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And they wonder why South California wants to secede…

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 1st, 2011 at 10:06 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

…from the Sacramento regime:

Under AB 889, household “employers” (aka “parents”) who hire a babysitter on a Friday night will be legally obligated to pay at least minimum wage to any sitter over the age of 18 (unless it is a family member), provide a substitute caregiver every two hours to cover rest and meal breaks, in addition to workers’ compensation coverage, overtime pay, and a meticulously calculated timecard/paycheck.

Failure to abide by any of these provisions may result in a legal cause of action against the employer including cumulative penalties, attorneys’ fees, legal costs and expenses associated with hiring expert witnesses, an unprecedented measure of legal recourse provided no other class of workers – from agricultural laborers to garment manufacturers.

Via Vodkapundit (H/T AoSHQ).  I have a suggestion for anybody in California who, upon reading this bit of nonsense – or any of the other six billion reasons why one might decide that California was more trouble than it’s worth – decides to move: voting with your feet is, in fact, a fine old American tradition.  But do whatever red state that you end up moving to a favor, OK?

REMEMBER WHY YOU LEFT CALIFORNIA IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

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  • izoneguy

    In Plano TX…..

    at 9 PM it was still 98 degrees….

    and every 10th license plate was from CA.

    They are not here because of the balmy climate.

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

    nt

  • acat

    Of course, there are a lot less Chicagoans …. at least employed ones these days…

    Illinois: bleeding jobs

    And the real estate market still sucks.

    Thanks, Democrats!

    Mew

  • izoneguy

    I saw a few from Alaska the other day…

    Lots of Maryland & New York & Florida.

  • http://www.usdebateboard.com usdebateboard

    but the vehicle registration costs in TX are a steal compared to CA. Many more have probably already renounced their pricey CA vehicle registrations.

    So there are even more ex-pats than you can count license plates.

  • pttx333

    I paid $64.25 this week to renew the TX registration on my SUV. I recall a friend in Oklahoma saying that they pay several hundred dollars, depending on the age of your vehicle – we pay according to the weight. That was a few years ago – don’t know what Okies pay these days. Unbelievable.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Be careful what you’re saying. Some of us are stuck here, okay?

  • http://www.usdebateboard.com usdebateboard

    The unsustainable nanny state will collapse here someday soon. When it does, there will be opportunities again.

  • pttx333

    floor to start anew! Nothing wrong with that. In fact, the whole nation may be going through the same thing if we don’t begin the turn-around soon!

  • westcoastpatriette

    Just never thought we would sink this low. It is not the California I grew up in.

  • westcoastpatriette

    .

  • runner12

    in Oklahoma recently. They lowered the prices a while back I think.

  • acat

    It’s not the Californians who are staying and fighting who are the problem, it’s the refugees from the economic war who are turning around and swamping the States they’re landing in.

    To quote a bro from further up the west coast, though .. “I’m getting tired of seeing Californians trying to cram their humvee sized lifestyles and all their drama into our city”.

    Besides, y’all have Neil, iirc, and Zombie so .. plenty of good fight left.

    Mew

  • http://www.usdebateboard.com usdebateboard

    Not $45,000 plug-ins or strap ons, or whatever you do with them.

    Oh, the irony.

  • acat

    (thought I should mention that)

  • pttx333

    I was wondering because OK has always been a conservative state for the most part. Didn’t know if it was some kind of short-term fee or what? Maybe so, since it has been lowered. Good for OK!

  • http://www.usdebateboard.com usdebateboard

    and legally, natch.

    So, for me, the motivation to eschew buyer’s remorse is pretty strong, since I chose this fight, as it were.

  • runner12

    it was 102 in Oklahoma today. I know it is hot around here in the summer, but this is getting ridiculous.

    One amusing thing I found when I visited AZ in college was that you must be very careful when sunning yourself there. In the South, you can use the humidity to kind of gauge how hot you are getting. Not so in AZ. Let’s just say I turned lobster red and I received an excellent lesson in the differences in climate and that re- application of sunscreen is your friend.

  • westcoastpatriette

    I know it’s been a long day but who are Neil, iirc, Zombie and NSFW? Remember, I’m new here.

  • pttx333

    like going to work for a new company, they’re successful and since you were on the ground floor you rise with them. Look on the positive side – that is what I TRY to do. Sometimes it fails, though. LOL

  • acat

    The Tech At Night guy. Front page author, moderator. Neil.

    Zombie is the host of the Zombie Time blog, and is an anonymous documentor of the comings and goings of the hard left in San Francisco. Zombie is hard to read, in part because it’s difficult to accept that the beings she documents are .. people. So much hate, so much willful ignorance. Zombie is, somehow, able to get it all on film.

    NSFW is an acronym for “Not Safe For Work”, meaning “if you open this page at work, you may find images that would get you fired”.

