[Joe Hadenuf]

There is hardly enough money to cover basics like police, fire, roads and schools. The tax rates are already at the maxima of the Laffer curve.

This is idaho right?

This is where California is going fast. And I am looking forward to it.

That's why I am looking forward to the collapse of the entire state government of California. All programs and services will be cut to the bone which will force out a lot of low income types. And hopefully, they will tax enough people and jobs out of here, preferable millions where it too will affect the tax base in a very negative way. All the social services are just about choked off, roads, schools over crowded, and there is just very few, if any labor jobs left, only so many dishwasher and lawnmower postions open...... This is exactly why the destination for 90 percent of all illegal aliens is no longer California. This was all very predictable, and welcomed It I might add. LOL!

This is just what California needs. A complete collapse, under the shear weight of all this spending and illegal aliens. This is just what the doctor ordered. Paint it black, bring it on.

I hate to be so negative, but this is needed. Looking forward to it. The sooner the better.

[Myrddin]

There is a degree of schadenfreude in seeing the CA state government in financial collapse. It demonstrates the utter incompetency of the socialists that control the state government. The lucrative welfare benefits are a major league draw to illegals and homeless. The great weather encourages the "urban outdoorsman" to come to southern CA. San Diego even spends a pile of the taxpayer's money to open "cold weather" shelters to keep the homeless comfortable and "in town". The poverty pimps don't want to encourage them to find nicer digs elsewhere.

What seems odd is that you would welcome it. You are living on the battlefield. All those people living on the dole are going to find an alternative means of survival if the state can't provide it. Insurrection and increased property crimes are a likely outcome. The illegals streaming in from Mexico aren't reading the papers. They are mostly illiterate. They don't understand the impending collapse. Los Angeles is ripe for some major league gang violence. Living on the government dole provides spare time for dealin' and stealin'.

[Myrddin]

I did leave a point out about Idaho. Even though our revenues are way down, we have a constitutional requirement for a balanced budget. The legislature and governor are required to cut services if the money isn't there to spend. A budget with a deficit is unconstitutional in the state of Idaho. If California played by the same rules, they would admit that there is only $60 billion available to spend and cut services accordingly. There would be no "deficit". There would be quite a howl from the lefties.

[Morrigan]

I tend to agree with you on that, although I hate to think about all the real American citizens that will and are suffering because of it. There is a song about the destruction of California, and a line in it goes, "the only way to fix it is to flush it all away...."