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Don't tar and feather me for this, but I lived in California many years ago. I've mentioned before that I worked for the California Army National Guard. The National Guard is a strange beast, subject to both federal and state control. I was a federal civil servant and my pay check came from the US Treasury. However, there were occasions when we were called to state active duty and those periods were paid by the state with a document called a warrant. I read in the news that the IOU's now being issued are also called warrants, but they must have some other strings attached, because the old state warrants were accepted as checks.

I don't know how many different ways there are to say it, but to keep it simple the only solution to that ancient Chinese disease called "Lo Wan Doe" is to either increase income or reduce expenditures. It works the same way with governments as it does individuals. How many times have you as individuals had to make a choice between this and that, because you didn't have enough "Doe" for both?? When I was younger (and maybe again now that I'm retired), I can't count the number of times I hadda sell a gun to getta gun.

The entire population of California isn't to be condemned, but a goodly part of them are to be compared to children, spoiled and surrounded by expensive toys and other forms of indulgence, and their parents now want to come along and take something away. It's just very difficult to give and give and give, then have to take away. For decades, the Democratic Party has wooed voters with gifts, plain and simple. It's their way of buying votes. They promise and give government money and services away to make people happy who will vote them back into office again and again. Now the Democrats cannot be seen as taking the bad medicine or they won't retain their voter base. A lot of what is seen as Liberal do-gooderism is not that so much as vote-buying.