PRUDEN: A great oak with nowhere to grow

The Governator is dealing with a socialist establishment in his state that want to stick its head in the sand and ignore fiscal and economic realities. It's similar to the UAW approach to the auto industry --- they'd all rather keep their benefits and goodies and sink the whole ship than make the necessary concessions to keep things on track. California has gotten so intoxicated with its own propaganda that it's the largest state and that it's a trendsetter that it's forgotten that the world can and will work around that state. More regulations, more taxes, more unfunded mandates just because the Dems think they're good ideas? --- unfortunately investors have and will take their money elsewhere, and businesses will move elsewhere. Honestly, if California can't get its act together, and goes on the federal dole, then it has forfeited its right to statehood. Until it pays it all back, it should revert to the status of "Territory of California" with a governor appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress, its entire budget placed in a receivership, and its right to have voting Congressmen and electoral votes suspended.. Once it's shown fiscal responsibility, the Golden State should then be readmitted to the Union.

I think that California should be kicked out of the Union.... and offered to Mexico with some cash to sweeten the pot.....If we are successful in getting the Mexicans to bite, it won't take a year before the Mexicans will be demanding that we accept 'them' into our union and then completely isolate California by putting a very high fence around that garbage dump, with only a very few openings large enough for people to actually walk through. Any attempts to avoid the process of walking by using aircraft or ships should be met with serious prevention efforts.

If California is "beyond governing", then, by the axiom of transitivity, the United States is also. Schwarzenegger's failures here (I'm a Californian) are not of his making -- they are the making of an electorate majority who, even in this edgy economy, insists on passing new bond measures to further indebt the state, coupled with self-same majority's desire to sip at the government trough. As California goes, so goes the nation; Obama's election proves that.

The absolute worst thing we can do is bailout socialist California. Congress should ignore the begging and let them suffer. They have built an economic environment that only the hopelessly insane would want to start up a business in. There is very slim hope that one day the Californians may wake up, smell the coffee, and realize they have ruined themselves. Socialism is always thus. It always looks great on paper, it reads like a workers dream, but in reality it is a hoary leech that (edit: sux) the life blood out of an economy and demoralizes the population.