Take a drive on one of California’s once scenic highways, they are now lined with trash, and overpasses are pock marked with gang graffiti. I guess when you support millions of welfare illegals, little things like highway maintenance are too costly.
The surface streets are not much better. On Saturday night I hit a pothole on Harbor Drive in San Diego. For those unfamiliar with San Diego, Harbor Drive is major thoroughfare - a divided six lane road and the principal access road for our airport. The impact blew out my front left tire. The AAA repair person said I was his third customer in two weeks who had hit that pothole. I will make a claim against the city. Eventually, the city will send out one of our classic road repair crews: one guy digging and three guys watching him dig. When I lived in Orange County in the mid-Sixties, California had the best roads and public schools in the world. Now they are among the worst in the nation. I believe the principal reason for our decline has been the unionization of public employees, but there are other causes as well.