From One Broken State to Another Really Broken Mega-State

August 13, 2010

Kevin Drum says my next home is in a state that is hopelessly bungled and broken, which is about how it seemed when I left in 2003. Georgia is screwed up in all sorts of ways, but California is systemically, inexorably, and constitutionally screwed up. I mean, the government of Georgia consistently exercises terrible judgment, but California’s government is actually programmed to do so automatically. And it does so on a truly frightening scale. California’s budget deficit of $19.1 billion is larger than the entire budget of the state of Georgia.

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  1. Lee on August 15th, 2010 5:51 pm

    when are you moving back to california?

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