Viva Californication!

A $41 billion state budget deficit -- way to go AFSCME! Way to go SEIU! Way to go CTA! You showed that mean ol' Republican governor who's boss, didn't ya? So now your state is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, and they're planning to cut 20,000 state jobs.

If there were any justice in the world, the idiot bosses who run the government-employee unions would be fleeing to Nevada and seeking police escorts to help them make it to the state line ahead of the vengeful mobs of angry taxpayers. Somebody should make reference to Fred Siegel's The Future Once Happened Here -- liberal Democrats and labor unions have done to California what they did to New York City in the 1960s and '70s.

UPDATE: Linked by Ed Driscoll, who has lots more on the rapidly imploding state of California.