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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

— George W. Bush

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

— Kenneth Lay

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

— Gray Davis

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

— Meg Whitman

Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

— Doug Ose

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

— Carly Fiorina

This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.

— Jim McKelvey

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

— Jim DeMint

Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

— Carly Fiorina

✗Opposing Perspectives

There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.

— Gray Davis