"They are doing jobs Americans won't do. They're only looking for a better life. They pay taxes. The immigration system is broken. This land was stolen from Mexico" (ignoring the pesky fact Mexico occupied the area for only 324 months almost two centuries ago), etc., ad boredom.
Illegal alien cheerleaders have artfully conflated opposing illegal immigration with bigotry and xenophobia. It is their "go to" tool because they cannot legitimately or factually defend its' negative societal and economic impact...INCLUDING on legal aliens.
It will continue to be an uphill battle with such seditious entities as the SB City Council and our local version of Alejandro Mayorkas: Salud Carbajal. Perhaps having them recite their Oath of Office in the public square may be a worthwhile exercise to remind them of their commitment and responsibility to the people they claim to represent.
I literally despise Carbajal. He's such a deceiving narcissist. So is Oscar Gutierrez. Just absolute despicable people. They are both rude and selfish. They're both liars and thieves. And that's as nice as I can put it 😡
I completely agree with you. If a couple of hundred votes are all that is required compared to several hundred or even a thousand plus votes for other seats, then his seat should be weighted and he should not be given an equal vote to other members of the council. This man is as corrupt and uncaring as they come. God help us all.
Remember Kathy. No qualifications, local public news character. Oscar held the camera. The Dems just put a face in office, not qualified individuals. Bec they are mere puppets.
It’s hard to ignore the glaring failures Congressman Salud Carbajal has stood by and even defended while our communities suffer. Year after year, California spends billions on “solutions” to homelessness, yet the only thing we see in Santa Barbara and across the state is more tents, more encampments, and more people falling through the cracks. Where has the accountability been? Certainly not from Carbajal.
Instead of demanding real results, he votes in lockstep with Sacramento’s failed priorities—putting the interests of illegal immigrants ahead of struggling American families, veterans, and working-class citizens. Santa Barbara is short thousands of housing units, yet our leaders tolerate tens of thousands being occupied by those here illegally. Meanwhile, veterans sleep on the streets and young families are priced out of the communities they grew up in.
Carbajal and his allies are quick to blame Washington, or Trump, or anyone else, while ignoring the billions wasted right here in California. They talk about compassion but deliver policy malpractice: shelters closing, funding disappearing, and definitions of “success” rewritten to hide their failures.
Enough is enough. We need representation that fights for working families, veterans, and citizens first—not politicians who throw money at the problem, then look the other way while our neighborhoods decline. Salud Carbajal has had years to show leadership, but all he has delivered is more of the same broken promises.
How about just commenting on Santa Barbara and South County. Then you can apply it to the entire State.
SB is only one of about 6-7 locations in the entire world that have the same latitude and longitude, access to a moderating ocean, protective mountains etc. When I was a kid the statement was how expensive it is to live here. (plenty of ranch land and enough water except of our 15 year drought).
Then came the do-gooders. It was a time when the "local" churches etc. took care of the needy and tried very hard to give them a hand up. The dg's became tired, and they demanded government handouts. Then came the Cacique St. shelter and the word was OUT! Come to Santa Barbara, weather is great, food to be found, and hey a shelter that was supposed to have 5 beds is now in the hundreds.
The Political Theater of the Socialist stated, look a the wealth of the private sector and we can tax, tax, tax.
We now have the Housing Authority, significant loans and money from the city, while the property that used to provide taxes are now government owned and produce nothing.
"On top of that, California would no longer be bleeding $31 billion every year on benefits, healthcare, and subsidies, for people who have no legal right to be here..."
The long range population trends stated in the 1960's are setting in. SB is losing population. SB is ageing with less earned income. SB is facing a growing deficit because of really terrible street and traffic planning that has failed over a minimum of 40 years (documented).
I could go on.
Now LOOK at what the State of Calif. is facing! A $20 some Billion deficit. A welfare system that is crashing and adding to the deficit. A fleeing population, and aging population. A freeway system that is not maintained because Sacramento does not want you to have mobility. (gov. buses and trains)
There is the short of it. (looking up not so short)
You laid it out very well, Brian. When will clear thinking Californians see what is going on with their state and local government. Has the brainwashing of the California teachers association, local and national media really turned people into non-thinking robots? I’m very afraid that we will not be able to overcome The lazy fools that have let their entire thought process fall into the hands of these evil doers. God help us all.
