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I love my hometown… « Public Secrets says:

November 1, 2009 at 11:40 am

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Bill says:

November 1, 2009 at 12:26 pm

California is nothing more than a window into the future of the rest of this nation. When liberals take over the government and force socialism on the population the result is economic meltdown.

I’m often just amazed at how unintellectual so call intellectual liberals are. Even a moron can figure out people aren’t going to spend more and work harder to produce more if you leave them less money to spend for doing so.

Personally, I think California should be allowed to completely collapse economically as a monument to socialism and as a warning to the rest of the nation of the complete failure of the socialist economic welfare system, which we seem to be adopting at break-neck speed in this country.
Xrlq says:

November 1, 2009 at 1:39 pm

The Legislature bears its share of responsibility, but so too does the electorate for enacting Prop 98, which forces education spending to ratchet up skyward whenever revenue is up, and bars the Legislature from cutting it back when it is not. Together with the 2/3 majority requirement for passing budgets, Prop 13 (which guarantees a free ride for those who’ve lived in their houses since the 1970s, and a correspondingly high tax burden for those who have not) make the state ungovernable.
Carlos says:

November 1, 2009 at 1:41 pm

And as is typical, fleeing Californicators will bring their special bleeding hearts (and empty minds) to surrounding states to make them the utopias they’ve already made of California. They just seem to have an inability to see that accepting unpaying fellow “citizens” leads to bankruptcy, as does increasing welfare roles with government workers (who, for the most part, perform simple makeshift work oppressive to the producers).

I’ve not seen anything but the promos for the new ABC series “V”, but they sound eerily like what’s coming out of D.C. (and Sacramento). Might be worth a watch this season, until Hollyweird P.C. writers somehow turn it into a show that blames all conservatives for the woes the aliens visit upon humanity.
Louise says:

November 1, 2009 at 2:41 pm

Weird. Last time I looked, a Republican was governator of California, not a “godless, spending liberal.” So how come the liberals get blamed for what’s going on? California is screwed, no matter what. I’m seriously planning on leaving the state. Too crowded, too expensive, too much of everything that contradicts the pursuit of happiness.
Carlos says:

November 1, 2009 at 7:38 pm

Louise, just how is Guvnor S any different from any other Democrat? He has no set, unyielding political principals and he spends just the same. I’m convinced he registered as a Republican just so he could run against Governor Gray (who wouldn’t have won in a race with a baboon – oh, wait…)

That said, just like the feds, the legislature is the one who passes budgets, not the guvnor; all he can do is sign them into law or veto them. Another sign the guvnor is really a donkey.

And, if you were paying attention, it’s been a long time since I saw the claim that signing up as a “Republican” automatically made one a fiscal conservative. As proof, I offer you the Republican side of our national Congress.
Ron Russell says:

November 1, 2009 at 10:26 pm

Its simply amazing how politicians will always find a way to get more money in the bank for the state. How do these crazy people keep getting re-elected when they continue to screw the people. Some voters just might like that feeling. I now there are a lot of sicko’s in the not so “Golden state” but this is nuts.
Jo says:

November 2, 2009 at 8:18 am

Bill said it all–the liberal lunacy (and Ah-nold is no true Republican if there are even any of those left, pardon the pun) now occurring in Caly-fornia is destined to spread across this once great nation under the liberal, Socialist, radical lunatic reign of terror called the Obama Administration. God help us all. Oh wait–that’s quite discriminatory and non-embracing of me. Let me change that (change being the magic word of the day): Oh Great Unproven Supreme Alleged Creator of the Universe, please help us!
Annoying Old Guy says:

November 2, 2009 at 9:17 am

Let’s remember that Schwarzenegger was actually trying for fiscal sanity until the voters told him “cut that out!” in 2004. That’s when he went squishy and for better reason than most.

None of the union spending or gerrymandered districts would work if the voters really objected to what the legislature is doing. I predict that this extra withholding will make effectively no difference in the next set of elections in CA.
Great White Rat says:

November 2, 2009 at 10:51 am

Related to this, a good column in (of all places) the Los Angeles Times comparing low-tax Texas with high-tax California.

Summary of the article: neither state does a great job of providing services, but Texas does it better on less money than California. The reason: they focus more on what the taxpayers need. One example from the column:

Texas not only spends its citizens’ dollars more effectively than California but emphasizes priorities that are more broadly beneficial. Per capita spending on transportation was 5.9% lower in California, and highway expenditures in particular were 9.5% lower, a discovery both plausible and infuriating to any Los Angeles commuter losing the will to live while sitting in yet another freeway traffic jam.

So who does benefit from the high taxes Californians pay? You guessed it: public employee unions.

the latest posting on the website of the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility shows 9,223 former civil servants and educators receiving pensions worth more than $100,000 a year from California’s public retirement funds.

Which is why people are leaving states like CA, NY, MA, and NJ and heading to states like Texas. Unfortunately, as Carlos noted, many of them are economically illiterate libs who will promptly vote for the same policies in the new state that ruined their old states.
Carlos says:

November 3, 2009 at 11:55 am

Sometime, somewhere down the road, the socialists will drop all pretenses, take possession of all wages, then dole worthless money out at the end of the year (or whenever they get around to it). And they won’t have to pony up on the campaign trail with their droll “for the little guy” act ever again, because there won’t be any more campaigns where actual votes are needed.

If libs/leftists/socialists really wanted their “victims” to have pride and dignity they’d find a way to let them earn it, instead of scheming every way they could to steal more of our money.

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