You've heard people call our highest court "the Supremes?" After reading a USA Today article ranking how well run are the 50 states, maybe the DrsC should call their residences "the Extremes."
Our home is in Wyoming, ranked Number Two in this study. Only North Dakota is ranked higher. As the article notes, WY has no state income tax, a very positive business climate, and low unemployment. With very low population density, personal freedom is abundant.
Our winter residence is in California, a state ranked Number Fifty - dead last - in the study. Poor mismanaged CA has high unemployment, poor schools, on-going budget deficits, a lowish credit rating, and one-party government. Meanwhile the San Diego Union-Tribune reports that CA, with 12% of U.S. population, is home to 34% of all U.S. welfare recipients.
If that isn't enough, CA is under Federal Court mandate to reduce its overcrowded prison population, putting dangerous criminals back on the street. This outcome is the result of CA's inability to afford enough prisons to hold all its convicted felons.
