As of this writing there’s no budget in California (doesn’t this sound familiar). That doesn’t mean that when I wake up in the morning that there won’t be a budget but it appears that the Democrats still need one more vote to pass the bad budget.
Jerry Pournelle, the science fiction author, had some cogent thoughts about California’s situation:
It’s not so much that the voters vote themselves largess from the public treasury, although that certainly happens; it is that those with a particular interest, such as civil servant including teachers and prison guards unions will always organize effectively while those who are affected less directly won’t, and the result will go in one direction.
I’ll repeat another learned mind: Whatever you have, spend less. It’s a lesson that California’s elected leaders need to learn.