Al Fonzi, as usual, is right on target regarding the decline of the living standard in California due to the result of state policy and overregulation (“Economy of servants,” Sept. 13).
California’s elitist government has made it the most government regulated state in the nation, and is rapidly preparing for its demise.
We pay exorbitant prices and taxes for our fuel, there is no such thing as affordable housing, and the list goes on and on while our governor (Captain Moonbeam Brown) spends millions on a train going nowhere.
Now I know why they call California the land of fruits and nuts.
Alan Martyn
Los Osos
This article appears in Autumn Arts Annual 2018.
if you don’t want any regulations then maybe you should move to a barbaric third world cesspool like the tribal hinterlands of eastern Pakistan or perhaps Sinaloa State in northern Mexico, where the only law is that of the strong over the weak. A place where men with guns prowl a ruined land, looking for plunder & victims to terrorize, rape & kidnap for ransom. Think of it Alan, guys like you would love to live in a failed state where chaos, destruction, torture, corruption & brutality are the norm. You wouldn’t have to worry about any federal regulations established to protect air quality, drinking water or endangered species. You could revel in a world without the rule of law & enjoy your anarcho-libertarian dystopia every day.