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California has many, many problems because the democrats are firmly in control, led by the most despised governor in the U.S., Gray (Say, is that a dollar in your pocket?) Davis.

The tort situation however is not as horrific as the true crisis of Mississippi or West Virginia.

I had neurosurgery last year. Not a perfect outcome, but I'm a complex case. I cannot imagine suing my talented surgeon for doing his best, just because the outcome isn't all I'd hoped for. I'm better off than I was--still have some pain, but I'm STABLE now anyway.

I imagine that if a lawyer got ahold of me, and if I happened to be stupider or less moral than I am, he or she could persuade me that I was damaged by the surgeon, and that I'm "entitled" to a hefty wad of cash.

The tort situation however is not as horrific as the true crisis of Mississippi or West Virginia.

(as compared to California)

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I would definitely agree about Mississippi, having seen the Sixty Minutes episode about
the personal (especially pharmaceutical) lawsuit gravy train in MS. (I just haven't
heard much about WV in this regard).

But, I will say that the current state budget criss in California...and Gray Davis'
recent appointment of former state legislator Steve Peace (San Diego, D) to be Davis'
main advisor in fixing this mess might push California ahead of MS in the race for
the financial bottom (on per-capita average).

As much as I expect Gray Davis to make decisions as if he was in a magic-mushroom
phase, I was shocked when he said Steve Peace was his choice to help him out of this
current state budget deficit.

Steve Peace gave California's the failed (easily-gamed) utilities "de-regulation"
(actually, RE-Regulation) scheme, as well as having produced the series of "cult" films
know to the world as "The Attack of The Killer Tomatoes".

Honest, I didn't know all this about Steve Peace until I heard it on The Michael Medved
Show on Friday and checked it out at www.imdb.com and the Los-Angeles-based "Daily News".

If someone had told me a governor of a major state (in the USA) would pick someone
like Steve Peace to fix a near-cataclysmic budget mess...I'd told them to
cut back on the hallucinogens...
...BUT, then again, we are talking California.