Destroying the economic hopes of low income people in order to stoke the self esteem of entitled Boomers is not Via Meadia’s idea of progressive politics, but that just goes to show how backwards we are by the exalted moral standards of the California elites.
The destruction of California isn’t a victimless crime. Millions of low income California residents are trapped in decaying cities where, thanks in large part to narcissistic green unicorn chasers, the manufacturing base has withered away. And anything that blights California, blights us all. America and the world need California back on line; the Golden State has too much to offer for anyone to remain indifferent to its fate.
Unfortunately, for now, the lunatics continue to run the asylum in Sacramento.
Little known fact: Skynet, the artificial intelligence in The Terminator, nuked LA (and left empty skulls everywhere) only after calculating millions of possible outcomes. Judgement Day and complete takeover by robots was the only way to cut public pensions and restore California’s manufacturing sector.
I hate saying this, but I hope California crashes hard. I think there needs to be some pain, because the majority of voters there have richly earned it. I just hope it’s fast rather than slow (a short sharp shock instead of lost decades), but they (the majority there) are going to have to suffer a lot to open their eyes, apparently.
I hate saying this because I know that there are a lot of good people in California (the non-insane) and they’d suffer too. And also, I have a fondness for the place; I was born and raised there.
Maybe they’ll wake up in time… but I doubt it. Even in the teeth of this economic crisis they are still going gaga for the green nonsense, when it’s obvious it hurts their economy.
I’d bet your parents named you Arizona because they saw this coming. 🙂
I think we’ve already been seeing an effect that will make the crash much worse than otherwise, which is that the economic decline creates more dependency, adding to the voting block that’s straining the system. This effect probably added signicantly to Jerry Brown’s election. There was a similar effect from Allied bombing of Nazi Germany, one that we didn’t correctly anticipate. As we bombed people out of their homes, we made them more dependent on the state, and thus the Nazi party, instead of shaking their morale and causing them to turn on their government. The cycle didn’t end until the fire fights around Hitler’s bunker petered out.
Be careful what you wish for.
As California collapses, the people who’ve been voting themselves free stuff for the last few decades will move to more viable states and start voting for free stuff until they’ve destroyed the economy there too.
Would probably be a good idea to hand California to Mexico one night when no-one is looking, then build a wall to keep them out.
As bad as California is, Illinois will probably beat them to bankruptcy.
Of course, even though city governments can legally declare bankruptcy, state governments can not. And unlike the Federal Government, a state government can’t print more money to pay off its debts. So I wonder just what will happen?
If Obama is President at the time, he will probably push for a bailout just as he bailed out the UAW when GM and Chrysler went bankrupt.
I don’t have much hope for them. They say that they like “green,” then treat as demons from hell two of the fundamental things required for a green planet: warm temperatures and carbon dioxide.
A mentality capable of that degree of disintegrated thought isn’t going to learn any lessons from any kind self-inflicted disaster.
“I hate saying this, but I hope California crashes hard. I think there needs to be some pain, because the majority of voters there have richly earned it. I just hope it’s fast rather than slow…”
Took the USSR 80 years.
And tens of millions of lives.
California is just at the beginning…..
And then there’s the bleat of collectivists down through the ages and all over the world:
“Next time we’ll get it right.”
Oh, I’d argue they’re at least a couple decades along the process.
“Judgement Day and complete takeover by robots was the only way to cut public pensions and restore California’s manufacturing sector.”
Crummy search algorithm..they didn’t think of the Matrix… 😉
Well once you realize public employees don’t actually generate 75 watts of power per person, then the Matrix alternative fails hard. And dead public employees don’t collect pensions.
Green energy lunacy isn’t the only thing killing California.
Taking a drive on the interstate highways, the dustbowl conditions imposed on California agriculture by Green water policies are manifestly evident. These rural areas are also beginning to suffer a breakdown in basic rule of law too. Hanson provides a shocking description of what life there is like.
http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/welcome-to-the-california-outback/