So California is about to be cast into the sea and the rest of us will be asked for a bailout

This is what I most hate about the way our government is run, we are too forgiving. It's this mentality that as long as you admit that you screwed up you will be given a life-jacket. All the American people want is to show some contrition whether it's GM, Alex Rodriguez or the state of California.
GM lobbies congress for years to stop new forms of renewable energy from hitting the market and the financial sector pushed hard to limit any regulation on the way their instruments worked.
Pete Rose denied betting on baseball for 20 years, constantly lying right to our faces, the day he started to come clean was the day we all allowed to love him again and would never ask him to face a penalty for his crime... It's gotten so bad that if OJ admitted to killing his wife, Hollywood would be promoting Naked Gun 444.4.
We are a country who believe redemption is underscored in our core values. What this does not do though is lay proper blame at the feet of the perpetrator and this is what eats at me. This is what you get when you have a country based on Christian values, we are too forgiving, feel that as long as somebody is 'genuinely sorry' their sins can be absolved.

Well Krugman writes today how the Californian voter in passing Proposition 13 thirty years ago basically set up a house of cards because taxes could not be raised to meet increased demands of state funds, so what you got is a state which wants to do everything, give its people everything, be a leader in initiatives that would shape our country but have no way to ever pay for it.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost and I get his sickening feeling that the rest of the country will be asked to pay the bill. I feel like we didn't get to enjoy the 80 degrees humidity-free weather, didn't get to watch tall blond chicks parade down our streets with big fake cans and weren't allowed to treat our careers and lives with the laissez-faire Lindsay Lohan approach, so right now I am not quite ready to give them anything just cause they admit that they screwed up.
MLIA


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