re: #312 jaunte

Jeez! ANOTHER “California is collapsing” meme?
Again???

I wonder if it true that CA’s economy is bigger than France’s, because, like France, the Golden State is usually held up by wingers as a dire example of a “failed economy” - usually as a result of “socialism”, i.e. the horrific burden of taxes and regulations that drive away any vestige of entrepreneurialism, and leave the place a hellhole of social problems and economic stagnation.
Which is a great deal of bullshit, of course: because
1. France is still here, and far from “collapse”.
2. California likewise.

Not to say that CA doesn’t have a lot of social/financial/economic problems (in my estimation, due to the fact that it has 40 million people living in a state whose infrastructure planning only expected 32 million or so by 2020), but it’s not quite a Somalia just yet….