I didn't know whether to leave this comment on this entry or the one you linked to, since it's primarily about things that you raised in your other entry, but anyways.
It sounds like California is still stuck in the hell that we in Ontario suffered through for 8 years, but managed to drag ourselves out of a few years ago. I'm going to link to Wikipedia not because it's the be-all and end-all of human knowledge, but because that particular article happens to accurately represent the situation as I understand it. :)
I was in high-school at the time, and I experienced many of the same types of "cost-cutting" measures: arts and music down the toilet, crises in health-care, highways getting built and then sold to private corporations (who, incidentally, now have the highest tolls of any highway in North America), and so on.
Glad we got out of that one, but the effects are still noticeable around here 6 years later. (Ed: I have no idea where "almost 10" came from, heh.)
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It sounds like California is still stuck in the hell that we in Ontario suffered through for 8 years, but managed to drag ourselves out of a few years ago. I'm going to link to Wikipedia not because it's the be-all and end-all of human knowledge, but because that particular article happens to accurately represent the situation as I understand it. :)
I was in high-school at the time, and I experienced many of the same types of "cost-cutting" measures: arts and music down the toilet, crises in health-care, highways getting built and then sold to private corporations (who, incidentally, now have the highest tolls of any highway in North America), and so on.
Glad we got out of that one, but the effects are still noticeable around here 6 years later. (Ed: I have no idea where "almost 10" came from, heh.)