Brian, as you illustrated once the border was opened housing became a bottomless pit in California. Yesterday the Democrats used Labor Day not to celebrate labor but to push for the passage of Prop 50 to use politics to increase the number of members of their party in the U.S. House of Representatives in order to, what else, STOP TRUMP.
Agreed. The Labor Reports during the Biden years showed manufacturing employment declining. Government employment continuing to increase was amazing since during COVID it did not decrease. My question of where did they work was answered by only 5% of federal employees in D.C. reporting to work.
Very sobering summary Brian of our state and local Democratic scam perpetrated on us, the tax paying public. Using the homeless and illegal immigrants as convenient pawns, while using lefty NGO’s to dole out the money, completes the scam. What’s next, controlling elections by way of re-districting? Oh wait, that’s exactly what is happening with the Dems latest scam, Prop 50! Clearly, Newsom’s campaign for Prop 50 should be a 3 alarm fire, all hands on deck proposition for anyone concerned about the current disastrous trajectory of our city and state.
The latest bad news for the City? Sales tax revenues are down, despite having raised the rates by way of Measure I. So where is the money supposed to come from to pay for housing for illegals AND the homeless? That’s right folks, you and me!
In the meantime, liberal Democrats continue the death spiral, void of any economic reality and continue the virtue signaling, attacking “Orange Man” and his followers.
Welcome to “Little Jalisco” folks, formerly known as Santa Barbara. Remember that next time driving down Hope Ave. and seeing the usual band of gray hairs protesting, jumping up and down about “protecting democracy!”
Great article, Brian. A Raytheon Corporate guy once said, "After we are finished with the engineers, we should sweep them up and put them in a closet." The Dems have a very temporary need for the homeless and illegals for votes. But after they've voted, I'm certain the Dems wish the homeless and illegals would simply disappear into the wilderness somewhere, so they are not a nuisance. Engineers are a nuisance because management sees them as a potential complainer or whistleblower, aka pain-in-the-ass.
The "Homeless Enabling Industry" is incentivized and career building only if more and more homeless show up. There is zero incentive or career motivation to solve the vagrant, er I mean 'homeless', problem. Hence we have developed a cynical, counterproductive and highly profitable 'Homeless Enabling Industry' here.
Hard to imagine that anyone can argue against these points, only someone so blinded by TDS that they only look to blame the symbol, with the endless repetition of the ritual of the Two Minutes of Hate against the Goldstein of our age.
With all due respect to Brian, the problem is we don't do step 2 (criminalize homlessness and encampments). If you think we do, just go to skid's row in LA. Building housing is not going to solve the homeless problem since many of them are there because of mental illness and drugs/alcohol. What we need to do is enforce the laws and prohibit people from sleeping outside in our urban and residential areas. In states that really do criminalize it, like Florida, there is hardly any homeless on their streets.
There are degrees of homelessness. From the poster child drug addiction/mentally ill to the urban surfer to the person who works minimum wage jobs and can barely afford rent.
And just bec Newsom says it’s illegal, he created a statewide problem that does not disappear magically. It is up to the municipalities to enforce their laws.
For example parts of LA has no sleeping in your car in residential neighborhoods. Hence the underpasses.
Here we allow the homeless to sleep in front of schools and playgrounds and public parks.
Why?
To degrade neighborhoods.
There are solutions like using public land not near neighborhoods and businesses and build tent cities with facilities on site.
But there’s no money for the corrupt in it. Building tiny homes, taking over properties in prime neighborhoods and making them shelters or low income housing paying developers , hi rises shelters, etc…. You can launder money that way.
SB has 36 non prophets for the homeless? And spends tens of millions each year.
Money machine.
Why is such a large part of the city and county spending not have its own line item in the budget? Bec then you can track the money.
Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law House Bill 1365 in March 2024, which prohibits homeless individuals from sleeping or camping on public property, including streets, sidewalks, and parks, effective October 1, 2024. The law requires cities to move homeless people into shelters or designated government-run encampments, offering resources like mental health services and workforce services but also allowing for penalties if individuals decline these options.
