Stand and Deliver...

Ben's response:

If you know so much why don't you say who you are? I put my money where my mouth is.

Sure, California may have a slightly diminished GDP per capita income.

There are many first generation immigrants there.

Press pause and wait to see how they are making out ten years from now. See how their children make out.

In America, the Jews (kikes) were poor, the Japanese (Nips) , the Chinese (Chinks) , the Indians from India (WOGs) , the Irish, (Micks) were all statisiclly poor. They ain't now. Some American Indians now fleece other Americans at "gaming" tables." Poetic justice.

So,too, were "the elderly" poor; poorest of any demographic age group. Thanks to the Safety Net State (SNS) they now have a higher median per capita income than the rest of the population.

That's bad?

Why?

I have gone out of my way to see slums, favelas, shanty towns --- all over the world. If not for humanitarian reasons then for practical and aesthetic ones: I don't want to step over frail old people, and see them break the bones of their own children so they can be better beggars.

Also, BTW: Poor people in America have more living space, more cars and more air conditioners than do Middle-Class Europeans. The Euros have more vacation time. Where do they go? Lots of them come to America, to see how the works, when it works pretty well.

Ben

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Some typos, or mis-speakings by me...":

A lot of nothing: no facts, data, statistics -- just opinion.

In contrast, here they project from data that per capita GDP will actually fall in California. Why? Here's why:

Growth in poorly educated population is blamed in study

Given current demographic and economic trends -- i.e. mass immigration of the unskilled and apparently uneducable, along with dwindling manufacturing and increasing outsourcing of middle class jobs -- if the population of the US does double sometime this century, large parts of America will resemble a third world slum.