Sunday, December 1, 2013

Dan Walters, a California treasure

My favorite pundit in California, Dan Waters has a must read on Jerry Brown's delusional model of California's future:

Dan Walters: Gov. Brown’s vision of California lacks reality and detail
Humorist Garrison Keillor closes his radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion,” with these words: “Well, that’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” The “Lake Wobegon Effect” has come to mean any inflated – and unrealistic – viewpoint. And it could be applied to a document that’s recently emerged from Gov. Jerry Brown’s Office of Planning and Research about how the state will – or at least should – evolve in the next several decades.

This is a must read. I call it the Doonesbury cartoon version of liberal paradise, a plastic, unrealistic, and fictional view of benevolent, sensitive central planners,

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