Well, my point is, California is already America's economic powerhouse, and in the top ten economic heavyweights on the planet. No state comes close.
But one could imagine what it could be with smaller, legitimate, less controlling, less corrupt government, where government labor unions were dissolved.
What needs to be done.
1. Dissolve all state government labor unions immediately!
2. Substantially reduce salaries, wages and benefits across the board and this includes those already retired.
3. Audit the entire state government all they way down to the overpaid formally unionized janitors.
4. After the audit, prosecute the corrupt and terminate every single person who caused and was responsible for reckless spending and corrupt budgets. This alone will eliminate thousands.
5. Those found responsible for reckless mismanagement and criminal activity will forfeit their government retirement pensions and be prosecuted if the evidence supports it.
I am talking Nuremberg type trials and hearings, for these corrupt government criminals.
Same thing needs to happen in Congress at the national level.
No joke.
I like the way you think. I always though we needed to have Nuremberg style trials in the U.S. after the fall of Communism to bring to justice all the Americans who committed treason in service to the Soviet Union — plus anyone who embraced Communism or Marxim in any form.
I believe in the notion that certain ideas are in themselves totalitarian and to the extent they are embraced, they lead to tyranny. Marxism and socialism are such ideas. Those who advocate them, whether they admit it or not, are traitors already in their hearts and should not be allowed to hold positions of resopnsibility in our American institutions. Should not be allowed to hold public office. Should not be allowed to teach in our universities and schools. Should not be allowed to be judgets. They should be exposed and driven out of the entertainment industry. Etc., etc., etc.
We needed then and today an old-fashioned Commie witch-hunt.