As a California resident, I am pessimistic. What we need is consolidation and streamlining of expenses, programs and maintenance. This, however, will serve to

As a California resident, I am pessimistic. What we need is consolidation and streamlining of expenses, programs and maintenance. This, however, will serve to enable and cover over the poor policies and inefficiencies that are either causing, or at least failing to solve, the many issues we have in California. I am very sympathetic to the idea, oft raised by critics of capitalism, that economies cannot grow forever. Why, too, would we not have the same critique of government and its services ?