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California has always been a laboratory for every goofy left-wing idea to pop into the tiny heads of its “progressive” utopian dreamers. Those dreams are costly. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Golden State’s unemployment rate now stands at 12.2%, surpassing the national average of 9.7%.
With fewer of its people able to pay the state’s taxes – the highest in the nation – California’s shortfall in tax receipts recently caused a budget crisis that pitted its big-spending Democrat-dominated legislature against its Hollywood action-hero turned girly-man Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. When the phony battle ended, the state’s rulers still spent an outrageous $84.6 billion. Gov. Arnold heralded the budget as California “living within its means.” Next year, the state expects to post a $7 to $8 billions deficit.
California, therefore, is a perfect laboratory to showcase the job and wealth destroying efficiency of unsustainable government spending. Looking at progressive California, it's not hard to imagine how the nation will fair under Obama’s unsustainable debt. Californians - and Americans at large - need to decide if they are lab mice or men.
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