California - Microcosm of Liberal/Progressive Self-Destruction

I've been following the corporate environment in California for some time. Many years ago I worked for companies based out of California, mainly San Jose. I was always amazed at how people could afford to live "out yonder". Taxes were through the roof; the cost of living in California was horribly high; it suffered from an infestation of illegals from the Southern border nations, as well as from China and Eastern Europe. Californians are swamped with violent gangs, drug running, and myopic progressives always whining about utopia, while they do nothing about the real issues they face. When asked to relocate I just shook my head and refused any attempt to move me out there, sometimes sacrificing a good career by refusing to relocate.

If you look at the California economy as a microcosm of the Liberal Progressive (LP) agenda you can begin seeing that the current business exodus, now a trickle, will soon be a torrent if the progressives don't regain some sanity. Like the LPs on the national political scene (and their European counterparts) ignorant, fat cat legislators have backed themselves into a corner from which they cannot remove themselves. For far too long, California state and local politicians have made promises to unions and taxpayers that could not be kept. There simply isn't enough "loose money" in all of the U.S. to pay union pensions, buy outs, health care costs, tree hugger demands, etc. Let me repeat - all that promised money is simply not available. Get over it!

Both sides are at fault. Unions, because forcing unsustainable contracts on state and local governments is the only way they have left to bring in union dues. The government officials did the usual thing...they 'kicked the proverbial financing can on down the road". "Not on my watch!!" didn't mean that no big problems would happen while those 'dufus' (an acronym for many unprintable invectives) politicos were in office...the phrase actually meant "I will never answer a question about how all these giveaways will be financed while I am in office!!"

There is good news emerging from CA's problems. First, Companies are relocating away from a predominately ultra-liberal but now disillusioned state population. This will bring more revenue into conservative, right-to-work, states. Another thing - even those hard core LPs are beginning to grow up (not very many as yet, though) and realize that all that Liberal Progressive crap they kept voting for has a big, big price tag.

Yep, it's time to 'wakey, wakey' as Crocodile Dundee said in his second movie. Californians, like that poor thug who awakened only to find himself hanging by his leg over...thin air, several stories up, are beginning to realize that all those schemes and dreams they loved to force upon taxpayers don't do any good in the long run and cost a heck of a lot to finance.

We are beginning to see the same problems surface across America. We have an asinine administration that keeps shouting 'full speed ahead' while the ship is sinking. They cut deals with unions and force those deals on the taxpayers, not to help the taxpayers, but to buy union support (read votes). We Americans simply get stuck with the bill when those same administration officials sneak away from the table before the check arrives. It's time to call a halt to this craziness. That means California and New York voters and, yes, Illinois voters, have to step up and 'fire' those nutcase politicians before our entire country sinks...like Titanic.

The biggest problem to overcome? Well, the absolute psychosis of LPs must be 'cured'. Think not? All you have to do is to listen to nutcase whack-jobs like jimmy carter. After his election humiliation and years of negative analysis of his one term in office, HE STILL DOESN'T GET IT! And, he never will. You see, it's never (his, obama's, their) fault...ever.

God Bless America!...God Save America! (even the LPs...)