Secretary of HUD with Governor of California. July 13, 2022. Photo by HUD.
“Schools Serve as a Prison Pipeline”
Gavin Newsom is about to begin his 2nd term as governor of California. After a ”painstakingly choreographed” inauguration, Newsom is looking to discharge a gaggle of new laws that will expand government power and limit freedom, reports (in NRO) Will Swaim, president of California Policy Center.
Among Gavin Newsom’s initiatives:
- punish doctors who spread “false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care.”
- make $223,000 payments to the descendants of slaves, but Newsom offers nothing to fix a public-education system that his own reparations commission says has failed black kids so badly that it serves as a “school to prison pipeline,” (according to Newsom’s own reparation commission).
- ratchet up environmental regulations on gasoline; when fuel prices spike, he calls for an investigation into “price-gouging” by the oil industry.
Taking Down California’s Electric Grid
Commanding Californians to buy electric autos, Newsom then begs them not to charge them for fear of taking down the state’s electric grid.
Damn Dams
Water shortages, claims Newsom, are due to climate change in a state that, in order to appease environmentalists, “hasn’t built a dam, reservoir, or aqueduct in 40 years,” reminds Mr. Swaim.
- Another new law will force hundreds of thousands of fast-food workers into a government-controlled union they didn’t ask for — and will likely lead to job-killing automation and the concentration of fast-food restaurants into fewer and fewer hands.
- As you read this, Newsom’s Assembly Bill 5 is destroying 70,000 nonunion trucking firms.
- Another law will grant sanctuary to transgender kids from other states, even over the objections of their parents.
- Another new law bans “disruptive” speech in public meetings — a law aimed at frustrated parents who begged the governor to reopen their schools.
- In order to produce gender equity, there’s a new law that sets prices on consumer goods designed for women.
- Another law requires corporations with at least 15 employees to publish their pay scales.
- And while taxpayer-funded abortions for everyone might sound like freedom to some, nobody asked the unborn — and if those babies want a voice and a choice, let them get a union.
Making Life More Difficult
“Everything this state government does comes with the promise to produce social justice and the certainty that life will in fact become more difficult for everyday Californians,” charges Mr. Swaim.
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