State policymakers are beginning to understand — or at least face the realities of — a fundamental reason for California’s job loss and now a 3-year $81 billion budget deficit.  Basically we pass laws and move on to new ones and call it success.  Texas on the other hand — a state that congregates its legislature in only odd years and requires a 2/3rds majority on every bill — created 70% of the new jobs in the United States in 2008 and has a $2 billion budget surplus this year. 

I offer the following 3-week timeline of completely independent events and tidbits — a syllogism if you will — as a picture of evolving realizations of California’s problem, as well as some minimal-cost concepts that are gaining traction. 

October 22

October 30

November 1

November 4 (blog date)

November 12

November 16

November 17 (Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee)

November 18