Adam Carolla illustrates the stark contrast between California government's regulations and how they 'require nothing of themselves but everything of you':
"They have a foundation that could handle a 10.0 earthquake, a tsunami, whatever it was. And so that's what the city requires of them.
Directly in front of that home where the guy put 3 million bucks into the foundation is a 100 year old telephone pole with a bunch of wires strung across it. That in a windstorm is going to fall over and catch the guy's house on fire. That's the city's job. 
That's what they require. They require nothing of themselves. Everything of you."

California's state motto should be 'Rules for thee, not for me'