Desalinization...will happen at some point..if we survive that long...
It’s a bit of a mis-statement to say “losing its ability to cope with crises” when the truth is that progressive governance has created the crises.
California has met the future, and it really doesn’t work.
The hard truth is that Utopia is unsustainable, a concept that too many in California love to scold the rest of us about.
Socialism is the fraudulent idea that we will individually and collectively be better off spiritually and economically when we live at the expense of each other. To that end, we must allow others to take our income and wealth from us, just as we take it from them. The fundamental structure of this violates the Ten Commandments that forbid lies, coveting and theft.
From a secular standpoint, none other than Vaclav Havel showed in his essay The Power of the Powerless [1] that socialism induces a moral corruption in every interaction people have, when truth itself must be suppressed to sustain the political ideals that elites are attempting to force society to adopt in their lives. This stirring essay tells us what living hell life in a socialist Utopia really is.
The economist Ludwig von Mises showed in 1920 [2,3] that since a socialist economy destroys price information via government intrusion, the myriad of participants in the economy are unable to make a fully rational calculation about true profit and loss. Any economic activity that operates at a loss cannot be “sustainable”, a concept the left loves to scold us about, yet cannot really grasp.
Taking another approach, the Nobel economist F.A. Hayek showed that a national economy had such an immense myriad of dynamic economic relationships that no single committee or bureaucracy, no matter how smart or how well staffed, could possibly know enough to direct prices or production levels. His Nobel Lecture [4] was entitled The Pretence of Knowledge. Hayek had previously used this idea as the basis for a very thorough article [5] on the subject, “The Use of Knowledge in Society.”
Some American (and Canadian) elites seek to make their countries more like Europe, but the costs of socialism make it morally, socially and economically unsustainable. We see this in the socialist vanguard of Greece and how utterly impoverished socialism is making their economy. We are headed in that direction.
[1] Václav Havel: The Power of the Powerless
http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/showtrans.php?cat=clanky&val=72_aj_clanky.html&typ=HTML
http://bit.ly/4bqmRu
[2] Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig von Mises
http://mises.org/pdf/econcalc.pdf
[3] Why a Socialist Economy is “Impossible” by Joseph T. Salerno
http://mises.org/econcalc/POST.asp
[4] The Pretense of Knowledge
http://mises.org/daily/3229
[5] “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” American Economic Review, XXXV, No. 4; September, 1945, pp. 519–30.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=92
http://bit.ly/wne9GU
Well hey, look at other great Democrat success stories like Detroit and Chicago. Or Chevy Chase’s pronouncement of Cuba is a good example of how you can have socialism and capitalism and do very well. Shouldn’t Governor Moonbeam be part of this as well? (joke).
Very good article.
Especially the definition of what the national GOPe has become:
“But the business leadership often seems to be more concerned with how to adjust the status quo to serve privileged large businesses, including some in agriculture, than boosting the overall economy.”
I believe the problem is that America is constantly sending ever more jobs to China.
Both parties are 100% participating in this.
The GOP, is every bit as bad as the democrats. Our trade deficit with China is at an all-time high last year, and is getting even worse this year.
Nobody is looking out for America’s future anymore.
Nobody.
All it would take is five or six major desal plants and the thorium reactors to power them and the whole problem goes away. This is a man-made calamity all the way, basically the wretched work of Malthusians and greentards.
its called becoming Mexico
CA will soon look like scenes from “Mad Max” or worse.
This is what happens under one party, democrat governance.
And .. states around CA are having some Boom .. in some cities. Basically, non-liberals.
What’s left .. seniors who cannot make a move; and/or illegals. Mark Levin said, “You can’t have tyranny until you destroy the middle class.”
This formula is TYRANNY..!!!!!!
Thanks, I bookmarked his site.
I moved to California in 1978. Indeed, the author has accurately and clearly describes the situation here. Victor Davis Hanson also writes persuasively about how the greens have created the two-tier feudal system here. He is from Selma, CA, a now impoverished farming town now completely overrun by illegals and crime.
You can’t have a successful state that quadruples in population over 50 years but builds almost no new infrastructure and warmly welcomes illegals as well as welfare deadbeats from all over the nation.
It’s because of the incestuous relationship between the DEMOCRATIC party in California, the liberals, socialists and the communists, and these “GLOBAL WARMING” idiots. Oh, the Lame Stream Media is helping this along, because they are part of the scam. The ordinary citizen doesn’t have a chance. The only option the ordinary citizen has is to leave the state.
California has been mugged by liberalism. Let’s hope they will move to the right.
Obviously, the right people aren't in charge.
Joel Kotkin? The guy who wrote glowing articles about the New Los Angeles back in the 90’s, how massive numbers of Mexicans would remake LA into a glittering multi-cultural salsa paradise?
That Joel Kotkin? Now he says there never was enough water and we all knew it?
Don’t recall him saying a damn thing about it.
Soon he’ll be denying he ever said anything nice about The Sacred Hispanic Masses.
The left, progressives, liberals, whatever you want to call them, have destroyed California. It’s just a damn shame. And they have learned nothing from it.
democrats
California has become Mehico’s broke cousin. The Gay Caballero With No Dinero.