newsindhs l June 29, 2019

Desert Hot Springs California, parked in the northern edge of the center of Riverside County has a long history.  It was for a long time only accessible by car from the west side of the city.  Palm Drive from Dillon Road to the freeway is fairly new compared to the many years people have called this city home.

Desert Hot Springs or as it’s know ‘DHS’ has seen shiny new classic American cars roll down her streets, many hotels have come and some have gone.  Our city has seen corruption, it’s seen gangs, and it now sees mary jane growing in it’s industrial area.  Who knew?

The one and only thing it’s seen the same of over all of it’s years is people.  People have walked her land since the days before Cabot Yerxa and beyond and people still do today.  The same kind of people have made children here, they’ve died here, they’ve started businesses here and some have made millions here.

The people are the same but life for the people in Desert Hot Springs has changed immensely over the years since she was founded.

Cabot Yerxa for example paid 7 cents for a loaf of bread when he was alive in Desert Hot Springs.  Imagine paying that now.  We can’t.  If a store published the price of 7 cents for a loaf of bread the aisle would be cleaned before close of the store that same day.

So how did we as the same bipedal people in Desert Hot Springs go from 7 cents for a loaf of bread over 100 years ago to now costing 31 times that at $2.19 per loaf?

Simple answer…… Very slowly.

It was a slow process that got us to be alright with paying that much for bread here.  Our purchasing power of our dollar has gone down tremendously and so has our standard of living.  It used to be that a family of 5 could support itself on a single income and have a nice home, take vacations, have 2 cars and even afford a nanny at home.  And that wasn’t that long ago.

So what causes us to accept increasingly higher costs of goods and a lower standard of living without us saying no?  Simple answer, time.   The slower that things take to change the more we accept them into our daily routine.

Desert Hot Springs is nowhere near left out of this protracted modification of society.  In fact it plays the role of compliant citizen who accepts the vice’s incremental clamp down where we feel the jaws close a fraction of a degree at a time like any other city in America does.

Why do we put up with this tightening of our finances, the shrinking of our free time, and our shortening vacation trips?

Again……. time.

The slow movement of the wall of pressure against us in Desert Hot Springs causes us to have time to adjust to it and therefore not really notice anything is changing much even though it is.

Just like at the end of this month we are going to see our gas prices go up somewhere between 5 and 10 cents per gallon.  That is a new tax that’s coming to all pumps in California to pay for bicycle lanes and road diets and roundabouts that are being built in California.  Desert Hot Springs is getting some of that before this years is over.

Thanks drivers!!!

That gas tax was passed a long long long time ago but was not set to activate til months and months later.

The trick the legislators who passed this tax use is to not have a tax start right away because people who thought it was a good idea and voted for it would immediately see the error of their ways if it was enacted right away.  And no more taxes would ever get passed on the ballot.

But nevertheless we’re slowly being burdened with more higher and more higher costs of living one penny at a time.  That way we adjust and we adjust and we adjust and we adjust and we adjust and we adjust and we adjust and we adjust without seeing the bigger picture that we’re just adjusting like they want us to into smaller and smaller spaces like our cars.  Smaller things like our homes.  Smaller things like our airplane seats.  That’s right the newest thing in airline travel will hit PSP someday and it’s a saddle instead of an airplane seat.  See you take up less space on a plane if you are standing so airlines are soon to start fitting planes with cushions you can lean on while the flight is going.  That way more sardines can fit in the plane tomorrow than can today.

And do we pay less for these smaller things and spaces?  No.  The cost stays high and the living quarters shrink.  It’s us getting accustomed to smaller and smaller and more confining spaces.  Some of us remember when cubicles came into the workforce and we had to leave a private office to fill a cubicle the size of a bathroom instead.  We got used to it slowly.

Some of us remember living in a 5 bedroom house with one parent income.  Now we’re happy to have a 1 bedroom apartment instead of a studio apartment.  We got used to it slowly.

This is all deliberately changing.

How is it changing?  Slowly and globally.  The same future in Hong Kong is the future for Desert Hot Springs.  The same future in Beijing is the same future in Palm Springs.  The same future in the Philippines is the same future in Indio.

