Welfare Kings

The recent cold weather has decimated California's citrus and avacado crop so Governator Arnold is asking for Federal emergency funds. The planets fiercest right-wing ideologues want their financial woes "socialized", the Orange County ( The Most Republican County in America!) free -marketeers want the tax payers to defray the pain of being slapped up side the head by the "invisible hand of the market."

We think of California as some liberal bastion but forget that places like Orange County and the Imperial Valley brought us hateful creatures like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. The agricultural central valleys, whose wealth derives from grand governmental water projects, are home to the most virulent anti-government, racist,closed minded rednecks you would ever hope to meet. They have made billions sucking on the public tit, exploiting Mexican laborers and refusing to contribute to investment in state infrastructure, especially schools "After all" they say, "we are ignorant bastards and look at how rich we got!".

There is virtually no limit to the hypocricy these people espouse and they are totally oblivious to it. Tour the grand mansions and palatial estates of Orange County and then ask yourself how in the world working class people anywhere could think these elites have their interests at heart? "What About Kansas?" on steroids. In their jewel encrusted mega-churches they piously pray for more subsides and lower taxes so they can send their beautiful children to USC and UCLA in new Porches. They pray for foreign wars and off-shore drilling to keep their Hummers humming.