{"id":15466,"date":"2012-06-13T09:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15466"},"modified":"2012-06-13T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T14:14:14","slug":"qotd-california-is-becoming-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/qotd-california-is-becoming-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;California is becoming Detroit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The liberal model \u2014 borrowing huge sums, rigging interest and the currency to enable state profligacy, turning large swaths of the population into less productive unionized government workers or dependents on the dole who vote in thanks to political hacks \u2014 simply does not work. How could beautiful blue-state California lose almost a million refugees to arid Texas? I like Texas, but Dallas had far less of nature to work with than did San Francisco. (It takes a lot of human failure for thousands to give up verdant California to move to Utah or the Nevada desert.) What we are witnessing is nothing short of surreal: in the manner that Tijuana was a different universe from San Diego, so too the entire state of California is becoming a different world from its neighbors. Whether one examines its near dead-last schools, its oppressive income and sales taxes, its decaying roads and infrastructure, its absurd prison system, its dysfunctional state offices (try the DMV), or its priestly public employee caste, California is becoming Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson, <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/the-liberal-super-nova\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Liberal Super Nova&#8221;, <em>PJ Media<\/em><\/a>, 2012-06-11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The liberal model \u2014 borrowing huge sums, rigging interest and the currency to enable state profligacy, turning large swaths of the population into less productive unionized government workers or dependents on the dole who vote in thanks to political hacks \u2014 simply does not work. How could beautiful blue-state California lose almost a million refugees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,53,41,13],"tags":[35,118,386],"class_list":["post-15466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-california","tag-taxes","tag-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-41s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15467,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466\/revisions\/15467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}