California's 40 million residents now use freeways designed for a population of 20 million.
California's 40 million residents now use freeways designed for a population of 20 million.
Wow. Next time try width=”600px”
Crumbling infrastructure in those pictures.
Dare I say it?
Collapsenifornia!
Not just crumbling infrastructure, but obama-scratch grafitti, too. California is so barack ghettobama.
This leaves me shaking my head, as the daughter of California pioneers. As a new bride in 1959 I moved from CA to IL and was astonished to see the mid-west suffering from annual floods, droughts, and other weather events. I couldn’t understand it. California, my native state, had controlled the weather and the water supply. Water was collected in reservoirs during the wet season and distributed statewide, as needed.
Californians no longer suffered from the floods that had once stranded ships on dry land in the Sacramento Valley in the late 1800s (North Central Valley) or repeated floods in my home town of Fresno that dissolved adobe houses in the 1920s. Farmers had water when they turned a valve, and everybody else had a chain of lakes for unlimited recreational use.
The University system had capped its flagship Universities at 26,000 top students each, leaving much of the rest of the education burden to the State colleges (which could not offer PhDs), and the Jr. colleges which were free to all with a high school diploma.
Why couldn’t other states be so advanced in their thinking and their planning, I asked?
I’d ask where it all went wrong, but I was back in CA and witnessed that downturn in the 1960s and 1970s with the influx of draft dodgers and radical youth from the east looking for a cheap education and freedom from their parents’ rules.
What a mess it has become.
Thanks for posting. Enjoy VDH.
LOL! Very good article by VDH. Thanks for posting.
It's a microcosm of tax and spend marxist micro-mismanagement.
yes, and California’s 40 million residents now also use a water supply system designed for 2o million at best
"According to estimates from 2011, California has the largest minority population in the United States by numbers, making up 60% of the state population"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California#Racial_and_ancestral_makeup