"The state of California is going broke from overspending, and our vaunted legislature is wasting hours and hours debating parking regulations for ice cream trucks."
 Well, that's it, TK.   Right there.   You see, they have no clue (and this certainly applies not only to California, but elsewhere AND nationally) about what to do about our most pressing problems, e.g. the price of energy, affordable health care and medicine-especially for seniors, education, our social problems.   When the current session of the Legislature ends, they can point to the ice cream truck regulations to prove that they actually did something.
Re- Schwarznegger: spending until the cows come home to make problems go away.  Gee, that sounds so... so Jimmy Carter!  😛