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"The bad news is that there are a lot of Comptons, Stocktons, AND San Bernardinos out there. Los Angeles may prove to be one of them. The good news is that things have gone so sour that some California politicians have discovered that it hurts less to act than it does not to act. That is true at the municipal level but not yet true at the state level, which makes for some interesting mayors-vs.-legislators politics.
“The enemy isn’t Democrats or Republicans,” says San Jose city councilman Sam Liccardo. “The enemy is ALGEBRA.” Liccardo, a DEMOCRAT, is bracingly honest when it comes to his fellow partisans in Sacramento: “The fact is the unions own the Democratic party,” he says, AND San Jose’s pension-and-personnel reforms have not made the city’s Democratic elected officials any friends in Sacramento. “Party orthodoxy is much more strictly enforced at the state level, because the unions decide who wins AND who loses,” Liccardo says. San Jose mayor Chuck Reed, also a DEMOCRAT, has been out front on the pension issue, AND he’s maybe had a little easier time with it than have the authorities in Compton or San Bernardino. His city is the capital of Silicon Valley, AND his base of affluent Northern California professionals are not sending love letters to Paul Ryan, but they know how money works. “They may be liberal,” he says, “but at some point you have to decide: Are we going to provide services or not?”.....................
Keep an eye on California, I believe the fate of that state is an example of what will happen if we get four more years of Obama and a dead locked Congress.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
