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PragerU host Will Witt drops by to discuss his new documentary, "Fleeing California." A surprise guest stops by to end the show with a song.
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By the way, so the last time you were here, I think it was episode 17, and we were shooting in my bedroom, and you were here, and I had shown you some pictures that I had found of you on vacation.
And so what's crazy is I went through your old Instagram profile and I found more pictures of you recently.
And also on the side, apparently, in the midst of all this drama and cultures and sexual orientations, you also made a documentary called Fleeing California, which showcases essentially the corruption and the problems of California.
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Anyway, speaking of high prices, California is pretty damn expensive.
Yeah, I mean, there's a myriad of reasons, and it's pretty obvious to see when you look at the, first of all, the business regulatory environment in California versus Texas, you find that the annual business, regulatory business compliance costs for the average small business in California are $135,000 a year.
You know, what small business can afford that when they're at 1% profit margins?
98% of all businesses in California are small businesses.
And this results in the loss of about 3.8 million jobs every year, which is about one in 10 people in California losing their jobs because of these compliance costs, which is just insane.
You don't have that in Texas.
You don't have this red tape, these regulations, like something like you can be your own general contractor in Texas.
There's also no state income tax in Texas, which makes it so that people can invest and afford more things in Texas.
So there's just, there's so many things that just make Texas the place that all Americans want to live because just it's where freedom is.
It's where you can start a family and really build your career.
California used to be that place, but it no longer is.
I mean, even when we look at income tax, when we look at corporate taxes, I mean, I can instantly save upwards of 10% of my money just by moving instantly.
So if I just cross the state boundaries, for every $10, I get one more of my dollars back in my pocket, not to mention lower cost of energy.
Yeah, no, this is what I said in the trailer, which is different.
I didn't include everything in the trailer, but that California is now a place for the very rich and the very poor.
And Ted Cruz mentioned this as well in the mini documentary where he talks about how these rich tech billionaires and people who own these huge companies in California, these Fortune 500 companies, I mean, they don't care if gallon of gas is $4.50.
It doesn't mean anything to them.
They have private jets.
They have fancy sports cars, million-dollar homes.
Like, none of that stuff means anything to them.
But think about, you know, a content creator or a school teacher or a garbage man.
You know, any of these people working blue-collar or are not huge billionaire people.
Like, these things really matter to them.
It really affects the bottom line.
So middle-class citizens are getting completely shafted by the government in California, and they're all moving out.
Well, remember, it was the Democrat politicians that were mocking the fact that during the tax refund that, oh, Americans are going to get anywhere from like $300 to $1,200 back, not realizing that that's people's entire mortgage for a month.
Like you're mocking as you've made millions of dollars off the backs of the American people like Elizabeth Warren and Nancy Pelosi mocking the fact that, oh, Americans only get a few hundred dollars back or a thousand.
It's like, dude, for most of us, to be honest, the gas changing 30 cents a gallon is feeding ourselves a few meals or our family an extra meal.
And a lot of people are, I think most Americans are probably living month to month, paycheck to paycheck, just trying to survive.
And so it's like California has become a place where what we're going to find out in this next clip is actually, amidst all the flourishing and the richness and the greatness and the beauty, per se, in some of the places, actually a place of extreme poverty.
So how is California handling the growing poverty rate in their state?
California spends more than Texas, Arizona, South Dakota, North Dakota, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Hawaii, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Montana on welfare annually combined.
State and local governments have spent a gargantuan amount of money, oftentimes wastefully overlapping each other.
Yet the incredible spending has not alleviated one of California's most vexing problems.
In fact, it seems to have made it worse.
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It's really weird that you say you don't drink monster energy drinks and I got it for you for free when your assistant messaged my producer and said one of the things that they required in here was for you to have a monster and a Diet Coke available.
So it's like you act like you're not stuck up and you have problems and that's smart and you have an assistant do it.
But then what's even worse is you come on my show and you request a monster and a Diet Coke, which we go out of our way to pay for.
Yeah, we're not going to compare if Todd could have done a better job on your pod on your documentary, but what we will talk about is the fact that, you know, as much as we talk about the $4 in people's bank accounts, people in California really are in poverty.
And it's not a funny thing.
When you look around, I mean, what's crazy is I was saying, like, my apartment's $2,415 a month.
And you were being serious when you said this is not the nicest area.
Like, I don't want to say ghetto because I don't want to be insensitive.
So California spends about $1.03 billion a year on welfare spending and still has one in five people in the state living below the poverty line, which is more than any other state.
You know, think about the Hollywood elites and the big tech billionaires again and these people who own so much of California people living in Beverly Hills, these leftist elites.
The black plague affecting homeless people, that doesn't affect them.
They don't care.
Like, they're not getting the black plague.
You know what I mean?
Like, it doesn't affect them at all.
But something like coronavirus, oh, now Tom Hanks is coronavirus.
No, they don't care because it doesn't affect their communities.
They can virtue signal and pander as much as they want and say, oh, it's an emergency about all these other things.
But then when it comes to something that might actually affect their lives, it might actually affect their businesses and the things they're working on.
Then, of course, they care.
Then, of course, they say something and, oh, it's a national emergency.
It's a pandemic.
We have to freak out and everyone has to stay in their homes.
And the point is, is that that's where you see the narcissism and the selfishness of the people who are making these policies.
I mean, I mean, I really was blown away by finding, I mean, I'm not, okay, I wasn't blown away by reading an article that said that coronavirus is sexist.
But I am always blown away by the fact of you, when you see in California their capability to actually, you know, fight fires or to do things.
And then what they always do is they just blame somebody else.
They take the focus off.
And it shows you the negligence that they really, they really don't care.
And that brings up the point.
I wanted to get into that.
We are in a state of emergency.
And we have another clip that Todd's going to play here that really shows how bad things have gotten by people ignoring the problem.
One of the issues that I face living here is the fear of the homeless epidemic because a lot of these homeless individuals, they're drug addicts, some are sex offenders, and that's become a huge problem.
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There are people defecating on the street right in front of my apartment.
We have syringes there.
We have a lot of issues in California that seem to be blinded to the policies that come out of here.
And I don't think the rest of the nation really understands what's happening in California.
So, you know, the homelessness is clearly a serious problem.
And it's even somebody like we talked about earlier, even though Tommy's doing well for herself and she's, you know, financially capable, it does still affect the wealthy because it's just a few feet away from where a wealthy person might live.
Even if you live in a $5,000 apartment, there's probably people pissing on the side of your building shooting up, you know, meth and heroin, and the place won't even remove them.
Yeah, that's our, hey, you know, actually too, to kind of end on this, the Blaze has actually really, really beefed up our provisions, which is why we have a field correspondent too on this show.
You're in a toddler section, which is interesting.
And because of panic buying, people apparently, I don't know what they're, they ran out of toilet paper, so they're buying children's clothes just to supplement.
Like they need some cloth.
So they're buying out the children's clothes just to supplement.
So it's good for young people too, or for people who are new to politics or culture ideas that you want to show them what's really going on and what these policies lead to.
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As always, Will, we're not going to shake hands because we social distance, but we can like click, we can click.