any state in the country. I believe that level of poverty meets the Pope Francis test of being downright immoral. The Brown / Newsom people brag about their tons of California run welfare programs...yes; those two are good at making the poor more comfortable in their misery. They give them cash grants, section 8 housing, free medical care, food stamps and so on. By not giving them the jobs they desperately desire so they can climb the economic ladder the immoral Brown / Newsome team have set the people up to dump them if our candidates can get the truth out. Ernie Könnyű, Republican of San Jose, is a Hungarian immi­grant, a retired Air Force Major and former member of the Cali­fornia State Assembly and the U.S. Congress. Könnyű chaired for two years the Assembly Republican Policy Committee and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Republican Confer­ence Policy Committee. He and his wife, Lillian, are Catholics and just celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary on November 28th. 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