Leadership and vision was promised but so far a free ride on the coat tails of an angry, determine, grassroots is all that has been offered. The moderates swoon at the early victories, not willing to admit that their newly crowned king, through political slight of hand, managed to beat the mob to the punch. Both the illegal VLF increase and the absolutely irrational dispensing of the benefits of citizenship to the unqualified and undeserving were already headed to hell in a handbasket when the new king, in collusion with a freightened legislature, triped up the mob/courts just long enough to give the appearence that they had, single handedly, pushed the rotting carcasses over the cliff. Some leadership.
Which brings us to the resoltuion of California's short term cash flow crunch. Understanding that California has more than enough juice to meet it's structural needs, just not enough to support the world's poor, the leadership plan offered was blinding. Let's borrow more money so we don't have to make the long overdue and necessary adjustments in our utopian, social spending. And for good measure let's enact a statute, the spending cap, that takes the heat off of anyone without a spine. No leadership, just "The cap made me do it".
Let's preserve just enough of business and borrow $15B so we can continue "our" programs. Hopefully the moderates will choke on it.
And let's tie increases in spending to increases in population. As if allowing 30 million illegal immigrants into Kalifornia, for example, would justify doubling the state's budget.