It goes to show that once you feed the bears, they’ll never go back to providing for themselves again. Freebies rule! You can’t fix stupid.
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.
“...a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collpases over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship.”
-possibly from Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (October 15, 1747 – January 5, 1813) was a Scottish-born British lawyer and writer.