[Joan Kerrey]

It doesn’t really matter who the governor is in California.
The public unions run the state and the state legislature do their bidding. Too many on the gravy train have too much to lose by addressing the problems.

A disaster is soon to come in this state and it won’t be pretty nor will the Governor, the legislature or the judgiciary be able to repair the damage. We’re doomed.

[23 Everest]

California, the next Detroit.

[mbs6]

It doesn’t really matter who the governor is in California. The public unions run the state and the state legislature do their bidding. Too many on the gravy train have too much to lose by addressing the problems.

Bingo. I've lived in CA and followed CA politics closely for most all of my life and I can confirm this is true. It will take a disaster (financial or otherwise) of cataclysmic proportions for Californians to wake up. Fifty years of public education, media which walk in liberal lockstep, and uncontrolled immigration have produced a state full of dependent, uninformed weaklings. My fellow Californians do indeed believe in a free lunch. They pretty much believe that money grows on trees. They also believe that the rich are holding out on the rest of us, and that if we seize their money and distribute it to the rest of us, we will all be made rich as well.

The truth is that the producers in our state have been enslaved by the consumers.