What a one party system has wrought.

[cardcrimson]

An interesting read:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/california-burnin-warning-against-one-120009131.html

 

[Cornfed]

Interesting read and confirms a lot of the worst information that I have come to believe about California.  I am glad to be in Texas.  Only my daughter is left and she lives in Petaluma.  She is talking about leaving soon.  My son got to Colorado several years ago.

I know of no one who has moved to California.  It represents a perfect example of the failure of liberal policies.  Yet those California residents to whom I still talk about the dire conditions that I perceive out there vehemently insist that articles such as this are just conservative propaganda and exaggerate the problems.

[Neodymium60]

2nd Law of Thermo applies to California.  To live in California implies that you will have to be very adaptive to what’s coming if you plan to stay.

You could make the case that California can be explained through energy  politics.   Green politics,   Oil.  Coal.  Water.  Nuclear.   The people of California have been educated into thinking about the future in terms of one central theme, global warming.  Solve that and you get utopia.  Shortages,  costs,  water problems, over-population, immigration.   These are just what you have to deal with until utopia.

What you end up with is an entire population that is far far from equilibrium.  Most of the western world at its worst is not as chaotic.  And as the energy problems worsen, so will the chaos.   And the media substitutes feelings for substance to make everyone feel better.

 

[cardcrimson]

Nope. Some of us are here till kids graduate. It is a high speed train that clearly has gone off the rails. Frankly, the rails weren’t even built, but they were paid for.

[Cornfed]

And rarely (never) mentioned is that Gray Davis worked out a deal with Enron that locked the State into energy prices set during a cyclical peak in market prices.  That deal was going to effect the budget for many years.

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