    I recommend reading Zombie but .. not at work, and .. like Ace of Spades, it’s not for everyone….

    Mew

  • westcoastpatriette

    nt

  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil truth

    State of Illinois Pays Violent Offenders and Sex Criminals to Baby-sit Children

    The newest product of a government stimulus program, I suppose.

  • Menlo

    Why do I have a hunch the proposal does NOT include mandatory verification of a worker’s legal status?

    As to the title, I’m not sure how many people are aware that Southern California actually DID try to secede back in the 1800′s, and the state even approved it; but Congress failed to take up the measure.

  • acat

    (g’night)

  • westcoastpatriette

    ..

  • Menlo

    I’ve visited Death Valley in June and Palm Springs in July. It depends on what part of California. Of course the desert winds do make 125 degrees more bearable.

    I suspect the cheap land has a lot to do with it. Houses in this area are affordable, and the prices never seem to go up with demand.

  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil truth

    …that is, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

    That goes double for too many of the voters, who keep voting for the same failed leaders.

    In a state as large as California, if the marquee leader of the CA Democratic party is Jerry Brown, then something is very stagnant with the political establishment here indeed.

    Which is why they don’t have anything better to do than to occupy every part of our house more and more, except the bedroom – though history proves the left always become oppressive against sex in the end, which is the crowning irony.

  • lastgopinillinois

    I read a news article that said CA had passed an immigration law of their own, but theirs INCLUDED an 0bama-like “Dream-Act” in it. The Bill reportedly is waiting for Gov Brown to sign it.
    So now there are five states that have a Arizona-style enforcement law, then Utah has a law with a guest worker program in it.
    There are some other States that have liberal immigration laws but I dont know which States and dont know if they have passed yet.
    It would be nice if the Federal govt would just enforce the law. All these individual laws have got to be costing the State taxpayers plenty, not to mention the upcoming litigation

  • Menlo

    I don’t know about Oklahoma, but I believe Texas spends more per capita on roads than California does.

    Regardless, the state’s infrastructure is woefully inadequate to keep up with the demand. I’m not sure what the solution is, but I suspect the people running TxDOT are incompetent and may be living in a bubble.

    I really wish they would tax those road hogs. The unsightly vans, BIG trucks, and SUVs seem to grow bigger and more numerous every day. People buy lots of them, they needlessly take up too much space, and they block the view of other drivers.

  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil truth

    …mean the same thing.

  • pttx333

    but traditionally they had/have the most terrible roads. I was born there and had many relatives there, but most are gone now.

    Texas has really good roads for the most part. Even the FM roads are better than Oklahoma’s highways. Or they were – like I say, they may have made great strides in recent years, but for decades it was the same old thing year after year. And I’m not even remotely knocking Oklahoma – it is a beautiful state, except for the Panhandle, and has much to offer. Really nice people, too.

  • Menlo

    The problem here in Texas, certainly around Dallas, is urban sprawl. I can’t imagine a more extreme version of it anywhere in the world. It’s a nightmare, and something seriously needs to be done to contain it.

  • runner12

    Statistically, our rural roads are very poor. Some of our highways in Oklahoma are rough too, but are undergoing massive repair right now.

    Texas does have nice roads. But I do not think people here would like the massively stacked highways seen in Dallas/Ft. Worth. It would drive them nuts. Correction, it DOES drive them nuts; along with the need for speed in that area.

    This is not to knock our neighbors to the South at all. People love visiting that area, but the traffic is awful and the driving is worse.

  • http://www.usdebateboard.com usdebateboard

    What type and size of stick do you want to give government to accomplish THAT?

  • acat

    The stick is the gas tax.

    And I’ve driven in Dallas. I found it much more pleasant than driving in D.C.

    Mew

  • Menlo

    Government does have a role in reducing the growing traffic congestion, and I would assume there are many alternatives for accomplishing that.

    I would assume government would need no new sticks, just a redirection of a few of the ones they already have.

  • pttx333

    “Baja Oklahoma.” They had such a great sense of humor.

    You are correct, the difference in Texas and Oklahoma is in the pace of life – if you are comparing big Texas cities to OK. But there are many parts of Texas that would be terrorized by the freeway spaghettit bowls, traffic, urban sprawl, etc. in the cities. I have lived in the Houston area for a long time except for a 4-year respite to the Hill Country, and it gets to me sometimes also. Guess I have sort of a love/hate relationship with Houston, because I chose to return. ;-)

  • JX12

    That’s key. And it puzzles me no end to ponder why people flee a state with policies they can’t abide, only to vote for people who will turn their new state into what their old state was. I can’t prove that this is what has been happening with CA transplants in AZ over the last decade or so, but AZ has gone decidedly purple during that time, and I’m not sure how else to explain it.