TIM CAVANAUGH: “Job growth, despite our leadership’s best efforts, can only follow business growth, so the pickup in jobs will be different throughout the country – with Texas vs. California giving the starkest and most popular contrast between growth and stagnation. The question isn’t why we have ghost towns but why we don’t have more of them. . . . My sense of justice and order in the universe tells me Los Angeles should become America’s next ghost town, but I have a terrible feeling that won’t happen.”