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Crazyfornia

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A review of a frightening book:

California isn’t just a basket case, it’s a proselytizing basket case, with its environmental zealots, community organizers, and wishful economic thinkers aggressively selling their ideas to other states and to the federal government. As Laer demonstrates, while the recession is slowing the other forty-nine states from buying into California’s governing philosophy, the Obama government is an enthusiastic supporter. Another four years of Obama, and California won’t be the only bankrupt crazy place in America.

…Crazifornia describes a dysfunctional state, one that can best be summed up as a banana republic governed, not by oligarchs, but by a toxic mix of environmental fascists, greedy unions, corrupt or ideology-driven legislators, and all-powerful bureaucrats. But before you get too angry at these jackals, perhaps you should reserve your wrath for the ones who truly deserve it: the California voters.

I fear the state is lost. I just hope we can contain the infection.

8 thoughts on “Crazyfornia”

  1. “Crazifornia” is probably the best title that could be given to a book about Obama/California’s idea of how to run a government. It’s gotta be a good read. Here is another one for everyone to read cause it’s average Americans taking a stand against this crazy form of tyranny. ( http://www.booksbyoliver.com ). It’s about each of us doing something so I recommend it.

    I think it was reported in the census that over 3 million people from California have moved out of the state since the previous census in 2000.

    1. According to the US census:

      “Between 2000 and 2009, there was a natural increase of 3,090,016 (5,058,440 births minus 2,179,958 deaths). During this time period, international migration produced a net increase of 1,816,633 people while domestic migration produced a net decrease of 1,509,708, resulting in a net in-migration of 306,925 people.”

  2. Perhaps it is time to stop worrying about CA itself (it is a lost cause, sorry Rand), and start worrying about containing the infection. Californication (where former CA residents move to new states, and start trying to implement their insanity in them) is a serious problem in Colorado for instance, and they are hardly alone. Perhaps denying fromer CA residents the right to vote in their new homes for say, 10 years or so (a ‘cooling off’ period?) might be an effective solution?

    Failing that, just wall the place off and let them go to hell in their own way.

    1. Maybe make the ability to pass a basic business and economics test a prerequisite to vote? Like:

      “If the State empowers a private entity to monopolize the supply of labor for a given profession, will that private entity:
      (a) Provide excellent service out of gratitude.
      (b) Raise prices to extract monopoly profits.
      (c) Lower quality of service because you can’t fire them.
      (d) Both (b) and (c).”

  3. The only good news is that Sacramento can’t legislate away the weather or the scenery. You’ll always have pleasant weather in California, and the mountains, no matter what they do. Eventually the current system will implode, that’s a given, but California will always be there.

  4. From the perspective of a software engineer who’s worked for a couple startups in Silicon Valley I find the duality of California fascinating.

    The valley is still the place to be if you’re doing a software startup. People move there from all over the US and even the world for the startup culture and easy access to VCs and Angels.

    At the same time state unemployment is above the national average and the budget is a mess…

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