Of course, I’m thinking of “Ghostbusters”, the movie. The story follows a group of academics in a semi-academic field – the paranormal – who don’t, and won’t, conform to the demands of the campus powers-that-be. They bust out on their own, form a business, and run into the widening tentacles of the eco-regulators in the person of Walter Peck, inspector of the EPA, third district of New York City. Please watch below.
Making the tale more relevant, Biden’s EPA is a clone of California and New York’s entangling web of eco-regulators. So filled with arrogance and hubris, they are busy jettisoning their middle class and a good portion of their economies to other states, just like Peter Venkman and company fled the campus and opened shop in the commercial district of 1980’s NYC. The script’s parallels with our times are nothing short of fascinating.
Back to the real, Mark Wahlberg has put his Los Angeles 12-bedroom, 20-bath mansion on the market and is decamping for Nevada. The reason is the same as the one for 300,000 other people who have bolted the state over the past couple of years. He’s an entrepreneur and family man and finds Nevada a better place for his economic health as Ghostbusters’ Venkman, Stantz, and Spengler would discover in fleeing the college.
About the only occupational category whose growth prospects look sunny in California, for instance, is government regulator/inspector. The equation is simple: more laws, more regulations, more state government employees. Each year, the buffoons in the asylum formerly known as the state legislature add to the number of Pecks. One law taking affect this year would require more inspectors of private insurance to enforce a ban on co-pays for abortions. The state’s minimum wage is on legal auto-pilot and is scheduled to jump to $15.50/hour which means more investigators. A new law, effective Jan. 1, 2023, would add to the government workforce to compel compliance with the state’s newfound role of sanctuary for the mutilators of children in transgender medical procedures. New state land use laws will layer more complexity, and regulators, on an already suffocating building industry. In total, Newsom signed 997 new laws, most to take effect on Jan. 1 of this year.
Thus, California has turned itself into a sanctuary for immigration lawbreakers, child sexual mutilators, and the country’s budding Walter Pecks.
Kathy Hochul’s State of New York is California, Jr. How appropriate that the setting for “Ghostbusters” is New York City. It may as well be Los Angeles or the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area. These blue havens are awash in Peck-like busybodies. No wonder Texas and Florida added congressmen and the Bear Flag Republic and the Empire State lost some. Expect it to continue.
RogerG
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* Mark Wahlberg’s departure from California to Nevada: “Mark Wahlberg left California for Nevada to give his kids ‘a better life’”, Marianne Garvey, CNN, 10/13/22, at https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/entertainment/mark-wahlberg-california-nevada-move/index.html
* “New California Laws on Abortion, Jaywalking, Rap Lyrics”, AP, USN&WP, 12/30/22, at https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2022-12-30/new-california-laws-on-abortion-jaywalking-rap-lyrics