- Local 'Villages' comprised of ADU's, (Accessory Dwelling Units), for the Homeless with their own police & security, medical care, social workers, laundry etc., and integrated with the local city. Micro-communities that reduce the strain on shelters, hospitals, law enforcement etc.
- Look on Amazon - nice little homes for $10K that can be assembled in a week !
Ya Brown, let’s make sure we have large swaths of land set aside in Hope Ranch and Montecito. Oh, and make double sure there is plenty of open space for the “residents” to shoot up!
I hear ya LT - of course it will be a mess. Dealing with the homeless losers is always a mess, but with a place to put 'em at least they won't be lying around our streets. Wouldn't surprise me to find our Commie-Dem leaders getting behind these 'Sanctuary' villages.
The next scam to come from Newsom and the calif democrats is the agricultural equity program. More tax money to be wasted, increasing the state deficit. More tax paying Californians will flee to other states, adding to the downward spiral.
Where do I sign up to make this happen?? Explained very well and it is time for some common sense to be applied in our Santa Barbara County government!
Sounds like you just solved a lot of our problems!!
WAIT FOR IT:
"They are doing jobs Americans won't do. They're only looking for a better life. They pay taxes. The immigration system is broken. This land was stolen from Mexico" (ignoring the pesky fact Mexico occupied the area for only 324 months almost two centuries ago), etc., ad boredom.
Illegal alien cheerleaders have artfully conflated opposing illegal immigration with bigotry and xenophobia. It is their "go to" tool because they cannot legitimately or factually defend its' negative societal and economic impact...INCLUDING on legal aliens.
It will continue to be an uphill battle with such seditious entities as the SB City Council and our local version of Alejandro Mayorkas: Salud Carbajal. Perhaps having them recite their Oath of Office in the public square may be a worthwhile exercise to remind them of their commitment and responsibility to the people they claim to represent.
Well done Brian!
I literally despise Carbajal. He's such a deceiving narcissist. So is Oscar Gutierrez. Just absolute despicable people. They are both rude and selfish. They're both liars and thieves. And that's as nice as I can put it 😡
I completely agree with you. If a couple of hundred votes are all that is required compared to several hundred or even a thousand plus votes for other seats, then his seat should be weighted and he should not be given an equal vote to other members of the council. This man is as corrupt and uncaring as they come. God help us all.
DEI....District Election Ineptitude
100% 👏🏼👏🏼
Remember Kathy. No qualifications, local public news character. Oscar held the camera. The Dems just put a face in office, not qualified individuals. Bec they are mere puppets.
What does CVRA mean?
It’s hard to ignore the glaring failures Congressman Salud Carbajal has stood by and even defended while our communities suffer. Year after year, California spends billions on “solutions” to homelessness, yet the only thing we see in Santa Barbara and across the state is more tents, more encampments, and more people falling through the cracks. Where has the accountability been? Certainly not from Carbajal.
Instead of demanding real results, he votes in lockstep with Sacramento’s failed priorities—putting the interests of illegal immigrants ahead of struggling American families, veterans, and working-class citizens. Santa Barbara is short thousands of housing units, yet our leaders tolerate tens of thousands being occupied by those here illegally. Meanwhile, veterans sleep on the streets and young families are priced out of the communities they grew up in.
Carbajal and his allies are quick to blame Washington, or Trump, or anyone else, while ignoring the billions wasted right here in California. They talk about compassion but deliver policy malpractice: shelters closing, funding disappearing, and definitions of “success” rewritten to hide their failures.
Enough is enough. We need representation that fights for working families, veterans, and citizens first—not politicians who throw money at the problem, then look the other way while our neighborhoods decline. Salud Carbajal has had years to show leadership, but all he has delivered is more of the same broken promises.
EnoughIsEnough805
How about just commenting on Santa Barbara and South County. Then you can apply it to the entire State.
SB is only one of about 6-7 locations in the entire world that have the same latitude and longitude, access to a moderating ocean, protective mountains etc. When I was a kid the statement was how expensive it is to live here. (plenty of ranch land and enough water except of our 15 year drought).
