[Longbow1969]

It goes to show that once you feed the bears, they’ll never go back to providing for themselves again. Freebies rule!

The flaw in the democratic system is that people tend to vote for what they want, not what they need. Once a population learns they can vote themselves other people's money, well, the gig us up. California will not recover till it collapses completely. Only then will the current voters realize they can't continue down the same path - and even then they might refuse to accept it.

[billhilly]

California was the American dream in the first half of the last century. It was the American nightmare in the last half.

I had the opportunity to experience California at it’s zenith, thanks to the United States Air Force.