Friday, February 06, 2009

How Did This Happen?

California is on the brink of disaster.

More than 200,000 state government employees are expected to stay home without pay this Friday as California begins its first-ever furlough, expected to be two working days a month to stay home, without pay.

California's unemployment rate is 9.3 percent, a 15-year high.

The state is $42 billion in debt, and the chances of paying it off are about zero.

Take a look at California. It has a huge agriculture industry. It has vast amounts of lumber. It has oil. It has a huge tourist industry. It has Hollywood. It has incredible vacation destinations... Yosemite, Death valley, Disneyland, San Francisco, a long coastline peppered with fantastic beaches. It has some of our largest and most profitable shipping ports, and a massive airline industry,

It has Silicon valley, once the greatest hi-tech place in the world.
It has some of our once finest Universities and colleges.

California has more and better resources than most Nations on earth. It has - or had - some of the brightest and dedicated workers anywhere. California's ability to generate prosperity is almost unmatched anywhere on earth.

So what happened to California?

If you can figure that out - what happened and who did it - you'll understand what's happening to America everywhere.

Here's a clue... Pelosi is a Californian.

1 comment:

TheWayfarer said...

I get it...Papist leftism!
As opposed to right-wing Papism which we just came out of 8 years of.
PoliTRICKsters and corruptocrats don't care about the well-being and maintenance of the nations they rape, their only concern is re-election, and the hope the loot lasts the length of their natural span.
Californication spent a bit too *ahem* "liberal"-ly for that!