Excellent article Mr. Caldwell. Thank you…the trials and tribulations of farmers & ranchers (both here and abroad - see farmers with tractors marching on Euro capitals) are indicative of the Globalists highly-complex plan to starve populations & usher in their New World Order…it’s a long-range plan to reduce the world population to 500,000,000 & then totally control the remnants…
We are now working through the final stops on Mr. Trump's wild ride…it’s a public education process to alert the masses…President Trump is Now exposing the deep corruption within our justice system…at the same time, the Legacy Media is also being further exposed, as they feverishly attempt to continue to control the narratives…this will fail, as other attempts also have failed…
How many Legacy Media (Operation Mockingbird) hoaxes have been successful?
PS…if interested, here’s a topical interview with Max Igan (Aussie Patriot), a Truth teller who has been attempting to wake The World for more than 20 years…
here’s another, more topical regarding food supply, by Catherine Austin Fitts, who worked within the Bush Jr Administration…she is also a Great Patriot, fighting to wake the population…have a listen…
Long time Max listener here. If you’re interested in getting both sides of the story…not just what the MSM is telling you…I highly recommend giving Max a listen. At least then you’ll have followed the judges instructions to the jury to examine all the evidence. And yes…the pandemic was a scam from the get go. Germs have never been scientifically proven to cause disease…same goes with alleged contagion. Cheers! PS - Re politics…two wings same bird. No politician savior in sight…
“local farmworkers, on average, earn more per hour here than they earn for an entire day in Mexico. Moreover, strawberry workers can earn up to $30 per hour” “ our farmers must compete with foreign producers whose …. costs are magnitude lower than ours”
- Why don’t Citizen do the work if it pays $39/hour or are Citizens discriminated against for some reason in the “hiring process”
- If illegal labor is not cheap, why are illegal farm workers encouraged and supported
Once again government proves it has no idea how to run a business. Government only knows how to kill business. Regulation and taxes.
Ever notice how our government doesn’t seem to actually help, being a servant to the Citizen is not a priority of government. If there is a public benefit it is incidental to government/politicians agenda or it’s because they need something from you.
For example all these streets being closed to create bike lanes. Bicycles make up 0.50%, a half a percent, who ride to work.
So who benefits from closing streets and building bike lanes?
While the City of SB says they’re broke and will need to cut services.
Who benefits from the $100,000/year spent on each individual homeless person.?
Yes the County spends $100,000 per homeless person each year.
$200 million/ year our SB County spends on the 1,800 homeless people
Essentially each SB County homeless person makes $100,000/year.
Has the number of homeless gone down. Nope, for decades it hovers around the 1,800 number.
So who is getting the $200 million/ year?
Ask questions, fire every elected official because they are not helping.
Ah, you might want to brush up on the Constitution and/or State local laws. But you can't "fire" elected officials. Depending on which positions you're talking about you could start a recall or an impeachment. Or just vote them out of office.
One assumes the term "fire every elected official" was intended in the broadest terms - first line is of course at the ballot box. Or automatically by "term limits". Which means neither voter nor candidate is accountable for poor election choices- hence the dumbed down laziness and numbness of our current "term limited" political process.
Great artical a d explaination. As us generally the case there is far more to an issue/topic than appears or is willing to be discussed/described by naysayers and accusers. Other reasons for maintaining agriculture where it exists now is lower transportation costs to market, diversity of land use is a more interesting and in my view desirable way to live (compared to only the built environment (buildings and cars). Diversity of employment options, we can’t all be consultants without something of value added that is physical. Driving through for example San Luis Obispo County is so fulfilling to me because of agriculture, the old barns, the vines turning color in the fall, the eucalyptus tree wind breaks at property lines. Further, plants remove carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Agriculture is a +++ positive for any area. This article explains all of this very well.
Only the Communists want that Andy. They want to control every aspect of our lives, all the way down to providing us with laboratory meats and produce as our only source of sustenance and nutrition. As an organic avocado and citrus farmer in Gaviota, my husband could tell horror stories of the bureaucracy that has made us hemorrhage money for atleast a decade. Our systems from top to bottom are completely unsustainable and favor government controlled globalism at every turn. May common sense and patriotism prevail in our coming elections. 🙏🏻🇺🇸
Democrats have run this state and education system for decades.
