Is this just a case of “the fix is in” or white guilt for the poor unemployed and downtrodden Mexican or a cheap way to help a money strapped local government or plain stupidity and/or a combination of all the above?
New York jokes aside, recall that Orange County went bankrupt about a decade back because of bad investments ( er, "gambling" ) that the County Treasurer had engaged in.
I suspect that cost controls since then have been rabid. So a little risky business was not beneath them.
Wonder how many people had their bank accounts emptied, or suddenly found tens of thousands in credit card charges, or found out that they actually didn't live in Orange County at all, but in fact are a hispanic male living in downtown Phoenix and working as a sheetrocker?
The possibilities are endless....unfortunately.