Newsom Gives New Meaning To Grim Reaper?

Ca Gov Newsom often calls republicans “authoritarians” yet keeps thumb on his residents with enough “emergency” decrees to enter the Guinness Book of Records. Covid, Wildfires, Global Warming, Droughts …

“It’s always something else … in the name of public safety and out of an abundance of caution,” noted the opinion piece in Fox News by John Cox. He says the state’s tsunami of mandates is really happening because “the governor clearly wants to keep the kind of power that accelerated during the pandemic years … Newsom knows that any emergency decree quickly steps up control over citizens, creating additional government power while the people lose more of theirs.”

Ah, but there’s also gold in them thar California hills, Mr. Cox, also suggested: “It’s also said that the emergencies are needed to get more federal money to the state … Invoking constant emergency powers is also an easy way to mask growing deficits. In the first year of the pandemic, California received so much money from Washington that it appeared the state had a surplus … [but] … Now that the Uncle Sam cash has gone away … California is now facing a nearly $24 billion budget deficit this year, which doesn’t count the huge unfunded liabilities for state employee pensions & health care.” Ah, but can’t Uncle Joe be counted on to again come to the rescue of Gov. Moonbeam II’s “too big to fail state”?

Davd Soul