California govt workers watch man die

  This is what happens when everything is scripted, when everything is regulated and when large government takes over the lives of everyone. No one can make a decision. No one can make a move without getting permission first. A long chain of deciders needs to be consulted before anything can be done and, of course,there's a long line of people waiting to hear what the deciders have determined, perhaps after endless meetings, consults, phone calls and emails.
  This time, it's the firemen who refused to go into waist deep water to save a drowning man. Read at the NY Post:

The fire department blamed budget cuts that ended sea-rescue training in 2009; department policy explicitly forbade them from saving Zack’s life. And so they followed the city’s corrupt order.

  This is the face of the nanny state.