Detroit revisited

Occasionally, very occasionally, the LATimes produces good work  There was the series a couple of years ago about the failed hospital in south L.A., and now a piece on the California Teachers Association and its lobbyist Nunoz.  If one wants to know the depth and seriousness of the economic woes in California, one needs go no further than this article..  It tells it all.  What we have here is Detroit revisited, and we will, in due course, have the same end result.  Unions and their excessive demands caused Detroit's ultimate demise.  Yes, there was the issue of the failure of management to deal with the unions in an effective way, a fact that cannot be overlooked.  But, in the end, the compulsion of unions to keep bringing home the bacon for their members by always increasing wages and benefits, and by always adding to restrictive workplace rules and regulations, is the overriding reason Detroit shrank in population from several millions to its current 400,000,  from a thriving metropolis to a basket case, failed city that is bankrupt.