When I voted for Barack Obama for President. I certainly never expected him to wind up as the de facto Governor of California.
Now it looks like the only way out of this money mess is to just give up and toss it all onto the good faith and credit of the federal government. If effect, President Obama will soon be wearing at least one more hat as the CEO of the now rather tarnished Golden State. Not fun, but a better bet than his General Motors hat any day.
Fine with me. This may be just what California needs, a political Supreme Being who can order up salvation with the stroke of a pen, a Hercules who can clean out the stables in Sacramento by simply letting the American River overflow the capitol, a smart guy who can add and subtract and, by the way, inspire.
But, can anyone really save us from ourselves?
This is both the first and the final question of the moment. It’s all about being bankrupt both of cash and ideas that might really work. The bottom line is our own inability to seize the system by the throat and shake loose all the stupid, contradictory initiatives that were supposed to free us from robber barons a hundred years ago, but instead have enslaved us to perpetual wanderings in the political wilderness.
If the President can be Governor because he writes the checks, then the citizens and the taxpayers should be the ones to make the decisions about how that money is spent. Let’s just cut Sacramento out of the loop and go right to the source, the U.S. Treasury. It almost makes you want to rub your hands together just thinking of it.