GOP Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California is a Mess
March 17, 2010 at 8:33 PM 1 comment
So goes California, so goes the nation?
A new day, a new sign that California is sinking into a metaphorical, if not literal, ocean. True/Slant colleague David Knowles points to a new UCLA study that shows 1 in 4 Californians are uninsured. The day before, Michael Roston took a look at the state’s spectacularly bad unemployment numbers and saw nothing short of a Dust Bowl migration in reverse. The number of people unemployed is now equivalent to the total populations of Nevada, New Hampshire and Vermont combined.
Let’s not forget that nearly 22,000 of the state’s teachers were handed pink slips yesterday.
I lived in Orange County, California when I was in junior high middle school. My family moved to the dark state of Michigan just before I entered high school but while we were in CA, my mother raved about how my brothers and I could go to a university there, essentially, for free. The whole place seemed to be filled with light and possibility.
Not anymore.
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ChrisH | March 18, 2010 at 12:32 AM
Good thing they recalled the Dem governor and got a Republican in there. remember this in 2010 and 2012….Republicans=ruin
Ooh, “you can’t spell Republicans without r.u.i.n.”
You heard it here first.