"With no end in sight to the budget impasse, Governor Schwarzenegger has announced that layoff notices will be put in the mail today for the first group of up to 10,000 state employees to be laid off. He has also suspended the last 275 state-funded public works projects still in operation since he has no way to pay for them."
To imagine that the Golden State" where I was born and raised has gone so far down the toilet is hard to believe. Yet everything that I've seen, heard or experienced about CA in the last ~15 years has pointed steadily in this direction -- downwards.
It's not nearly hit the bottom yet -- the state is not yet at the status of a Third World Shithole yet, but we can see it from here.
This accelerating decline has been incredibly fast. The state built the aviation industry in WWII, gave us Governor Ron Reagan in the 1960s, Howard Jarvis' tax revolt in the 1970s, President Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s, and George Deukmejian's billion-dollar surplus in 1985. Since the mid-1980s, this has all been squandered, leaving a depressing residue of entitlement and greed.
The Future? -- I need a drink!
The proximity to Mexico (whose impending catastrophic failure will be discussed in a later post) and the 1986 immigration act are only parts of CA's failure. The root cause is ultimately in an electorate that has grown fat and lazy -- this is true of most failed societies since ancient times.
But why and how did this society fail so rapidly? Thoughts?
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