Some reasons why Obama's Calif. Popularity is only 45%

[truedelphi]

This is cross posted over at GD. It is here through an invite from KamaAina.

Some reasons why Obama's Calif. Popularity is only 45%
At the top of the list would be the foreclosures that occurred inside the state of California between 2009 and 2011.

Here is some valuable research on what went on during the early years of the Obama Presidency:

http://www.responsiblelending.org/california/ca-mortgage/research-analysis/California-Foreclosure-Stats-April-2012.pdf

Bear in mind that even if your household did not go into foreclosure, much of the value of your home was lost. Since for over ten years, Californians had been told again and again that the best and safest place to invest their hard earned monies was the housing market, this was a serious blow to not only the activity of home ownership, but also reperesented wiping out many older people's hopes for a decent retirement income.

Another would be the secret deportation policy that was engineered between Governor Schwartzennegger and President Obama. This policy affected at least 100,000 individuals here in California. Even if you yourself were not deported, if a person you knew was, it altered your perception of the President. Here is one link that discusses the deportations, although it speaks of the situation in terms of the nation as a whole, and not jsut California. http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/12/us_deports_more_than_200k_parents.html

Also, the years of struggle to have medical marijuana dispensaries up and running was undone by Obama unleashing his DOJ appointee, Eric Holder, on the public. By early 2012, over 6,000 well paying jobs at dispensaries were lost, as dispensary after dispensary closed down. The Administration was so blatantly unconcerned about the effects of this policy that many raids occurred even into the 2012 election cycle!

A look at what goes on during one such raid:
http://my.firedoglake.com/elisemattu/2012/09/26/santa-rosa-calif-gets-hit-by-gestapo-today-092612/

Although it is true that Obama has more recently backed off from this policy, at least in terms of verbiage, the fact remains that the years 2009 through 2012 were years that the anti-cannabis forces were able to set up and infiltrate community after community. All this is in keeping with the Big Third Way Democrats' alliance with Big Pharma, Big Prison, and the militarization of the police.

Many cities now ban the growing of the substance, or have created planning commission provisons that totallyundermine the average person's ability to grow it. This suppression of a person's innate right to grow whatever they want on land they have legal access to is one reason why my community, Lake County, intends to be the first community to have a legal ordinance that establishes the right of any person that has land and seeds to grow those seeds.

[NYC_SKP]

1. I guess there's a lot of stupid in my state. Obama didn't cause the foreclosures, he warned us in 2

I remember reading articles, but they're all but invisible for all the RW crap that turns up in a Google search now.

[truedelphi]

3. Read Neal Barofsky's book on what really went on in terms of activities

promoted by that weasel Tim Geithner. (the man that Obama really works for.)

Neal's book is titled:

Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street

Anyway if you get the chance read it and then get back to me.

Obama had a lot of choices that he could have made differently. For instance, had Barofsky been made Secretary of Treasury instead of Geithner, then we would not have witnessed the largest transfer of wealth from the middle incomed to the rich since the days preceeding the French revolution. (And we all know what happened after that transfer of wealth - France was not a safe place to live for several decades.)

What is even more remarkable, and not in a good way, is that due to Geithner protecting "the rights" of the business class to continue with their derivative and other inane schemes, the fact remains that our nation could easily face a second collapse of the economic system. And these mosnters inside the Banking System still expect to be bailed out a second time!

[KamaAina]

2. "Sad Jose" is trying to close down every single dispensary.

All sixty of them! And this has not, so far, emerged as an issue in the hotly contested mayor's race; Sam Liccardo, one of two candidates who advanced to November, harassed dispensaries in his downtown city council district every chance he got. (One of the operators actually came to my agency for assistance.)

[truedelphi]

4. Big money aids and abets every single one of these people who

Are out there trying to destroy the people's movement of medical cannabis.

And they cloak themselves in the phrase of "making our neighborhoods and communities safe places to live."