Why You Should Forget the Tie and Bring a Protest Sign!
"A Finely Tuned Job Killing Machine."
"California is not suffering from a recession as much as it is suffering from self-inflicted blows to our own economy by our own State government."
Both of these quotes pose a true and accurate depiction of our current State of affairs. The observations, however, derive from a 1992 report of the Ueberroth Commission on California Competitiveness. Things are of course even worse today!
We suffer this day as a result of energy and water shortages, the dilapidation of public infrastructure, astronomical public debt, high taxes, and a punitive regulatory climate. These seventeen years later, I can only echo Ueberroth as he singled out our State Government as primarily responsible for our sorry state of affairs. Just how did we go from having one of the best economies in the world to the brink of bankruptcy?