Yeah, I'm not sure where that one came from.

Seriously, though...perhaps California's government is a good argument for the republican (small 'r') form of government rather than a direct democracy. Our current form of mob rule has >=75% of the State's budget as mandatory spending through State constitutional amendments, meaning that our legislators get to play with smaller pieces of the pie. Result? Hope you don't like roads, higher education and all the other stuff that built Californian prosperity.