IN THE 1992 campaign for US President, candidate Ross Perot warned that if the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passed, the country would hear what he called “a giant sucking sound”. He referred to the loss of US jobs that he predicted would be “sucked” across the Mexican border to be filled by lower-paid workers. Perot didn’t win the election, NAFTA passed and the sucking sound, if it occurred, was drowned out by the go-go nineties and a booming stock market.
But there’s another sucking sound in the making, this time courtesy of the voters of California. In the last election, the good people of…
