Stupid Is As Stupid Does (California Dreamin')

[XemaSab]

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Democrats like California, too. No wonder. The Democrats in California rule the roost. The party controls almost all the levers of power and will do so for the foreseeable future. Beginning with Governor Jerry Brown, all 10 statewide elective offices are held by Democrats. That includes both U.S. Senate seats, and nearly two-thirds majorities in both houses of the state legislature.

California is also John Muir's state, the hermetic geezer on the face of the California quarter. John Muir said,

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

The Democrats in John Muir's own state are closing parks, those "places to play and pray in...." At the last count over 70 were being shuttered. Jerry Brown once said that "America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny." Is closing parks part of that destiny?

http://blog.aba.org/2012/03/eubanks-california-state-parks.html

[Starboard Tack]

1. We have a lot of parks in California

We also have a lot of prisons, which are driving the state further and further into debt. It would serve us better to close at least half the prisons and keep the parks.
That said, Jerry is doing his best.

[pscot]

2. Oh noes! Can't close teh prisons

We need 'em to hold all the dope smokers and rowdy black people.