How many billions is this state in debt for?
The City is holding public meetings to hear what essential services are important to you because they’ve run the City’s budget into the ground.
We have watched the homeless humanitarian crisis be a tool for the Democrats to use, but never actually solve or help.
$200,000,000 per year.
$110,000 per homeless person each year.
There are over 30 non profits for homelessness in SB which generates their own monies they spend on homelessness
And where are we today? The same spot we were in 10 years ago with around 1,800 homeless
Education, we are ranked 44th in the nation. That number has not improved. Democrats control the schools. Over half the children “graduating” can’t read and write or do math at grade level.
In other words over half the students are failing. According to SBUSD they are preparing the kids for life beyond school. What life is that exactly if they can read & write at grade level?
Democrats are and have been in control. They cannot point a finger anywhere but themselves, as much as they try to blame others for their failings like children.
Just saying the Democrats have not shown any progress, in fact have actually shown negative results for their tenure. But Democratic voters appear to like homeless defacating, shooting up on the streets, yelling below your office window on State Street, etc…. They enjoy watching businesses leave SB & CA.
They must be very proud having one of the worst education systems in the country.
Democrats must be very proud of these failings. That’s why they keep voting Democrat.
California's poor K-12 ranking is even more odious, considering Prop 98 guarantees 50% of all general funds go off the top to public education (K-14). Yet all one hears is how "underfunded" K-12 is.
What state programs feeding off the remaining Prop 98 allocated 50% of the general fund budget will be willing to kick in their share to supplement the current K12 budget who gets the first 50%?
I applaud Andy for remembering hard-working farmers and ranchers on the eve of International Labor Day (May 1st). Unfortunately, it is not just developers that are gobbling up family farms and ranches, it is also corporate agriculture and foreign investors. The workers who now must labor on those corporate farms are exempted from many of the protections of the Department of Labor. On that very first "May Day" in 1886, American workers across the country struck for an 8-hour workday and a 40-hour work week, something most of us now take for granted. "8 hours of work, 8 hours of ease, 8 hours to do as I please" they chanted as they marched, while Pinkerton thugs and Policemen beat them with batons, killing some of them, in an effort to end the strike and get them back to work. Their sacrifices gave birth to Labor's May Day celebrations and planted the seeds for improved pay and working conditions, an end to child labor, disability payments, and "THE WEEKEND" that we all enjoy today. Thank you, Andy! And I hope all your readers are enjoying the fruits of their labor on America's 142nd May Day!
Perhaps one of them can respond and tell us the details? When I was stationed in Germany there were unions that negotiated a "4-day" work week, but that was in lieu of getting raises and the work week had to be staggered (Mo-Th; Tu-Fr), or work 6.5 hours M-F. When I was stationed at Fort Meade in the 1990's, Federal workers could opt for a "4-day" work week, but still had to work 40 hrs (10 hours vice 8 hours/day). For those who commuted a long distance to work, or had to deal with heavy traffic, that was a good deal. That was also when the start time hours were staggered. Instead of everyone showing up at 8, you could show up sometime between 6-10am and leave 8.5 hours later, so 2:30-6:30. They Army participated in the "flex time" but not the 4-day work work. That may have changed, but that was how it was in the 1990's.
I read this good article by Mr. Caldwell and I quote "Family farms are disappearing across America including here on the Central Coast. That’s because farming is subject to more risk than virtually any other sector of our economy."
I grew up on a small farm in the mid-west America, up at 5 am and farm work is 24/7. The farms are disappearing there as well. My parents farm was sold to developers, ticky-tacky subdivisions that Mr. Caldwell so rightly describes. Farm-life is peaceful, animinal husbandry is engrained and carries over to the farm community where everyone watches out for everyone else. That community life and watching-out for your neighbor is long lost and gone replaced by the Get-What-You-Can, "Me First"
wokeness groups that espouses the DEI as a method of power grabbing at every turn.
