Second thoughts, eh? They’re very useful … when pandering politicians sense that the winds have changed. And they are all the more remarkable when first thoughts should have sufficed to deduce the obvious.
Case in point: Gavin Newsom, who has run California into the ground in every way imaginable, but especially on fiscal stability. Despite years of budget crises created by foolish spending and self-imposed drags on economic growth, Newsom and the state legislature decided to give illegal aliens access to free Medicaid coverage. Newsom insisted that the move would save Californians money by allowing illegal immigrants to see doctors rather than wait for ER visits, an argument used and proven false in the ObamaCare debate a decade earlier.
And it got proven false again in California. Two months ago, California reported a massive Medi-Cal shortfall less…
