[Jim727]

Some of this is good, though the rhetoric is arrogant and dismissive, and much of the content (deliberately) misleading. A few notes:

1) L.A. does not have a transit system. It has a freeway system. Big difference.
2) The water projects are phenomenally wasteful (typical of gov't) and paid for by everyone but the consumers of the water.
3) Howard Jarvis's property tax revolt is completely misrepresented. The revolt was based on the simple fact that retirees on fixed incomes were having their homes stolen by tax authorities because they couldn't pay the inflated tax bills. It's the best example in America of the citizens rising up against government and saying ENOUGH!. Needless to say, tax consumers hate Prop. 13.
4) "undocumented newcomers" and "anti-immigrant narcissism" my ass! They are illegal migrants, not immigrants, and objecting to having my home invaded does not constitute narcissism. Prop. 187 had nothing to do with looking "different" - it had to do with stopping balkanization of society, the huge drain on public resources, and the apparent disinclination of the illegal migrant population to participate in assimilation. The author is presenting pure, racist BS.
5) The author's representation of the environmental movement, at least in my area, couldn't be further off the mark if it was deliberate - which it might be.

The author is a whack job.