The Myth of a California Renaissance | National Review Online-Victor Davis Hanson

"Ensuring foreign nationals minimum parity with U.S. citizens requires huge state inputs in education, law enforcement, and health services. The 2012 census listed California as having the highest poverty level (23.5 percent) of any state in the union. A state with roughly 12 percent of the U.S. population is now home to 33 percent of the nation’s welfare recipients."