Michael Ramirez for March 10, 2018

Numbers don’t lie, but right-wing cartoonists do – there is no exodus from California. The mocking image of Californians fleeing for other states is simply wrong. The outflow of millions of people adds up to about 1.5% of their population.

Spot on. Soon the socialists will build a wall to keep the residents and businesses in California – like their cousins: the Stasi did in Eastern Europe a few decades ago.

Spot on. Soon the socialists will build a wall to keep the residents and businesses in California – like their cousins: the Stasi did in Eastern Europe a few decades ago.

California sure acts like the land of the free and the home of the brave. The entire American economy (and much of our moral / social conscience) absolutely depends on California’s sterling record of success. Their economy and wages grew during the Bush recessions, also while successfully dealing with a state budget crisis.

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If California was considered separately, it would rank as the sixth largest economy in the world, just behind rest of the United States combined, China, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that California’s GDP was $2.5 trillion in 2015, up 4.1 percent from a year earlier.

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California’s per capita income was $38,956 as of 2006, ranking 11th in the nation. By 2016, per capita income had increased to $56,374, ranking 6th in the nation.

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Sanctuary laws ensure that immigrants report crimes, cooperate with law enforcement without fear of being deported, and to ensure all California residents are protected at a minimum standard exemplified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Californians have a right under the 10th Amendment to pass whatever laws they deem necessary to advance public safety for all California residents.

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‘Red’ states are overwhelmingly the Welfare Queen States. Red States — the ones governed by folks who think government is too big and spending needs to be cut— are a net drain on the economy, taking in more federal spending than they pay out in federal taxes. They talk s#it, but stick ‘Blue’ States with the bill for their own ineptitude.

Maybe California just wants to rid itself of Michael Ramirez.

Considering all the times Ramirez has been caught trying to spread these kinds of lies it is surprising no one has asked him to return his awards for lack of integrity.

Not Republican Utopia, like Mississippi or Alabama or now Kansas. All doing better than CA! Aren’t they?

Not Republican Utopia, like Mississippi or Alabama or now Kansas. All doing better than CA! Aren’t they?

Trump is supposed to visit California next week. His cheering crowds will doubtless be out of state visitors. I believe he is meeting with members of the armed forces. A relatively safe audience for him to heap praise on. All hail ICE.

The reason people leave California is they cannot afford to live there due to the high cost of housing because so many people want to live there.

California has a budget surplus under Jerry Brown because they taxed the people who have all the money, the rich.

The Trump DC fascists are totally opposite California values.

^ Because unemployed and unemployable people from the South West flock to California looking for handouts.

Californians were thrilled when Ramirez was fired from the Los Angeles Times in 2005. Its readers had had enough of his hateful, incendiary, fact-defying “cartoons”.

Mexicans crossing the border into the U.S. are the new Kulaks.