As far as I know, California could make a comeback, however, it won't be a quick one. Although, to me that's just common sense. I mean, we just now had a budget approved, JUST NOW! Doesn't that tell you something? And in a lot of means, I really agree with Joel Kotkin. I think that what he is saying about the politics and what not are true. I had heard a few tings about it on the news.
One if his quotes were, "It's often a case of I'm all right Jack-and the hell with everyone else." And I believe that. I think that, until the politics of this state step up, we aren't going anywhere anytime soon. He had mentioned in his article that, San Francisco had been rebuilt from the ashes of a great 1960's fire, and that California had a lot of self-regard.
Also, what he said about people living the high life, the good life, even for the middle class people, that they somehow missed the sense of threats from rising taxes and whatnot. It had resulted in an "unreasonable reform, with new and inflexible limits on property and income taxes that made holding the budget together far more difficult." And that rings true to me as well. I think he is right to say that because really, how else did one think a lot of this started? There was another mention about some of the things that happened, about the racial "tide" as he had called it. He had said that it was not totally based on prejudice, however a lot of the newcomers provoked fear that there wasn't a limit on how many people could move into the state.
So basically, he has named almost every type of person, and while it may be the politico's job to help us out of it, and they could maybe have helped it a bit, it seems to be everyone. And I believe that as well. I think its true and I agree with him 100%
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