But!  They are all changing for different reasons.  The local cultures and traditions and local governments dictate the reasons for why they are changing but the outcomes are all the same.  Higher and higher costs for the citizens in all the cities listed above, tighter and tighter living conditions in all of the cities listed above, longer and longer work hours needed to eat and have a roof over a head in all of the cities listed above, and year after year acceptance of these constantly increasing pressures on the people that walk their sidewalks just like we do here in DHS.

So what are the things that are the same when it comes to comparing Hong Kong to Desert Hot Springs?  Easy!  Again, the outcomes are the same.  People are suffering heavily in Hong Kong right now.  They pay almost $300 per month for a home the size of a tiny car.  They call them cage apartments in Hong Kong because it’s about the size of a lion cage and it is made with the same kinds of bars.

See what the sad and pathetic life is like in Hong Kong after government has ruined it for the people there in this video below.

And what are the leaders of Desert Hot Springs proposing?  Tiny Homes, and pack up and stack up tiny apartments.  The tiny homes are the size of a small kitchen that will be all there is to move in.  It’s like a shed with an air conditioner.  And the pack up and stack up housing will be under 1000 square feet and it will cost you close to $2000 a month to rent it.

What else are they doing in Hong Kong that they are doing here?  Restricting land use.  This herds people into the cities by keeping people incapable of developing communities in other more rural parts of Hong Kong that are perfectly fine to develop on if it weren’t for the government there.

Are our city leaders they really restricting land use in Desert Hot Springs?  You Betcha!  Again, the outcome is the same but how they do it is tailored to meet the culture and region that it’s occurring in.

The Coachella Valley Association of Governments is even having a giant party to celebrate how much land they’ve blocked off.  They call it “The Celebration of Ten Years of Habitat Conservation.”

Will prices ever significantly go down for things like bread and housing in Desert Hot Springs?  It’s highly unlikely while we’re using fractional reserve currency, backed by nothing, that we will.  The only time we may see the cost of things go down is when they convert us over to a digital currency.  Facebook has just introduced the mark of the beast payment method called “Libra”.  It’s a cryptocurrency that will be tied to the internet and it’s ultimate purpose will be to starve you out if you misbehave.  Because if you don’t hold the door for that little old lady in the coming decades you won’t be able to buy a loaf of bread.  You will be in facebook money jail for 7 days.

The plan that is the same across all continents to shrink your living space and drive your costs up will ultimately leave you without a sense of history about your great city of Desert Hot Springs.  In the future no one will talk about historic route 66 running through our city.  No one will talk about our views anymore because they will be too busy  struggling to see daylight from their tiny homes.  No one will notice the cooler temperatures than Palm Springs has while they wait for a bus to take them to their job that their old Volvo used to do for them until it got too expensive to own that piece of Swedish craftsmanship.

How will they do this?  Very slowly.

CVAG is right now today gobbling up land at a rate of hundreds of acres at a time and stamping them as habitats.  Hong Kong did a very similar thing.  Land in the Coachella Valley was stolen from the people by their own governments so that the rightful owners of it (the people) could not use it as they saw fit.  Land that could easily be developed is being fenced off and taken over by governments here in the Coachella valley in order to reverse your course out of the city and make you turn back into the city to look for housing.

Right now the State of California is pushing heavily to build 4000 high density homes (apartments) in Desert Hot Springs.  This will create a tightly packed future not unlike current day living in Hong Kong.

Right now the Federal Government is welcoming a thousand new illegal immigrants a day into the United States watering down wages so that your raise will be on hold indefinitely.  Because there are people crossing the Rio Grande river right now that will take your job and do it for half of what your employer is paying you right now.

The outcome is the same in Hong Kong as it will be here in Desert Hot Springs.  The only difference is that Hong Kong got there before us.  Their wages are low, their cost of living is high.  And their housing choices got more and more limited due to land use restrictions just like Desert Hot Springs.

When you have a high number of people competing for the same apartment it drives the cost of the apartment up.  It’s simple supply and demand.

We have in the Coachella Valley CVAG acquiring massive amounts of land and legislating it off limits to live on in the same way that Hong Kong has done in that country.

Again the outcome is the same there as it is going to be here.

And this is only a small part of the larger globally all encompassing plan to erase not only Desert Hot Springs, but every other town people call home.

The memories of the brightest things about Desert Hot Springs will be replaced with the daily thoughts hardship and struggle inflicted on us people in DHS on purpose.

That is the coming erasure of Desert Hot Springs.

 

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