California projecting a budget surplus? What're you smokin', man?
California Beaming
By TIMOTHY EGAN, NYT
SAN SIMEON, Calif. — To take in the gardens of Italian cypress and perfumed citrus, to sit at poolside under a Roman temple front, to stare at the infinity of the Pacific from 1,600 feet above the water is to realize that Hearst Castle was much more than the Xanadu that entombed a tragic giant in “Citizen Kane.”
Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill were among the guests to dine in the 60,645-square-foot main house of the press magnate William Randolph Hearst, though Churchill must have chafed at the two-drink limit.
What you feel in this gilded aerie, now part of the state park system, is another California — crazy, wildly hubristic, a place without limits. The audacity of latching fantasy onto earthquake-shaky bedrock has always been in the state’s DNA.
And right on cue, just as the chorus of California-hating naysayers have signed off on yet another obituary — It’s Greece! A liberal nightmare! Everyone’s leaving! — the Golden State is dreaming once again.
Following a tax hike backed by voters last year, California is projecting a budget surplus in the near future, and big pockets of the state are national leaders in job creation and population growth.
(More here.)
By TIMOTHY EGAN, NYT
SAN SIMEON, Calif. — To take in the gardens of Italian cypress and perfumed citrus, to sit at poolside under a Roman temple front, to stare at the infinity of the Pacific from 1,600 feet above the water is to realize that Hearst Castle was much more than the Xanadu that entombed a tragic giant in “Citizen Kane.”
Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill were among the guests to dine in the 60,645-square-foot main house of the press magnate William Randolph Hearst, though Churchill must have chafed at the two-drink limit.
What you feel in this gilded aerie, now part of the state park system, is another California — crazy, wildly hubristic, a place without limits. The audacity of latching fantasy onto earthquake-shaky bedrock has always been in the state’s DNA.
And right on cue, just as the chorus of California-hating naysayers have signed off on yet another obituary — It’s Greece! A liberal nightmare! Everyone’s leaving! — the Golden State is dreaming once again.
Following a tax hike backed by voters last year, California is projecting a budget surplus in the near future, and big pockets of the state are national leaders in job creation and population growth.
(More here.)
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"California is projecting a budget surplus in the near future".
'near future' is fairly loosely term. I'll believe it when I see it (a surplus in California).
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