Doesn't this prove, once and for all, that an endless stream of funding is never enough for the extreme, radical element withing the democrat party that has been driving the car known as California off a cliff?

Dependng upon how you define collapse it may already have happened.
1. Free Healthcare for anyone in California (Citizen of Ca or not)
2. Free Tuition for all
3. Democrat Super Majority
4. Democrat Governor
5. Sanctuary State
6. Sanctuary Cities
7. Not Enough Money to pay for it all
These items are either already in effect or soon will be. A lot of this is based on the Califrnia elector system. All primaries are open, top two vote getters run in the general election. The way the state districts are drawn in Ca, it is very difficult for ano other than a Democrat to get on the General Election Ballot. This generally results in a Socialist in actuality or one in Name only but still two socialist candidates.. (even if they don't admit to being one. e.g. Kamala Harris.
If anyone here in the Gulch is from California, please comment and if I'm wrong about his please let me know.

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People who ignore reality try to stretch the rubber band more and more to keep their programs going UNTIL all of a sudden the rubber band snaps and it all comes down. California has been doing this for a long time now. There is still a lot of wealth to steal to keep the liberals going, but its not the low hanging fruit type of wealth. They will need substantial asset taxes (maybe 5-10%) that begin at a few hundred thousand dollars of total personal wealth, and that will have to start soon.
Socialism can last a long time as it saps up essentially all the wealth in private hands, and the californians should get ready for this to happen.

Thats why I moved OUT.

I think that just like the disastrous dictatorships of South America that occasionally fall they are always replaced with another tyranny that may start less oppressive but always go in the same direction again until it becomes unstainable and then it starts over.

A once beautiful state. I was born and raised in Sacramento. Such a shame what has happened.

The impending disaster does not stop the newly minted governor of CA, Newsom, to contemplate running for president.

That is the most significant proof of their insanity. Is running the most populous state (~40 million) to the ground a required qualification to be the president of the country?

The article today in the WSJ:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/californ...

In case you can't read it for not being a subscriber, the title is:

"California Has Become the Far Left Coast".
By Charles R. Kesler, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and the editor of the Claremont Review of Books.

Excerpts:

"The Democrats’ crushing dominance allows them to use California as a progressive policy laboratory. As a result, the state has the highest welfare numbers (a third of all Americans on welfare live in California), the largest contingent of illegal immigrants, a burgeoning homeless population, onerous regulations on business and private property, mediocre public schools, high income taxes (the highest marginal rate is 13.3%) and sales taxes, a yawning gap between rich and poor, its own summer blend of expensive gasoline, bedraggled and crowded roads to punish people further for driving, and a widely mocked high-speed rail boondoggle."

"Take infrastructure. Rather than repair freeways or build new ones, Mr. Brown decided to construct the high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Vowing “hard decisions” and “tough calls,” however, his successor announced in February that “the project, as currently planned, would cost too much and take too long.” The train’s cost, at last estimate, was between $77 billion and $88 billion, four times the funds available. Incredibly, however, Mr. Newsom didn’t cancel the project. He merely postponed it indefinitely, except for the rump railroad between Merced and Bakersfield, for which not a single mile of track has been laid.
Or consider health care. A bill to create a single-payer system in California passed the Democrat-controlled state Senate in June 2017, only to stall in the Democrat-controlled Assembly when Speaker Anthony Rendon confessed that his party had no idea how to raise the $400 billion annually the system is estimated to cost. (The whole state budget amounts to $201.4 billion.) Last month Mr. Newsom endorsed “the long-term goal of single payer” but pointedly didn’t introduce a bill to achieve it. In the long run, liberals used to say, we are all dead. It will be interesting to see which arrives first: the train or the government doctors."

"The promises of California’s government programs are too good to be true, but also, apparently, too attractive to resist. Karl Marx called his kind of socialism “scientific,” as opposed to his predecessors’ “utopian” fantasies. California appears to be pioneering a third kind, which might be called “infantile.” Our Democrats strongly suspect their programs won’t work and know they can’t be paid for—but want them anyway. To analyze that perversity, Freud might be more helpful than Marx. At any rate, California’s experience offers cautionary lessons on the way to 2020."