Is California really worth it?


I read in the current American Prospect an intriguing and disquieting article by David L. Kirp and Marshall S. Smith detailing the qualitative decline of California's public schools since Proposition 13's passage back in 1978.
A third of the schools are in physically "poor condition" per a report by Robert Corley and the state ranks 49th in the nation in the teacher to student ratio. California's score on the National Assessment of Educational Progress indicate the their students are performing considerably below the national average in mathematics, science, and reading.
Spending per pupil is at an all time low as well...on a par with the Great State of Mississippi.
Faced with a potential educational catastrophe the voters and politicians have risen up with a revolutionary program; the installation a semi literate body-builder as governor, cutting taxes, importing more guest knowledge workers from India, and running the Mexican migrants out at the point of a bayonet.
So I ask you all...
It's gonna cost someone billions of dollars to fix California.
Now that Schwarzenegger is Governor it's for damn sure the Golden State's citizenry ISN'T gonna pay for any of this....
So why should Arnold be allowed to go to DC with a tin cup gripped in his meaty steroidal paw?
Why should anyone in equally cash strapped states be asked to shoulder the fiscal burdens of California's famously self pitying electorate?
Just because Arnie is pals with the President??
Wouldn't it be cheaper just to sell the joint back to Mexico or get the U.N. to hold an autonomy plebiscite?
Okay granted it's the sixth largest economy in the Universe, but it's still limping around the national neighborhood wailing and begging for alms...our sympathies are being taxed to the limit in other parts of the Federal Union.
I mean who needs to listen to this noise?
And sooner or later the pending catastrophes in education,quality of life and the budget will cause California to revert to the barbarous status of Bosnia.
We've all had a good run with California as the land of myth, movies and opportunity but the writing is on the wall, time for the other forty nine states to cut their losses with dignity.
It was great for awhile but now the whole shit house is looking gaunt and needy....with a scary thousand yard stare as well.
Is there a constitutional mechanism by which the U.S. can ditch a poorly performing state?
THAT would put Louisiana and the Northeast Kingdom on notice!!!!
If not we need to create one.
Let us say California struck for independence, they'd still have to maintain all sorts of ties with the U.S.A. for economic and national defense purposes.
We have to look at this as a paying proposition all around I think.
Hell, we could probably force Sacramento to pay for part of the upkeep on the San Diego Navy Base!
There are all sorts of advantages here...we could compel the California Free State to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty as a condition for full diplomatic recognition.
That'll shut the damn Arabs up about Israel's bomb!!
All the California liberals can quietly exit the state for Oregon and Washington, by 2010 those states will no doubt pick up vital electoral votes for the democratic party.
If we plan properly we can put in place a lucrative repatriation program for anyone who seriously wants out.
It'll be a boon for the New York Independent film scene I tells yuh.
The rump of the movie studios can set up shop in Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, granted the weather is lousy but the scenery!!!
With any luck we can force California to keep Jay Leno....that groveling bastard can cringe behind stacked sand bags for all I care.

Arnold can finally realize his dream of being President of someplace as long as it is far far away from me.
So it's a win-win situation in my books.