According to BigFurHat at iowntheworld.com:
From the globe and the mail
Arnella Sims has seen a lot in her 34 years as a Los Angeles County court reporter, but nothing like this
“People think we’re becoming a Third World country,” said Ms. Sims, 55.
It’s a story that’s being repeated all across California – and throughout the United States – as cash-strapped state and local governments grapple with collapsed tax revenues and swelling budget gaps. Mass layoffs, slashed health and welfare services, closed parks, crumbling superhighways and ever-larger public school class sizes are all part of the new normal.
California’s fiscal hole is now so large that the state would have to liberate 168,000 prison inmates and permanently shutter 240 university and community college campuses to balance its budget in the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Think of California as Greece on the Pacific: bankrupt and desperately needing a bailout.
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This is not a mystery. California is the petri dish of unfettered progressivism. Bailing out California would be like bailing out the Titanic, today. Cut that state loose. Give it to Mexico, as is.
