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I’m not saying that Stockton fits the overall CA profile of neglectful excess, but I can tell you what I think befell California as a whole with respect to overinflated salaries, retirements, bailouts, etc.

These ‘officials’ spent their time pandering to the egos of the voter. Whether it be an extremely liberal approach to doing not-a-damned-thing about illegals, to imposing ridiculous conditions on building, living, or working via a myriad of insane regulations and laws, or just insulting the common good man’s morals.

Unfortunately, the illegals and the self-interested, self-satisfied, power-hungry liberal Democrats outnumbered the sane people in California. When California started pandering to illegals, queers, nutjobs, environmentalists and powermad liberals for the sake of votes, they saddled the worthy in the state with economic slavery and an IMPOSSIBLE debt - to which, the smarter ones have responded by leaving that state as Lott did with S&G.

The pensions are the consequence of decisions made when stock markets were soaring, technology money flooded the state,

I keep hearing this rationale for insane public pension plans, but the stock market and technology money never once reached a point where this kind of pension spending made even the remotest sense.

The simple fact of the matter is that our political class in the US is composed of people who aren't bright enough or competent enough to make it in private industry. And we let these people make funding decisions with our tax dollars, with the expected results.