[Avoiding_Sulla]

Brown signed the bill (1975?) that allowed California public employees to be unionized. What more does anyone need to know past that?

[PA-RIVER]

I have a cousin in California. He bought his house for almost a million dollars. My detached 20 thousand dollar garage is almost the same size as his house.

I saw him recently and he looks frazzled. He talked about hopes that his property would not lose much more value. He is probably 250,000 under water. Bankruptcy is probably looking good to him now. Ten years ago he was a cocky confident arrogant snob. Today he is a different man.

California has figured out how to ignore reality for a generation. Sometimes, it seems, we almost beg for a good azz beating.