Welfare pimp alert! The Sacramento Bee reports that all the usual suspects have turned out to oppose the secession of the San Fernando Valley from the City of Los Angeles. While usually phrased in some sort of ethereal verbiage about the greater community, one of the players did not study the script and blurted out:

"The drainage of people is the drainage of funds, and the chief victims of drainage are the impoverished."

I guess the paradigm is a "greater community" to tax, local control to spend the loot.