One of the themes of our Foundation is that what is going on in Washington – huge deficit spending, government policies that frighten and discourage entrepreneurs – violates far more than conservative principles and goals. These actions violate what used to be consensus thinking across the political spectrum, and they undermine what everyone wants to achieve.
California is the poster child for what we are saying. What philosophical agenda has been advanced in California? For that matter, what interest has really been advanced? In the short term, perhaps, the public employee unions get more money and power. But the gravy train has to hit a wall sometime, and when it does, the government workers and retirees will suffer like everyone else. And what about the schools whose funding will be cut? The vulnerable people who will be less safe as law enforcement budgets go down? The loss of opportunity for California’s young people? What part of the political spectrum – from the left to the right – benefits from bankrupting the government and destroying the economy?
And what will happen to our country if the current leadership in Washington makes the whole country look like California?
Tags: California, debt, jobs
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