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California Got What It Wanted
... Our elites liked the idea of stopping new gas and oil extraction, shutting down the nuclear power industry, freezing state east-west freeways, strangling the mining and timber industries, cutting off water to agriculture in the Central Valley, diverting revenues from fixing roads and bridges to redistributive entitlements, and praising the new multicultural state that would welcome in half the nation’s 11-15 million illegal aliens. Better yet, the red-state-minded “they” (the nasty upper one-percent who stole from the rest of us due to their grasping but superfluous businesses) began to leave at the rate of 3,000 a week, ensuring the state a Senator Barbara Boxer into her nineties.
Yes, we are proud that we have changed the attitude, lifestyle, and demography of the state, made it “green,”and have the highest paid public employees and the most generous welfare system—and do not have to soil our hands with nasty things like farming, oil production, or nuclear power. And now we are broke. Our infrastructure is crumbling and an embarrassment. My environs is known as “Zimbabwe” or “Appalachia” for its new third-world look that followed from about the highest unemployment and lowest per capita income in the nation. Again, thanks to the deep South, our schools are not quite last in reading and math.
Hansen's analysis of the situation in Greece seems accurate, but I don't think the comparison with California is apt at all. Greece was/is very old and at a the very end of its former glory with citizens content to laze away their lives. California was/is the epitome of action, ingenuity, new ideas and optimism now given way to what? Malaise, the invitability of decline? The Golden State now leaden with disarray and discouraged?
I sure hope it'll bounce back because four of my grandchildren are Calfornia boys and girls and want a future of plenty and opportunity for them and their friends, not a third world.
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