{"id":9038,"date":"2013-01-25T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/25\/why-we-need-california\/"},"modified":"2013-01-25T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:32:12","slug":"why-we-need-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/25\/why-we-need-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need California"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Stossel<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks, California! Thanks for your monstrous spending and absurd regulatory overreach! America needs you. We need Connecticut and Illinois, too! We need you the way we needed the Soviet Union, as models of failure, to warn us what happens if we believe those who say, "Government can."<\/span><\/p>\n

Moving to California was once the dream for many Americans. Its population grew at almost triple the national average — until 1990. Then big government, in the form of endless regulation and taxes, killed much of the dream. In the last decade, 2 million people left California.<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute summed up California's situation for me. "The politicians want to get re-elected, and the state government workers want to get as much as they can before the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. California is Greece — the Greece of America."<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope all Americans watch and learn from states like California. But if we don't, and if people keep electing big-government politicians, at least Americans, unlike the Greeks, can hop around between 50 states, trying to stay one step ahead of bad laws and ruin. <\/span><\/p>\n

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