A must read from Victor Davis Hanson.
California is on the brink of financial disaster. High taxes, burdensome regulations, steep deficits and a do-nothing state legislature have combined to create a perfect storm of problems for the once Golden State.
No one has explained the situation in California better than PJ Columnist Victor Davis Hanson, who compared the state to the impoverished world of the future shown in George Miller's 1981 post-apocalyptic film "The Road Warrior":
Sometimes, and in some places, in California I think we have nearly descended into Miller's dark vision -- especially the juxtaposition of occasional high technology with premodern notions of law and security. The state deficit is at $16 billion. Stockton went bankrupt; Fresno is rumored to be next. Unemployment stays over 10% and in the Central Valley is more like 15%. Seven out of the last eleven new Californians went on Medicaid, which is about broke. A third of the nation's welfare recipients are in California. In many areas, 40% of Central Valley high school students do not graduate -- and do not work, if the latest crisis in finding $10 an hour agricultural workers is any indication. And so on.
California: The Road Warrior Is Here
http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/california-the-road-warrior-is-here/?singlepage=true
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