"Death to a Dream"

Based on the article written by Joel Kotkin it isn't very likely that California will make a comeback, and if there is eventually a comeback it won't be anytime soon. The University of California, Santa Barbera forecasted that California will actually lag behind until 2011. California has made a comeback before actually in recent history, but there are just too many things wrong right now. Unemployment is up at 10% and is still expected to rise. Kotkin believes that the people in the legislature of California is still just taking us backwards. He doesn't believe the people of California made a good choice in electing a movie star in running the state, and the California has just turned into a laughingstock.



The writer believes that the only way California can turn things around is for it to make jobs for themselves. He thinks that people like the Cardenas family need to try and make a business for themselves and take things from there. He also believes that the people fighting to make things greener aren't helping, but just hurting.



I don't agree with his reasoning. The way the housing plummeted isn't the government's fault. I mean things could have been planned for, but it wasn't the government's fault. I don't know that much about the government and their decisions, but if the government is making bad decisions it's still the people's fault. They are the ones who chose who was going to run the government, therefore it was their fault.