Ken, it seems that "the bottom line" is always your biggest concern.
One of my favorite lines from any movie comes from Platoon: "Free your mind and your ass will follow."
If we all stood up and said, "This has gone far enough." I am 100% unequivocally certain that we're smart enough to work up a solution. We don't have a money problem. We have a willpower problem.
We both know that most of California's problems stem from the crushing effect illegal aliens have on their economy. Anything California does is going to have to be filtered though the lens of hundreds of thousands of undocumented aliens.
But does that mean the rest of the country should stagnate? That people should be denied treatment just because some middle manager needs to bring profits up 4 percent this quarter?
We are smart enough to fix this. The radical fringe yelling, "No! No change. Nothing at all. No. No. No. No." receives too much attention. We should dismiss them as dead weight and fix this problem without them. They're partof the problem, anyway.
Deflation: When I was a kid, an E-ticket meant I was about to go on the ride of my life. Today, an E-ticket means a miserable ride.