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The truth is that what is happening in California, in Detroit, in Camden and in hundreds of other communities is also going to happen where you live.

To environmental dreamers, state-level economic suicide will serve as a trial run for national suicide. Self-inflicted misery in the name of the advancement of “clean energy” is a small price to pay for the warm and fuzzy feeling that consumers will get as the Kool-Aid goes down, the lights go out, and prosperity decays in the name of something wonderful, something green.

When Dwayne Whitney started his trucking business decades ago he had only one truck. Today he has eighteen and 20 employees. But that’s about to change. In a few years, new air quality regulations approved by the California Air Resources Board will render Whitney’s entire fleet illegal.

The mythology of an economic recovery in the United States faces no lack of challenge, from the facts. However, that the country’s largest state (and economy) remains in a fiscal emergency, indebted to Washington for billions in unemployment costs, with no jobs growth, should be a cautionary tale to those who insist a national recovery is underway, or is sustainable.

Decades of demonizing “greedy” profit-making enterprises has paid off for California in a lower standard of living, crowded prisons, decaying schools, potholed streets, and an approaching welfare majority.

Together with an unsustainable $500 billion public pension overhang and $28 billion current budgetary shortfall, the effort to cap all energy production dooms the state to bankruptcy.

The mid-term elections were a rejection of President Obama’s big-government agenda, but those results don’t necessarily mean better policy. We should not forget, after all, that Democrats rammed through Obamacare even after losing the special election to replace Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts.

It stopped sending monthly pension checks to its 150 retired workers, breaking a state law requiring it to pay its promised retirement benefits in full.

Rep. Tom McClintock discusses whether the Golden State should get a government bailout. He says hell no. You have to tell the public employees to go pound sand.

Schwarzenegger’s soon-to-be-ended seven-year reign as California’s governor can be best described in just that one simple world: failure.