[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

California, along with much of the rest of this country, is galloping toward the same miserable outcome. Once Constitutional protections for private property had been usurped, and the politicians could say “elect ME, and I’ll give you a benefit and make somebody else pay for it”, the game was over.

[Hawthorn]

>> California, along with much of the rest of this country, is galloping toward the same miserable outcome. <<

Well, at least California has this advantage over Greece:

It wasn't ruled by the Ottoman Turkish Empire for 600-or-so years.

But a little voice tells me that rule by an Austrian is almost as bad!