Both my PBS channels are pleading between each program to everyone to call their CA Senator or Representative to try and head this off. There’s a strong hint of anxiety and potential dispare in their plea!!!
Liberals never understood that in a booming economy it is easy to convince soccer moms to be generous. After all jobs are plenty and their husbands are making good money. In a recession when hubbie is barely hanging onto their jobs and neighbors are losing theirs, those money carefree soccer moms are not so carefree anymore.
If liberals want generous gov social programs they need to support free market capitalism that can expand economy and produce tons of jobs, and with it increases in tax revenues and willing generosity of independents to pay to save children, animals, trees, etc, etc, etc. Kill the economy, you scare the generous ones and the wallets are shut tight and support grows for gov budget cuts. PBS and NPR are liberal and well educated, they know the score. They should be afraid and very afraid.