The Tragedy Formerly Known as California

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“California voters run the budget process, thanks to the state’s initiative process. And judging by their current situation, California voters are big stupid idiot dummy heads, for whom the words “basic accounting” and “prioritizing” are even more alien than “coat and tie required.” If you want to fix what’s wrong with California, scrap the state’s constitution and start over.

And if you’ll allow me, a few modest proposals:

1. No provision for an initiative process.
2. No amendments to the new constitution without the approval of two-thirds of both houses of the legislature and three quarters of the county governments, ala the federal constitution.
3. A 25-year-long 5% budget surplus requirement, to inculcate some decent spending habits, and to provide for an emergency reserve in a state with lots of potential for natural disasters.
4. A taxpayer’s bill of rights, modeled on Colorado’s, minus the stupid loopholes we left in.
5. Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars will be required to send a case of Cask 23 Cabernet Sauvignon each year that it’s produced, to a certain Stephen Green of Monument, Colorado.
6. The new Constitution should be short enough to fit on a few sheets of notebook paper.
7. Limit state spending to 5-7% of state GDP. A hundred billion dollars ought to be enough spending for anyone sane.”
 — Stephen Green

Vodkapundit (AKA Stephen Green) tackles the impossible — a semi-serious alternative to "F*ck California". Having once spent a glorious 3-month-change-of-station in Mountain View, it saddens me to know how far down the shit-hole its citizens have flushed this once-great showcase of the American dream. Its political leadership comprises the likes of Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, and a former Austrian bodybuilder. The intelligencia are represented by the likes of Sean Penn, Barbra Streisand, and Susan Sarandon. And their fastest growing demographic are illegal aliens, while able-bodied tax payers are leaving in droves. It's a normal American's nightmare in danger of metasticizing to the uninfected parts of our great Union.


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