Then came the do-gooders. It was a time when the "local" churches etc. took care of the needy and tried very hard to give them a hand up. The dg's became tired, and they demanded government handouts. Then came the Cacique St. shelter and the word was OUT! Come to Santa Barbara, weather is great, food to be found, and hey a shelter that was supposed to have 5 beds is now in the hundreds.
The Political Theater of the Socialist stated, look a the wealth of the private sector and we can tax, tax, tax.
We now have the Housing Authority, significant loans and money from the city, while the property that used to provide taxes are now government owned and produce nothing.
"On top of that, California would no longer be bleeding $31 billion every year on benefits, healthcare, and subsidies, for people who have no legal right to be here..."
The long range population trends stated in the 1960's are setting in. SB is losing population. SB is ageing with less earned income. SB is facing a growing deficit because of really terrible street and traffic planning that has failed over a minimum of 40 years (documented).
I could go on.
Now LOOK at what the State of Calif. is facing! A $20 some Billion deficit. A welfare system that is crashing and adding to the deficit. A fleeing population, and aging population. A freeway system that is not maintained because Sacramento does not want you to have mobility. (gov. buses and trains)
There is the short of it. (looking up not so short)
Daunting list Mr. Campbell.
You laid it out very well, Brian. When will clear thinking Californians see what is going on with their state and local government. Has the brainwashing of the California teachers association, local and national media really turned people into non-thinking robots? I’m very afraid that we will not be able to overcome The lazy fools that have let their entire thought process fall into the hands of these evil doers. God help us all.
Brian, as you illustrated once the border was opened housing became a bottomless pit in California. Yesterday the Democrats used Labor Day not to celebrate labor but to push for the passage of Prop 50 to use politics to increase the number of members of their party in the U.S. House of Representatives in order to, what else, STOP TRUMP.
Agreed. The Labor Reports during the Biden years showed manufacturing employment declining. Government employment continuing to increase was amazing since during COVID it did not decrease. My question of where did they work was answered by only 5% of federal employees in D.C. reporting to work.
Very sobering summary Brian of our state and local Democratic scam perpetrated on us, the tax paying public. Using the homeless and illegal immigrants as convenient pawns, while using lefty NGO’s to dole out the money, completes the scam. What’s next, controlling elections by way of re-districting? Oh wait, that’s exactly what is happening with the Dems latest scam, Prop 50! Clearly, Newsom’s campaign for Prop 50 should be a 3 alarm fire, all hands on deck proposition for anyone concerned about the current disastrous trajectory of our city and state.
The latest bad news for the City? Sales tax revenues are down, despite having raised the rates by way of Measure I. So where is the money supposed to come from to pay for housing for illegals AND the homeless? That’s right folks, you and me!
In the meantime, liberal Democrats continue the death spiral, void of any economic reality and continue the virtue signaling, attacking “Orange Man” and his followers.
Welcome to “Little Jalisco” folks, formerly known as Santa Barbara. Remember that next time driving down Hope Ave. and seeing the usual band of gray hairs protesting, jumping up and down about “protecting democracy!”
https://santabarbaraca.gov/press-releases/santa-barbara-city-council-votes-place-1/2-cent-sales-tax-measure-november-ballot
https://www.noozhawk.com/santa-barbaras-sales-tax-revenue-falls-short-for-fiscal-year/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Noozhawk’s%20A.M.%20Report%2009.03.2025&utm_source=9ec8acd2c4&utm_source=Noozhawk&utm_campaign=fb858023be-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_09_01_07_57&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-fb858023be-247371824
You are 100% correct Brian. Well written and stated. And so true!
Great article, Brian. A Raytheon Corporate guy once said, "After we are finished with the engineers, we should sweep them up and put them in a closet." The Dems have a very temporary need for the homeless and illegals for votes. But after they've voted, I'm certain the Dems wish the homeless and illegals would simply disappear into the wilderness somewhere, so they are not a nuisance. Engineers are a nuisance because management sees them as a potential complainer or whistleblower, aka pain-in-the-ass.