Any doubt about power and discrimination read here>>"73% of Jewish college students have experienced or seen antisemitism since start of school year, new survey finds"
Andy, can you provide ballpark nubers as to how many Central Coast farms are 'family farms' vs. state or multi state corporations? I'm asking because my sympathies go out for the local burger shack on the corner - but not for McDonalds.
Another huge issue in the West is water- there is not enough to supply humans’ homes and industry and grow all the needed crops. There would be less of a problem if we did not run much of the stored water from dams into the ocean. This is done to perpetuate fish like the famous Delta smelt. We need more capacity to store rain and snowmelt water in years like the last two . No new dams are being built, in fact, existing ones are being demolished to enable fish swimming upstream. I have long wondered what California could look like if we took lessons from the Israelis. They also live in an arid land. They have developed desalination on a large scale. The Bible speaks about turning deserts into green agriculture. The Jews are doing it. We could probably grow the crops, save some fish and flush all the toilets if we had more dams and embraced large scale desalination ( powered by nuclear energy,) Our California legislators bloviate about global warming and worry about the hazards of bovine flatulence . The asylum truly is run by the inmates ( as if we still had asylums)
Voters approve bonds but nothing changes. CA’s outdated infrastructure is inadequate for its population which is far over its maximum carrying capacity. In 1950, with 10M residents, CA was designed for 30M max not 40M.
So true! Perhaps new residents could be required to bring their water with them? Living in Lompoc in 1958, you could still swim in the Santa Ynez River.
Excellent article Mr. Caldwell. Thank you…the trials and tribulations of farmers & ranchers (both here and abroad - see farmers with tractors marching on Euro capitals) are indicative of the Globalists highly-complex plan to starve populations & usher in their New World Order…it’s a long-range plan to reduce the world population to 500,000,000 & then totally control the remnants…
We are now working through the final stops on Mr. Trump's wild ride…it’s a public education process to alert the masses…President Trump is Now exposing the deep corruption within our justice system…at the same time, the Legacy Media is also being further exposed, as they feverishly attempt to continue to control the narratives…this will fail, as other attempts also have failed…
How many Legacy Media (Operation Mockingbird) hoaxes have been successful?
Russian collusion
Trump called neo-nazis "fine people"
Jussie Smollett
Bubba Wallace garage pull
Covington kids
Governor Witmer kidnapping plot
Kavanaugh rape
Trump pee tape
Trump saved nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago
Steele Dossier
Russian bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan
Trump said drinking bleach would fight COVID
If you get vaccinated you won't catch COVID
Mostly peaceful protests
January 6th was an insurrection
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera…
Fight 4 Trump!!!
PS…if interested, here’s a topical interview with Max Igan (Aussie Patriot), a Truth teller who has been attempting to wake The World for more than 20 years…
less than 45 mins @ 1.5 speed…have a listen…
https://rumble.com/v4s4iwc-max-igan-interviewed-on-croatian-national-television-280424-the-moral-compa.html
here’s another, more topical regarding food supply, by Catherine Austin Fitts, who worked within the Bush Jr Administration…she is also a Great Patriot, fighting to wake the population…have a listen…
https://usawatchdog.com/insane-vs-sane-demonic-vs-divine-catherine-austin-fitts/
Long time Max listener here. If you’re interested in getting both sides of the story…not just what the MSM is telling you…I highly recommend giving Max a listen. At least then you’ll have followed the judges instructions to the jury to examine all the evidence. And yes…the pandemic was a scam from the get go. Germs have never been scientifically proven to cause disease…same goes with alleged contagion. Cheers! PS - Re politics…two wings same bird. No politician savior in sight…
“local farmworkers, on average, earn more per hour here than they earn for an entire day in Mexico. Moreover, strawberry workers can earn up to $30 per hour” “ our farmers must compete with foreign producers whose …. costs are magnitude lower than ours”
- Why don’t Citizen do the work if it pays $39/hour or are Citizens discriminated against for some reason in the “hiring process”
- If illegal labor is not cheap, why are illegal farm workers encouraged and supported
Once again government proves it has no idea how to run a business. Government only knows how to kill business. Regulation and taxes.
