GfS, can you link to articles or news stories that verify what you said in your post above? I'd also like to hear some Californians comment on what you have written.

My wife and I know a number of people who live in California (Long Beach, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Santa Cruz, Berkeley, several other places) with whom I correspond by e-mail and talk with on the phone. We talk about a number of things, including the Prop. 8 matter and the health care situation and illegal aliens, and although they tell me that there indeed are a lot of them there (doing jobs that nobody else wants to do), they've said nothing about what you seem to be claiming.

Verification, please? Then I'll ask some of my California friends and see what they say.

By the way, I used to live in California.

Don Firth