Sounds to me like California's problems are everyone's problems, possibly as a result of a society that wants to endlessly enlarge its "economy", its marketing, its arms, and its other forms of materialism (not to mention its population) in a World that has ever diminishing resources. But I can believe that it's worse in California than in some other places. The problem with human beings is that their social policy is based on a fragmentary idea, a deluded concept, and is quite out of touch with the larger reality in which they must live.

Liberals or conservatives...they ALL want to see the economy expand during their term of office, not shrink, but where does that lead? Into a very deep hole, that's where. People don't want to deal with the truth, because it's painful and demands self-sacrifice on behalf of the greater good (which takes into account all life). People who tell the whole truth don't get elected.

Look at Santo Domingo today as compared to what it was 500 years ago...from a fertile, forested paradise to a wasted desert of poverty and desperation. That is the future that awaits the competitive society when the resources run out.

- LH