Here’s a good article on why California (where I called home for 19 years) is such a basket case:
California Crack-up
THE PERFECT STORM
CALIFORNIA BEGETS A NATIONAL LOSS OF INNOCENCE
ONE-PARTY RULE IN CALIFORNIA
THE DISHONESTY OF SOCIALIST ONE PARTY-RULE
MUCH OF OBAMA’S AGENDA IS ALREADY IN PLACE IN CALIFORNIA
THERE’S HOPE FOR A SECOND GREAT CALIFORNIA TAX REVOLT
Although I am [...]
The senator said she didn’t think all responsibility for solving these problems should be vested in the Treasury Department, suggesting that “once we get through this immediate crisis,” the country should look at some Great Depression-era type of governmental entity to deal with it. -Article
Liberal politicians love these problems, because when things get rough, people [...]
Robert Samuelson writes in Newsweek:
“The aging of America is not just a population change or, as a budget problem, an accounting exercise. It involves a profound transformation of the nature of government: commitments to the older population are slowly overwhelming other public goals; the national government is becoming mainly an income-transfer mechanism from younger workers [...]
Tonight’s presidential debate was quite a bit better than I anticipated. Usually, these “town hall debates” do little but showcase the ignorance of the voting populace. But this time, I was pleasantly surprised because most of the questions were actually decent questions. Of course, anybody paying attention to the campaigns already knows the answers to [...]
It looks like the Republican party is about to win a big political victory by getting a prescription drug “benefit” through. This may be a political victory for the Republicans (because they are denying the Democrats the victory), but this is an economical disaster for the United States. This has got to be the biggest [...]