According to this national poll, California is the most disliked state by people living in other states. Republicans in particular don't like us out here on the Left Coast. It's easy to be dismissive. I'm visiting in Wisconsin now, where I just drove by people who were sitting on the iced-over city lake and fishing, and they are having a warm spell now. Weather aside, the rest of the country understands how out-of-touch with reality California policy makers are and, as many suspect, it won't be long before they are asked to bail us out.
Eileen Norcross has an important piece below
on the latest insanity from the state's Democrats, who want to create a
CalPERS-like pension program for the state's private workers, albeit at
a much lower benefit level than that received by the state's elite
class of government workers. Chris Reed has a great rebuttal
to this idea. I had actually proposed a similar idea in complete jest. I
had argued that the best way to get pension reform here would be to
give every Californian a government-backed "3 percent at 50" retirement
package. In about two hours, the system would crumble and we would all
really be in it together. Only in California can an idea proposed in
self-obvious and complete mockery be offered (granted, in scaled-down
form) in seriousness. I know why the rest of the country doesn't like
us. I'm becoming a self-hating California, I suppose.
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