The following is an excerpt from The Newsom Nightmare: The California Catastrophe and How to Reform Our Broken System.
President Biden promised his administration would look more like America, but it looks a lot more like California. Kamala Harris is the vice president, thus proving the Peter Principle is alive and well in the Democratic Party. Californians are in charge of the Treasury, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Energy. Several UC Berkeley graduates are part of Biden’s team. Berkeley has been the country’s ultra-liberal flagbearer since the ’60s. Radical ideas that began in ivory towers on the Left Coast have made their way into the White House. Dubbed “The West Coast Avengers,” these Californians are already shaping national policy.
President Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan has been called “Making America California Again.” Originally slated to cost $3.5 trillion, the bill’s final version was trimmed to $1.2 trillion. It’s now been implemented partially in the Orwellian titled “Inflation Reduction Act,” which doesn’t do anything about inflation but make it worse and hardly does anything about the world’s pollution problem except lard on added costs to Americans while letting the Chinese and Indians off the hook.
Biden’s Build Back Better Plan/Inflation Reduction Act reads like a Left Coast wish list: implementing the Green New Deal, raising the minimum wage to $15, and expanding family paid leave. It’s no surprise that California was the big winner: The federal government will spend more money in California than in any other