Ever notice how our government doesn’t seem to actually help, being a servant to the Citizen is not a priority of government. If there is a public benefit it is incidental to government/politicians agenda or it’s because they need something from you.
For example all these streets being closed to create bike lanes. Bicycles make up 0.50%, a half a percent, who ride to work.
So who benefits from closing streets and building bike lanes?
While the City of SB says they’re broke and will need to cut services.
Who benefits from the $100,000/year spent on each individual homeless person.?
Yes the County spends $100,000 per homeless person each year.
$200 million/ year our SB County spends on the 1,800 homeless people
Essentially each SB County homeless person makes $100,000/year.
Has the number of homeless gone down. Nope, for decades it hovers around the 1,800 number.
So who is getting the $200 million/ year?
Ask questions, fire every elected official because they are not helping.
Ah, you might want to brush up on the Constitution and/or State local laws. But you can't "fire" elected officials. Depending on which positions you're talking about you could start a recall or an impeachment. Or just vote them out of office.
One assumes the term "fire every elected official" was intended in the broadest terms - first line is of course at the ballot box. Or automatically by "term limits". Which means neither voter nor candidate is accountable for poor election choices- hence the dumbed down laziness and numbness of our current "term limited" political process.
Great artical a d explaination. As us generally the case there is far more to an issue/topic than appears or is willing to be discussed/described by naysayers and accusers. Other reasons for maintaining agriculture where it exists now is lower transportation costs to market, diversity of land use is a more interesting and in my view desirable way to live (compared to only the built environment (buildings and cars). Diversity of employment options, we can’t all be consultants without something of value added that is physical. Driving through for example San Luis Obispo County is so fulfilling to me because of agriculture, the old barns, the vines turning color in the fall, the eucalyptus tree wind breaks at property lines. Further, plants remove carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Agriculture is a +++ positive for any area. This article explains all of this very well.
Only the Communists want that Andy. They want to control every aspect of our lives, all the way down to providing us with laboratory meats and produce as our only source of sustenance and nutrition. As an organic avocado and citrus farmer in Gaviota, my husband could tell horror stories of the bureaucracy that has made us hemorrhage money for atleast a decade. Our systems from top to bottom are completely unsustainable and favor government controlled globalism at every turn. May common sense and patriotism prevail in our coming elections. 🙏🏻🇺🇸
It’s called, voting differently.
Democrats have run this state and education system for decades.
How many billions is this state in debt for?
The City is holding public meetings to hear what essential services are important to you because they’ve run the City’s budget into the ground.
We have watched the homeless humanitarian crisis be a tool for the Democrats to use, but never actually solve or help.
$200,000,000 per year.
$110,000 per homeless person each year.
There are over 30 non profits for homelessness in SB which generates their own monies they spend on homelessness
And where are we today? The same spot we were in 10 years ago with around 1,800 homeless
Education, we are ranked 44th in the nation. That number has not improved. Democrats control the schools. Over half the children “graduating” can’t read and write or do math at grade level.
In other words over half the students are failing. According to SBUSD they are preparing the kids for life beyond school. What life is that exactly if they can read & write at grade level?
Democrats are and have been in control. They cannot point a finger anywhere but themselves, as much as they try to blame others for their failings like children.
Just saying the Democrats have not shown any progress, in fact have actually shown negative results for their tenure. But Democratic voters appear to like homeless defacating, shooting up on the streets, yelling below your office window on State Street, etc…. They enjoy watching businesses leave SB & CA.
They must be very proud having one of the worst education systems in the country.
Democrats must be very proud of these failings. That’s why they keep voting Democrat.
It is interesting that we are ranked so poorly in k-12 but have four of the top ten in the country public universities https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public.
California's poor K-12 ranking is even more odious, considering Prop 98 guarantees 50% of all general funds go off the top to public education (K-14). Yet all one hears is how "underfunded" K-12 is.
What state programs feeding off the remaining Prop 98 allocated 50% of the general fund budget will be willing to kick in their share to supplement the current K12 budget who gets the first 50%?
