... then the contrapositive must be true as well:
"The purpose of a system cannot be what it doesn't do."
Roads
Keeping with the recent theme of what San Diego systems in particular and California systems in general are designed to do, let's look at a few more examples. Below is a map of an area I have traveled hundreds of times.
The Friars Road / Sea World Drive intersection has been closed for about 6 years. There has been some kind of construction allegedly taking place on the section of Friars underneath the I-5 freeway.
6 years.
San Diego is wealthy. California is wealthy. The weather here is utterly perfect for construction projects.
6 years.
It would be hard to make the case that the primary purpose of the City of San Diego is to maintain its roads. That cannot be true because the roads are not promptly and properly maintained despite mountains of money being spent.
Similarly, there is "road construction" going on in many places in San Diego where I drive. The orange cones are up, lanes are blocked, cement barricades are in place, but there is no work being done. No workers, no vehicles, no staging of materials, nothing. If any is present, it is minimal.
Education
California spends about $25,000 per student, an amount that is 30% higher than it was in 2020. We place near the top in terms of spending. Only 29% of our 4th graders are proficient at reading. We place near the bottom in that category.
Whatever its purpose might be, educating our children is not the primary purpose of the California Department of Education.
Looting
One could make a reasonable argument that the purpose of the state and city governments in California is to loot the citizens.
This is no longer surprising to me:
Almost 200 FRAUDULENT HOSPICE & HEALTHCARE agencies in one single building in Los Angeles, California...
— The SCIF (@TheSCIF) March 31, 2026
I've never seen so much fraud like we are uncovering now, in my entire life.
This has got to stop now. pic.twitter.com/lHuZjibK2j
I agree with you that California is absolutely rife with fraud. Given that we know the problem, the question now becomes: Who is getting the money?
ReplyDeleteBillions of dollars don't just vanish. Somebody is getting filthy rich, and if they are going to get any benefit from it, it is very hard to hide. These people need to be heavily fined and sent to jail, but it won't happen if nobody identifies them and makes it happen.