Hanson: Poor Old California

Victor Davis Hanson, who lives in California's great central valley and views his state with a jaundiced eye, writes about it for Pajamas Media. He has an historian's grasp of what was, what is, and how we got from there to here.

I've lived through the times he talks about and Hanson has it right - almost twice the people but very little more infrastructure. What was adequate forty years ago, is adequate no longer.

BTW, a cold-eyed realist would dam every major canyon coming down out of the Sierra, catch the run-off for the dry years, and generate cheap, clean power with the falling water. Cold-eyed realists aren't popular in today's California, hence the problems Hanson catalogues.