I applaud Andy for remembering hard-working farmers and ranchers on the eve of International Labor Day (May 1st). Unfortunately, it is not just developers that are gobbling up family farms and ranches, it is also corporate agriculture and foreign investors. The workers who now must labor on those corporate farms are exempted from many of the protections of the Department of Labor. On that very first "May Day" in 1886, American workers across the country struck for an 8-hour workday and a 40-hour work week, something most of us now take for granted. "8 hours of work, 8 hours of ease, 8 hours to do as I please" they chanted as they marched, while Pinkerton thugs and Policemen beat them with batons, killing some of them, in an effort to end the strike and get them back to work. Their sacrifices gave birth to Labor's May Day celebrations and planted the seeds for improved pay and working conditions, an end to child labor, disability payments, and "THE WEEKEND" that we all enjoy today. Thank you, Andy! And I hope all your readers are enjoying the fruits of their labor on America's 142nd May Day!
Why do local SB city govt office & police workers, and SBCC get 4-day work weeks with 5-day pay?
They still work 160 hours (full time) per month.
Perhaps one of them can respond and tell us the details? When I was stationed in Germany there were unions that negotiated a "4-day" work week, but that was in lieu of getting raises and the work week had to be staggered (Mo-Th; Tu-Fr), or work 6.5 hours M-F. When I was stationed at Fort Meade in the 1990's, Federal workers could opt for a "4-day" work week, but still had to work 40 hrs (10 hours vice 8 hours/day). For those who commuted a long distance to work, or had to deal with heavy traffic, that was a good deal. That was also when the start time hours were staggered. Instead of everyone showing up at 8, you could show up sometime between 6-10am and leave 8.5 hours later, so 2:30-6:30. They Army participated in the "flex time" but not the 4-day work work. That may have changed, but that was how it was in the 1990's.
This is exactly what our current government wants, a way for more control...a Marxist regime😔
Wake up America. It's not to late🙌
I read this good article by Mr. Caldwell and I quote "Family farms are disappearing across America including here on the Central Coast. That’s because farming is subject to more risk than virtually any other sector of our economy."
I grew up on a small farm in the mid-west America, up at 5 am and farm work is 24/7. The farms are disappearing there as well. My parents farm was sold to developers, ticky-tacky subdivisions that Mr. Caldwell so rightly describes. Farm-life is peaceful, animinal husbandry is engrained and carries over to the farm community where everyone watches out for everyone else. That community life and watching-out for your neighbor is long lost and gone replaced by the Get-What-You-Can, "Me First"
wokeness groups that espouses the DEI as a method of power grabbing at every turn.
Any doubt about power and discrimination read here>>"73% of Jewish college students have experienced or seen antisemitism since start of school year, new survey finds"
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family
Andy, can you provide ballpark nubers as to how many Central Coast farms are 'family farms' vs. state or multi state corporations? I'm asking because my sympathies go out for the local burger shack on the corner - but not for McDonalds.
The vast majority of local farms are family owned. The few exceptions? Some large vineyards and some cannabis operations!!!
Thank you.
Another huge issue in the West is water- there is not enough to supply humans’ homes and industry and grow all the needed crops. There would be less of a problem if we did not run much of the stored water from dams into the ocean. This is done to perpetuate fish like the famous Delta smelt. We need more capacity to store rain and snowmelt water in years like the last two . No new dams are being built, in fact, existing ones are being demolished to enable fish swimming upstream. I have long wondered what California could look like if we took lessons from the Israelis. They also live in an arid land. They have developed desalination on a large scale. The Bible speaks about turning deserts into green agriculture. The Jews are doing it. We could probably grow the crops, save some fish and flush all the toilets if we had more dams and embraced large scale desalination ( powered by nuclear energy,) Our California legislators bloviate about global warming and worry about the hazards of bovine flatulence . The asylum truly is run by the inmates ( as if we still had asylums)
Voters approve bonds but nothing changes. CA’s outdated infrastructure is inadequate for its population which is far over its maximum carrying capacity. In 1950, with 10M residents, CA was designed for 30M max not 40M.
So true! Perhaps new residents could be required to bring their water with them? Living in Lompoc in 1958, you could still swim in the Santa Ynez River.