The "Homeless Enabling Industry" is incentivized and career building only if more and more homeless show up. There is zero incentive or career motivation to solve the vagrant, er I mean 'homeless', problem. Hence we have developed a cynical, counterproductive and highly profitable 'Homeless Enabling Industry' here.
A brilliant summation of the horribly obvious.
Hard to imagine that anyone can argue against these points, only someone so blinded by TDS that they only look to blame the symbol, with the endless repetition of the ritual of the Two Minutes of Hate against the Goldstein of our age.
With all due respect to Brian, the problem is we don't do step 2 (criminalize homlessness and encampments). If you think we do, just go to skid's row in LA. Building housing is not going to solve the homeless problem since many of them are there because of mental illness and drugs/alcohol. What we need to do is enforce the laws and prohibit people from sleeping outside in our urban and residential areas. In states that really do criminalize it, like Florida, there is hardly any homeless on their streets.
Lou,
There are degrees of homelessness. From the poster child drug addiction/mentally ill to the urban surfer to the person who works minimum wage jobs and can barely afford rent.
And just bec Newsom says it’s illegal, he created a statewide problem that does not disappear magically. It is up to the municipalities to enforce their laws.
For example parts of LA has no sleeping in your car in residential neighborhoods. Hence the underpasses.
Here we allow the homeless to sleep in front of schools and playgrounds and public parks.
Why?
To degrade neighborhoods.
There are solutions like using public land not near neighborhoods and businesses and build tent cities with facilities on site.
But there’s no money for the corrupt in it. Building tiny homes, taking over properties in prime neighborhoods and making them shelters or low income housing paying developers , hi rises shelters, etc…. You can launder money that way.
SB has 36 non prophets for the homeless? And spends tens of millions each year.
Money machine.
Why is such a large part of the city and county spending not have its own line item in the budget? Bec then you can track the money.
Google AI:
Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law House Bill 1365 in March 2024, which prohibits homeless individuals from sleeping or camping on public property, including streets, sidewalks, and parks, effective October 1, 2024. The law requires cities to move homeless people into shelters or designated government-run encampments, offering resources like mental health services and workforce services but also allowing for penalties if individuals decline these options.
Absolutely stunning facts. Now if we could force feed the facts to most Democrats.......!
Thanks Brian.
Here's an answer:
- All illegal aliens - O-U-T !
- Local 'Villages' comprised of ADU's, (Accessory Dwelling Units), for the Homeless with their own police & security, medical care, social workers, laundry etc., and integrated with the local city. Micro-communities that reduce the strain on shelters, hospitals, law enforcement etc.
- Look on Amazon - nice little homes for $10K that can be assembled in a week !
Ya Brown, let’s make sure we have large swaths of land set aside in Hope Ranch and Montecito. Oh, and make double sure there is plenty of open space for the “residents” to shoot up!
I hear ya LT - of course it will be a mess. Dealing with the homeless losers is always a mess, but with a place to put 'em at least they won't be lying around our streets. Wouldn't surprise me to find our Commie-Dem leaders getting behind these 'Sanctuary' villages.
The next scam to come from Newsom and the calif democrats is the agricultural equity program. More tax money to be wasted, increasing the state deficit. More tax paying Californians will flee to other states, adding to the downward spiral.
https://freebeacon.com/california/stolen-land-gavin-newsoms-agricultural-equity-advisers-prepare-plan-to-redistribute-farmland-to-racial-minorities/
Where do I sign up to make this happen?? Explained very well and it is time for some common sense to be applied in our Santa Barbara County government!
Sounds like you just solved a lot of our problems!!
2026 Dem Campaign Promises:
Higher taxes, less services
More crime, less enforcement
Open drug markets
More illegal immigration
Less housing, more homelessness
Massive inflation, more deficits
More DEI
More race divide, quotas
More money for Unions
EV mandate, carbon tax/credits
More Transgender sickness
Higher utilities, less water
More law-fare, impeachments
More Gerrymandering
More support for enemies abroad
What could possibly go wrong?
So true, yet the average jerk on the street keeps voting for these Commiie-Dems.