PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - In just a few weeks time, California
hits the wall.

And Americans should take a good, long look at the fiscal
and social wreck of the Golden Land, because California is
at a place to which all of America is heading.

In May, when five fund-raising proposals were put on the
ballot, Gov. Schwarzenegger pleaded with the overtaxed
Californians not to make their state "the poster child
for dysfunction."

As The Economist writes, "On May 18th, they did exactly
that."

Arnold went to the White House for U.S. loan guarantees
for new state bonds. But with the president's approval
rating wilting because of a belief he is spending too
much, the Obama-ites slammed the door.

In Sacramento, a Republican blocking force is resisting
any new tax revenue. And with the state under a
constitutional mandate to balance its budget, yet facing
a $24 billion deficit this July, a chainsaw is about to
be taken to state government.

Some 38,000 of 168,000 state prisoners may be released.
As Barack Obama is pushing universal health insurance,
California will cut Medi-Cal for the poor. Education will
be slashed, resulting in a shortened school year, thousands
of laid-off teachers, school closings and an end to summer
programs in a system that has plummeted from the nation's
best to one of its worst, as measured by dropout rates
and academic achievement.

The 10 campuses of the University of California face cuts
that may result in 50,000 fewer students and 5,000 fewer
teachers.

What makes her fiscal crisis relevant to us all is not only
that California is our most populous state, with one in
eight Americans living there, but California has a gross
domestic product larger than Canada's.

Moreover, the demography of California today is the
demography of America tomorrow, just as the social and
fiscal policies of California in the last decade mirror
those of the U.S. government today.

One-third of all U.S. wage-earners today have been
amnestied from paying U.S. income taxes, as the top
1 percent haul fully 40 percent of that huge load. So,
too, in California, the well-to-do and the wealthy are
hammered, which is why many have quietly closed their
businesses, packed and gone back over the mountains
whence their fathers came.

Under George W. Bush and Obama, the U.S. government has
undertaken huge new responsibilities: No Child Left Behind,
Medicare prescription drug benefits, wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the takeovers of banks and auto companies,
bailouts without end and national health insurance.

California, too, spent lavishly in the fat years and issued
bonds when state revenues did not cover the costs, bringing
its once-sterling credit rating down to the nation's
lowest. So, too, U.S. Treasury bonds, T-bills and the
American dollar are now increasingly suspect.

Demographically, California is where America will be in
2040.

White folks, who are leaving California as they did in
the millions in the 1990s, are below half the population.
Hispanics, their numbers surging due to legal and illegal
immigration, are well over a third of the population. The
African-American share of California's population is also
falling, as the Asian share is rising, again from
immigration.

Los Angeles, which is what most large American cities will
look like, is the most diverse city on earth. Has diversity
been a strength?

In the prisons and jails, and among the scores of thousands
in street gangs and the underclass, a black-brown civil war
is underway.

In October 2006, the Financial Times reported the findings
of the famed author of "Bowling Alone" on what diversity
has wrought:

"A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of ethnic
diversity has been revealed in research by Harvard
University's Robert Putnam, one of the world's most
influential political scientists. His research shows that
the more diverse a community is, the less likely its
inhabitants are to trust anyone -- from their next-door
neighbor to the mayor."

"In the presence of diversity, we hunker down," said
Putnam. "We act like turtles. The effect of diversity
is worse than had been imagined. And it's not just that
we don't trust people who are not like us. In diverse
communities, we don't trust people who do look like us."

"Professor Putnam," said the Financial Times, "found trust
was lowest in Los Angeles, 'the most diverse human
habitation in human history.'"

Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan carried California nine
times. But the state is now a fiefdom of liberalism.
John McCain's share of the vote was smaller than Barry
Goldwater's. California today believes in Big Government,
open borders, diversity, multiculturalism and the politics
of compassion. But what liberalism has wrought in
California, its native-born are fleeing.

Still, where California is at, America is headed.

Californians who are running away from the communities
and towns in which they were raised have Arizona, Idaho,
Colorado, Utah and Nevada to head to. But when all of
America arrives at where California is at today, where
do the Americans run to?

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