The Dems are doing CA just right.
They sure are doing CA... right into bankruptcy. CA elects a leftist loony Democrat legislature. Businesses and productive CA citizens are leaving in droves. So what does the legislature do to correct this mess???? From todays Las Vegas Review Journal...
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Till daddy takes the T-bird away
And you thought California had run out of wacky ideas!
California set a record of sorts, this year. If you don't count new immigrants arriving on our shores from foreign lands (who are thus unlikely to know any better), the Golden State lost population.
More Americans are moving out of California than are moving in, reversing a trend that dates all the way back to the Dust Bowl.
Why? What happened to this golden land of opportunity, where the Wilson brothers used to sing about the endless waves, the endless sun ... a culture so prosperous even teenagers could cruise a T-bird through the hamburger stand, now?
The redistributionists got hold of it and turned it into a dysfunctional fascist nanny state, is what happened.
On the bright side, this is great news for states such as Nevada, likely locales for ex-California business owners running for the border, seeking to relocate their jobs and their income streams to a saner, more predictable environment.
So pardon our self-interest, but ... bring it on, California! The loonier the better!
Banning leaf blowers and charcoal grills wasn't enough. No. Sending multi-page forms to small publishers seeking to sell a single book to a California state library, requiring them to certify the "racial diversity" of their mom-and-pop work force? Not enough! Go further! Please!
For instance, how about offering rewards to workers who sue their bosses over dirty jokes overheard at the water cooler? Yes! Just when you think you've named something so silly and counterproductive even the Californians wouldn't do it, the California state Assembly OKs a bill that would allow workers to sue their bosses over purported minor labor violations.
OK'd Thursday by the Assembly on a 41-34 vote, the bill was immediately decried as a "job killer" by a few more level-headed Republican lawmakers, who warned it will create a plethora of frivolous lawsuits, actually encouraging disgruntled workers to seek fines by snitching on their employers ... by allowing them to keep 25 percent of the fine for themselves.
And imagine the "whistle-blower" lawsuit should one of these snitches subsequently lose his job!
The bill, authored by the brilliant and creative Sen. Joe Dunn, D-Santa Ana, would allow workers to gin up fines against their employers starting at $100 for each employee per pay period for the first violation, and $200 per employee per pay period for subsequent violations -- and pay the disgruntled employees a 25 percent commission for dreaming the stuff up.
"Without government enforcement, there is only one option and that's private enforcement," explains Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento.
(What this is really all about is that California's Democrats don't believe their own labor department is aggressive enough in fining employers. Their proof? There are still some employers left.)
Assemblyman John Benoit, R-Bermuda Dunes, foresees aggressive California lawyers seeking out disgruntled employees in advertisements that ask, "Have you been fired or criticized by your boss? Are you unhappy with your employer? I can help."
"The potential for abuse is huge," Mr. Benoit says.
But what Democrat has ever met a trial lawyer he didn't like?
Oh, and that business about "cruising just as fast as she can now"? Did we mention that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, leading in the race to replace disgraced Gov. Gray Davis, now wants to ration gasoline?
Oh, yes. Keep going, please. We couldn't have dreamed this stuff up if we'd tried. And we used to wonder why they called it "the entertainment capital of the world" ... even though most of the movies are now filmed in Canada. |
