I have to agree. The state’s budget has a structural deficit, and the funny money is going to run out in the next four years. To use your analogy, the patient is dead, they’ve been smackin’ the paddles on him repeatedly in the last two years... and they can’t seem to get a normal heartbeat restored. Sooner or later, the crash cart is going to run outta juice and someone is going to call a TOD.
California has real, deep structural fiscal problems that cannot be solved without a very gung-ho fiscally conservative legislature, and that’s not going to happen. Ever.
I think it would be much smarter for the GOP to stand back and let the state go down in flames in the next two years, then use California and Michigan as examples of what happens when liberals are allowed to run a state into the ground in the ‘12 election.
Thanks for the support. I think you have outlined my thoughts in a more organized, meaningful and informative manner than I.
How much you wanna bet CA will still be standing in 2012?