Grapes of Wrath in Reverse

Wildfires Aren't the Only Threat to the So-Called 'California Dream':

It's too expensive to live here.

This is a great piece, at NYT, ' Quakes and Fires?

It’s the Cost of Living That Californians Can’t Stomac...

Taxes are out of control, property values are out whack with much of the country and the governors are wasting their time if they try to fight and entrenched state legislature. It is easier for governors them to join bandwagon then serve as leaders. The hispanic, I will not capitalize that word, citizens push for open borders with the support of a generally liberal population. Business is leaving and taxes are increasing, it's like the swirl in the bottom of a toilet flush.

Tom Joad would be on the way home to Oklahoma.