In article , "Dick Carroll;"
writes:

N2EY wrote:

In article , "Dick Carroll;"

writes:

"Steve Robeson, K4CAP" wrote:

California became the most populated state in the USA many years
ago. Many, many, many folks moved here because THEY liked it.

And now it's one of the most highly taxed, crime ridden places in
the United States.

They face a $35BILLION budget shortfall for *this year* and they're not
finished counting yet. All those
"feel good" deals, and Putzie's vaunted emergency services bills coming
due.
Wonder what will be left when
it all settles out?
Quick and dirty math, that's at least $1000 for each citizen,
man-woman-child
residing there. One has to wonder when the big exodus will begin. So
they're
about to fire their Governor,
not that he could have done much to avoid it all.

And what will his replacement do to fix it?

From all I've read and heard, the reason for all these California crises
(remember the electric energy emrgency?) comes from a fundamental failure
of
the system and the voters there to connect rights with responsibilities.
IOW,
services are not connected to taxes.

They vote in all sorts of mandates but not the taxes to fund them.

And wouild you like to guess who's voting all that into being?

The voters

Hint: It's not the conservatives!

Seems like Liberalism is about to devout itself in the Sunshine State.

Actually, it's both. The "liberals" vote in the mandates. The "conservatives"
block the taxes. Both sides disconnect rights from responsibilities. You get
the worst of both worlds.

Look at their electric "deregulation" of a few years back. The retail prices
were regulated (classic big government utility/monopoly idea) but the wholesale
prices weren't (classic laissez-faire trickle-down supply-side
free-market-capitalism).

Coupled with that was the desire for high tech jobs and investment (Silicon
Valley) but not the responsibility to build the infrastructure to run it
(power lines, generating stations).

End result: Lotta people's lights went out.

73 de Jim, N2EY