CALIFORNIA IS BEING TURNED INTO A THIRD-WORLD CESSPOOL

What is happening to California is being experienced, or will likely be experience soon, by other states as well. That’s why I have chosen to reproduce some excerpts from Bob Walsh’s thoughts on the California experience.

SOME THOUGHTS ON STUFF IN GENERAL
By Bob Walsh

PacoVilla’s Corrections blog
December 18, 2009

The feds will not forget about the [prison] population cap legal action. ………. A massive release of prisoners is a realistic possibility in 1-2 years. The legislature will scream like mashed cats, but they will fiddle while Rome burns, blame the feds, and go back to their safe seats and still generous pay and very generous benefits and perks.

The legislature has spent money (our money) like a drunk sailor when they had it, and still spent it when they didn't have it. The electorate didn't care. A huge chunk of the electorate does not PAY income taxes, they're on the mooch. They don't give a rat's ass what the income tax rate is. We continue to elect the same people from the same parties over and over and over again.

Expect the two-tier retirement initiative to get on the ballot, and maybe to pass. If not this time then next time, after the excrement has well and truly hit the air circulation device.

Hope for the part-time legislature initiative to get on the ballot and hope for it to pass. They couldn't possibly do any worse than the "professional" legislature we have now. [The Texas legislature, for example, meets for only 140 calendar days and only during odd-numbered years. Special sessions, limited to 30 days, can be called by the governor.]

Hope that the state does not totally implode before some honest fiscal responsibility can get hold of things and pull us back to fiscal sanity.

California is still a beautiful, wonderful place. Unfortunately the roads and bridges are crumbling. Our school systems suck. The universities are to a large extent in the hands of liberal idiots. Much of our existence is regulated by appointed bureaucrats (federal and state) who want to impose their values and ideology on us (for our own good, because we are too stupid to know what's best for us).

Our fair state is being turned into a third-world cesspool. It will take a while to get there, but that is the direction we are moving in. The inertia of an economy and a way of life as large and grand as ours is massive. It is, however, not unstoppable. Enough people in positions of power and influence doing enough stupid things can destroy us. We are heading that way now. Rapidly. If we don't pull our collective head out of our collective ass, look around and do something about it, the formerly great state of California will become the new Appalachia. I hear banjos playing in the background, and they are getting louder.