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There are a number of strange events that have developed around all the fires in California over the last 8 years. First let’s be clear the state of California is as broke as a joke. The state is nearly $2 billion in debt and the debt is growing. Bloomberg reports: “According to a January 2017 study, “California state and local governments owe$1.3 trillion as of June 30, 2015.” The study was based on “a review of federal, state and local financial disclosures.” In other words, that $1.3 trillion in debt is the amount to which California governments admit.Apr 19, 2018″ The state cannot sustain this level of debt and everyone in the financial world knows California is headed into a steep recession in the near future.

For the past 30 years California has been able to use accounting tricks to keep itself afloat. Simple reshuffling of budget categories at first lead to massive tax increases over the years and now the state following years of social justice warrior activist engagement has ballooned spending to the point where it strips away billions from infrastructure repair and replacement to spend over $26 billion per year on illegal foreign nationals. As California crumbles its overwhelmed by humanity and after all these new people need free money and services don’t they?.

Enter Disaster Capitalism. To save the day for the mono party socialists in Sacramento

In the book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalismis a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of “shock therapy“. This centers on the exploitation of national crises to push through controversial policies while citizens are too emotionally and physically distracted by disasters or upheavals to mount an effective resistance. The book suggests that some man-made events, such as the Iraq War, were undertaken with the intention of pushing through such unpopular policies in their wake. Some reviewers criticized the book for making what they viewed as simplifications of political phenomena, while others lauded it as a compelling and important work.

Klein writes:

“This strategy has been a silent partner to the imposition of neoliberalism for more than 40 years. Shock tactics follow a clear pattern: wait for a crisis (or even, in some instances, as in Chile or Russia, help foment one), declare a moment of what is sometimes called “extraordinary politics”, suspend some or all democratic norms – and then ram the corporate wishlist through as quickly as possible. The research showed that virtually any tumultuous situation, if framed with sufficient hysteria by political leaders, could serve this softening-up function. It could be an event as radical as a military coup, but the economic shock of a market or budget crisis would also do the trick. Amid hyperinflation or a banking collapse, for instance, the country’s governing elites were frequently able to sell a panicked population on the necessity for attacks on social protections, or enormous bailouts to prop up the financial private sector – because the alternative, they claimed, was outright economic apocalypse”.

While Klein feels President Trump is using such a tactic now the clear winner in the shock doctrine race is California’s Governor Jerry Brown. As all socialist know you must have other peoples money to sustain yourself. For California the money pot is the federal government.