While I agree with the spirit of what you say, California has 1/8 the US population, and until this year, was running on Jerry Brown’s fiscally conservative budget at a huge surplus. Nephew Gavin actually tried to fight back against the legislature wanting insane handouts as soon as the people started sneezing. This was all presented through a well designed budget challenge website:
Try your hand at this nonpartisan online budget simulation that lets you decide both how much to spend on schools, prisons, health care and other state programs, as well as how to pay for those programs.
www.budgetchallenge.org
Now, I don’t disagree with you that we have a ton of problems - we’re full of homeless illegal immigrants, we’re on fire half the time, and the rest of the time we’re out of power. But our climate is good and we attract idiots and poors; something I guess you have passing familiarity with. This year’s coronavirus handouts were so ridiculous that we gave 2 billion dollars to scammers:
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com
Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, we’ve been on continual, “do not go outside“ lockdown since March. We push ridiculous restrictions on businesses that are destroying them while big business swoops in:
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com
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However. Despite all the stupidity, corruption, and the fact that Newsom is stuck in the position of cheering for the progressive psychos while begging for handouts, being less adept at saying “no” than California Uber Alles President Brown: it’s still California, the businesses headquartered here could easily generate enough state revenue to pull us out of even this crisis, and there’s recent proof that this actually happens in California (coronavirus is an exception). We’re in deep water, but it’s actually not that hard to get out if we could just eject the psychos in the state legislature.
But yeah, basically we’re screwed