... Endowment, and the authors are Daniel Flaming (president of the Roundtable), Patrick Burns, and Michael Matsunaga.
The report is completely intellectually dishonest, failing to note the role that massive immigration - especially of the illegal variety - has played in California's problems. But, that's not all: the report is also anti-American. That's certainly a strong term, but when they...
... Economic Roundtable President Daniel Flaming":
"When manufacturing collapsed, there was no effort to salvage the infrastructure for other purposes... The formal economy here has been stagnant since the beginning of the 1990s. The only growth has been in under-the-table employment, predominantly fueled by desperate workers and in particular undocumented workers... [Without immigrants, Flaming...
... underground cash" which interviews Daniel Flaming, one of the study's co-authors:
"There are several factors that create economic desperation: a slow recovery from the 2000 recession, a growing immigrant labor force that in all likelihood includes a growing undocumented labor force. Those workers, in particular, are desperate."
And stemming the trend won't be easy, Flaming said. He believes...