A functional feedback loop leading to a runaway reaction and consequent meltdown. Can't come soon enough.

Let them go bankrupt. The funny thing is that the government was complaining that they spent something like 400 million on homeless and the number of homeless increased the nest year. DUH ! The more they become leftist, the worse it will get

Will never happen as it violates the rules of "Democracy" (aka mob rule): "I fix it, you vote for me, the other guy is forced to pay"

Nope, they just can't help it, must be all that climate change effecting them, but their Cap and Trade rip off was supposed to fix all that....

Strict interpretation of the role of government will adhere to "Not Yours To Give" (see https://fee.org/resources/not-your-to... among other sources; it's public domain).

But if the government is to be conscripted into acting as an agent for charitable contributions, based on imputed generosity (which I oppose; there's major evidence of abuse), then there is no excuse for not demanding conservation easements on all real estate that was damaged and for which the government helps out the owners or their insurers. That way, although each piece of ground in a flood or earthquake or fire zone can inspire one monetary rescue at great expense to the taxpayers, after the government has paid compensation the ground will forever after be immune from subsequent claims because nothing can be built on it that can later be damaged.

Of course the Rich Liberals with their costly beachfront houses and their San Andreas Fault mansions will pretend not to understand this reasoning. I think we at the Gulch are smarter than that.

Yea, but all the suffering and the poor sheeple just baaahhh along and pay it...sad...

I think california should spend, spend, spend, to speed up the process of bankruptcy. Give money to homeless, migrants, and others who dont work, forcing anyone who DOES work to leave the state while they can.

Yup, more money for....whatever...

Mini Social Security Act.......

Well, Costa Rica is supposedly the place of choice, cheap and nice. Even the Philippines is inexpensive, a lot of Intel people move to both. Not that I would, I don't feel like having the "state" one day take everything, Kalifornia is bad enough.

always easier to spend somebody else's money. Thinking Cali-Venezuela?

Back in '80 it must have been so much better. Too bad it regressed and followed you there.
I searched for years to find an oasis overseas without success. Gotta be a multimillionaire to have "rights" overseas; that's where America is heading, too.

Look beyond to the skimming. The deep state uses all these scams to skim money. Brown only wanted a paltry 25 billion that floated to 50, now Oldsem wants 100 billion (which they have 0 of) and it will float up to 200. Watch. Unless the people of Kalifornia revolt and take back their swamp and drain it, it will only get worse.

Seems that nothing CA does surprises me anymore

If this was not enough, they are back to the "brave transportation" idea again, this time for a pittance of $100 billion!

The pervious governor totally failed in his "dream" high speed rail that he doggedly pushed, getting billions from the government only to pull it before he left. The new governor Newsom has no intention of paying it back despite president Trump's request: Of course, they can't pay it back, it is swallowed up by his new "idea" of providing illegal immigrants full health care coverage.

Now they are escalating, ruin upon ruin, shooting for twice the cost the rail would have cost.

https://www.marinij.com/2019/07/13/ma...

I was last there in 1980 on a diesel sub, left for WA, Bangor, and never went back. Good riddence.

Glad I left on 12/31/89.

Exactly, all a bunch of noise, with no logic, no guarantees but give Kalifornia another 21 billion to steal from. Where will the money come from? Why are not the victims pressing Oldsome and the Utility to reimburse them fully NOW? This is Katrina all over again...They never learn.

"Up from the Ashes, a coalition of wildfire victims, praised the law. Patrick McCallum, the group's co-chairman who lost his home during a wildfire in 2017, said it puts more pressure on PG&E to settle the lawsuits against it "for adequate, full compensation."

I fail to see how it puts pressure on PG&E.

If anything, it takes pressure off of them.

It looks like another politically motivated fund that will have rate players on the hook, not the utilities companies.

Typical California solution by a typical lefty liberal governor.