[El Cid]

RE: 4
I think of the liberal voters in CA as high school girls who were just given a credit card by daddy, who then go out on an endless shopping spree because all they see is that they get cool stuff. They don't see the bill come back to daddy later and actual money change hands, so they don't associate their runaway spending with actual money.

Good analogy, but what really destroys the system (and this is also true on a Federal level), is that when you have 50% of the Population not paying income tax -- they see very little incentive to control spending.

Add on top of that the ~20% that work for the Government, and therefore benefit by expansion of Government and increased Government spending ... the Republic is fairly well cooked...

[wac3rd]

The result of growing Government spending and hiring (lifetime-paid) at all levels is an economic reality known as deficits and higher taxation.

Government makes nothing. It eats and craps but provides nothing in the way of economic growth.

Cops are needed and so are teachers, on 401K’s with a small match, not the bonanza of CALPERS.

It never ends, until we all leave and it’s ceded back to the Mexicans.