Greenhut: Why are people fleeing California?

By: Steve Greenhut

Not long ago, I penned a case for staying in California, arguing that there’s nothing wrong here that isn’t fixable. California, blessed by magnificent and varied geography, mild weather and an “anything’s possible” culture, suffers mainly from a political process controlled by union advocates hell-bent on protecting their power and privilege, no matter what that means for the state’s public finances and public services.

While still standing by this “we should stand our ground” point of view, I’ve found little to be hopeful about in the current political season, with polls showing Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax-increase plan (Prop. 30) holding a solid lead, an initiative that would chip away at union power (Prop. 32) failing, and President Barack Obama holding a 24-point lead in the presidential race. Polling results on all three above-mentioned matters are not surprising, but they do suggest how far we are from the paradigm shift needed to get California back on a better track.

The most troubling thing I’ve seen is the delusion embraced by the state’s dominant Democrats, who really believe that California is only one massive tax increase away from being fixed.  READ MORE »

My Take - There is only one thing about this that bothers me.  These are the idiots that created the mess they are fleeing.  So where are they going?  I can only hope they are either spread out thinly throughout the nation in order to diminished their impact based on sheer numbers; or they go to New York, Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington state or the fifty first state of the United States: Cuyahoga County, Ohio.  Then they will be embraced with those who are as insane as they.  

I do hope they choose Mass., New York, Oregon or the state of Washington.  What would be even better would be to have these crazies move from those states into California.  That way they can all go down the tubes together.  Then again perhaps I not framing this properly.  Perhaps I should try to see this in a positive light!

Let's try this!  If things go as they are,  they can then all share a green paradise with organic farming, no electicity, no cars, no roads, no dams, no power plants, no manufacturing, no vaccinations, no modern medicine, no chlorine in their drinking water, no meat eating, no planes, and no modern equipment.