Hey, California – Go To Hell.
This is who you elected as your governor.
Hear us, California. You have allowed public employee unions to destroy your economy, ruin your public fisc and corrupt your political process. Your coddling of illegal aliens has turned you into a third-world society and balkanized your cities.
You have reached bottom. And last night you were given an opportunity to begin coming back.
You chose to continue diving.
So be it. But when Jerry Brown runs off whatever businesses are left in your state and fiscal implosion results, don’t come to the rest of us for help.
None will be forthcoming. We have our own problems. And your refusal to even acknowledge yours – you just elected a man who thinks “renewable energy” and “public education” hold the key to the future of the state – makes you unfit for our assistance.
No bailouts. No accomodations. It’s time for you to burn.
Elections have consequences.
too bad that isn’t even remotely realistic. California is critical to the economy of the country at-large… so we’re inheriting any problems they have like it or not.
At one point the same was said about the economy of Michigan.
California will be a drag on the rest of us, but only to the extent that our politicians allow them to be.
“You chose to continue diving.”
IMO, they continue to go dumpster diving.
Chris, they are relying on people like you who bend to the argument that they are too big to fail….but if California were to fall off into the Pacific Ocean the rest of the country would not weep for them. Just like we rebuild after a disaster, we are capable of living without California. As long as we let them go down the road they do, where they rely on the rest of us to bail them out, we will be the ones to pay.
Let them fail as they’ve done it to themselves. In order to become solvent they’ll have to tell the public employee unions and their retired members to stuff it.
It’s hard to believe how stupid they are to bring back Governor Moonbeam and I’m no Ma’am Boxer…. sheesh.