sdrealtor, I hope you are right but the data says otherwise. You have been given numbers to show the influence of DoD related jobs in San Diego. Same with state/county/city jobs.
And other industries, tourists don’t just pick up in correlation to the decline in defense jobs. For all you know, they could even be positively correlated.
We are close to 20 years after 1993; A whole new generation has replaced those who suffered those times, which means assuming they are not any more stupider or smarter, the chances of them repeating the same mistakes are very high.