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.

As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.

I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

World needs a new order of modern economy.