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January 15, 2017
Can Peter Thiel Save California?
Hollywood is a ghost of itself and, frankly, everybody in the Bay Area to down here in Lalalandis living out the umpteenth lifestyle rerun of old Doors and Jefferson Airplane albums fifty, or is it sixty, years later. Hell, we’ve got the same governor we always did for what seems like a hundred years (actually a record 13 years in two sessions) -- His Grooviness Zen Jerry who was supposed to be this great original, this innovator. But can anyone tell me what he has innovated, other than an unbuilt bullet train the Japanese had in 1962 (true -- look it up) and nobody wants anymore? So what if grass is legal. Was it ever really illegal? | Roger L. Simon
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And we giveth a fuck, why exactly?
Posted by: Bill Jones at January 15, 2017 4:53 PM
Jerry's innovations were to allow the state workers to unionize, which in turn allowed the Democrats to use taxpayers money to buy their votes with gold plated pay and especially benefits. That one act brought the state to a constant fiscal crisis, and caused the legislature to answer to the unions, not the people.
His second big innovation is to try to copy his dad and create a huge public project, the bullet train, that in reality is nothing more than another way to pay off his union buddies, who in turn understand that large donations to Democrats are required. The train will in reality never be finished, but rather serve as a make work project for decades. If it ever gets done, it will be immediately a huge cost to the taxpayers, to subsidize and maintain. At least Pat Brown created things that provided a clear public good to the people.
Jerry Brown is and always has been a curse from hell on the Golden State.
Posted by: CW at January 15, 2017 6:42 PM