OT/Gina. The continuing crisis in CA can easily occupy our full attention
with the specific items that need immediate attention.
But there really is an underlying cause to all the years of misguided, perhaps even self destructive policy as well as the obvious unwillingness to, even now, face the obvious realities of these wrong headed approaches.
IMHO, CA is a dramatic and quite extraordinary example of:
A predominantly left leaning socio/political cultural consensus that, for many years, has been suffering from a fatally flawed understanding of the factors that make a modern economy function to support and advance the overall well being of its citizens.
For years, statement after statement from CA political, and environmental leaders reflect not only ignorance of but also a deeply felt fundamental hostility toward mainstream American capitalism. With so many negative and distorted views towards private business it's not hard to understand the pattern of destructive restrictions, regulations and prohibitions on business so it's now become impossible for the private sector to provide essential services.
As this damaging accumulation of anti-biz public policy has built up to the crisis level, the entire society is paying a huge price for the self destructive ideology that has fostered it.
It's sad. But it was bound to happen sooner or later.
Unless a fundamental change is made to bring the economic philosophy of policy makers more into the American mainstream where private businesses are not just tolerated but encouraged? IMHO CA will regularly plunge from one economic crisis' to another in the years ahead.
What's also interesting, is the total disconnect from the realization that the currently prevailing ideology which is evidenced in everything that's led up to the current situation has much in common with the fundamentally flawed economic views which brought about the eventual collapse of living standards around the world in socialist dominated societies.
BTW, did Babs Streisand and Alec Baldwin expatriot, as the threatened to do, after George W. won the election?(G).
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