I think you are both about right, really. California has made it's own unsolvable problems and really rather enjoyed bragging that the whole way - they are just at the inevitable now with the way they have been doing things.
California does make it so a business has to struggle and crawl but a pile of worthless bum runs the place. They totally get what they deserve on that and more to come....
Texas is better for most intents and purposes, but hopefully they will keep up the "Jack be nimble.." or at least prepare for damage control, because though I have a poor grasp of finance it seems to me that there is another big boom looming that could happen at any time - or in six months, or a year, but it too seems inevitable.
So who knows how the cookie will crumble exactly? But it is right now and will continue to crumble - of that I am more certain. I am also more certain that the Texans can handle such a scenario much better than the Californians owing to their ability for simple survival which the majority of Californians no longer possess.
Guess we will not have to wait long to find out.....
"The perfect way to do, is to be" ~ Lao Tzu