I think Californians are the front-runners in the US for “I got mine, it doesn’t matter how or who I hurt to get it, but if you try it it’s wrong”-ism, or, as my Aunt Rose would say “Me me my my people.” It’s starting to bite them in the ass now, though. Here’s an interesting bit of research from one of my favorite housing blogs:

Today’s news from California made me curious about bankruptcy filings, so I did a little research here: http://www.uscourts.gov/bnkrpctystats/bankruptcystats.htm. In the 9th District (which includes pretty much the whole west coast) recorded 31,124 business and non-business filings for BK in April, May, and June of 2007. For the same period in 2006, 20,404 filings were recorded. This is a 53% jump